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An Amazingly Accessible Annotated
Accompaniment Archive!
the NEMOFOTMAD CHORD BOOK
Contains the Chords for over 200 tunes in the Celtic and Old-time traditions

An easy to use display book, that lays flat, allowing several players to see the chord changes at the same time.
Now Spiral bound, with laminated covers, and index weight pages.
In alphabetical order and set in a 4.25"X5.5" easy-to-read format, clearly showing the chord changes for each tune.
Identifies the Key for each, as well as the type of tune it is (Reel, Hornpipe, Waltz, etc.)

Also includes

Key/Chord Transposition Chart
Standard Tunings for familiar instruments
Information on the rhythmic and construction differences of many types of tunes.
Alphabetical listing in categories (including Beginner's Tunes and favorite Medleys - see listings below)
Tune page blanks for additional tunes.

Backup musicians will find this an indispensable tool.
Good for anyone interested in playing traditional music.

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BEGINNER'S TUNES (12)

Flop-Eared Mule (A)(C)(D)
Girl I Left Behind Me (C)(G)
Golden Slippers (D)
Ida Red (D)
Liberty (C)( D)
Over the Waterfall (D)
Peek-a-Boo Waltz (D)
Road to Lisdoonvarne (Em)
Red Wing (G)
St. Anne's Reel (D)
Soldier's Joy (D)
Year of Jubilo (D)(G)

BREAKDOWNS and REELS (94)

Angeline the Baker (D)
Arkansas Traveler (D) (G)
Back Up and Push (C)
Banish Misfortune (D)
Barlow Knife (D)(G)
Bill Cheatham (A)(G)
Billy in the Lowground (C)
Blackberry Blossom (G)
Boil 'em Cabbage (G)
Cherokee Shuffle (A)(D)(G)
Chinese Breakdown (C)
Cindy (A)(E)
Cluck Old Hen (A)
Cooley's Reel (Em)
Cripple Creek (A)
Darlin' Nellie Grey (D)(G)
Devil's Dream (A)
Drowsy Maggie (Em)
Dubuque (D)
Ducks on the Mill Pond (D)
Dusty Miller (D)
Ebenezer (G)
Eighth of January (D)
Flop-Eared Mule (A)(C)(D)
Flowers of Edinburgh (G)
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (D)
Flying Cloud Cotillion (G)
Forked Deer (C)(D)
Frankenstein (Em)
Give the Fiddler a Dram (G)
Golden Slippers (D)
Gravel Walk (A)
Green Willis (D)
Grey Eagle (A)
Growling Old Man and Cackling Old Woman (A)
Hell Among the Yearlings (C)(D)
Hobart's Transformation (Am)
Ida Red(D)
I'm Too Young to Marry (D)
John Stenson's #2 (A)
June Apple (A)
Liberty (C)(D)
Liza Jane (A)
Love Won't You Marry Me? (C)(G)
Maid Behind the Bar (D)
Mason's Apron (A)(G)
Merry Blacksmith (D)
Mississippi Sawyer (D)
Miss McLeod's Reel (G)
Money Musk (A)
Morpeth Rant (D)
Nail That Catfish to a Tree (G) © 1973 Steve Rosen Used with permission.
Nelly Bly (A)(C)
Old French (D)
Old Joe Clark (A)
Overthe Waterfall (D)
Paddy on the Railroad (D)
Paddy on the Turnpike (G)(Gm)
Petronella (D)
Quince Dillon’s High D (D)
Ragtime Annie (C)(D)
Red-Haired Boy (A)
Red Wing (C)(G)
Reel du Montreal (D)
Ross’s Reel (F)
Sail Away Ladies (C)(G)
Sailor’s Hornpipe (D)(G)
St Anne’s Reel (D)
St. Paddy’s Day in the Morning (G)
Salamanca Reel (D)
Sally Gardens (G)
Sally Goodin’ (A)
Salt Creek (A)
Sandy River Belle (A)(D)(G)
Seneca Squaredance (D)(G)
Shady Grove (Am)
Ships Are Sailing (Em)
Soldier’s Joy (D)
Spootiskerry (G) © 1980 Samuel Ian Rothmar Burns - Used with permission.
Squirrel Heads and Gravy (G)
Stoney Point (G)
Swingin’ on the Gate (G)
Tam Lin (Glasgow Reel) (Am)(Dm)
Teetotalers Reel(G)
Temperance Reel (G)
Too Young to Marry (D)
Turkey in the Straw (C)(G)
West Fork Gals (D)
Whiskey Before Breakfast (D)
Willa Fjord (D) (syncopated)
Wind That Shakes the Barley (D)
Woodchopper's Reel (D)
Year of Jubilo (D)(G)
Yellow Rose of Texas (D)

HORNPIPES (20)

Blackberry Blossom (G)
Boys of Blue Hill (D)(Em)
Cuckoo's Nest (D
Durang's Hornpipe (D)
Fisher's Hornpipe (D)
Flowers of Edinburgh (G)
Galway Hornpipe (D)
Harvest Home (D)
Huckleberry Hornpipe (G)
Jennifer Felio's Hornpipe (G) © 2007 Jennifer Felio - Used with permission.
Off to California (G)
Old French (D)
(the) Otter's Holt (Bm)
Petronella (D)
Red-Haired Boy (A)
Rights of Man Hornpipe (Em)
Sailor’s Hornpipe (D)(G)
Ships Are Sailing (Em)
Soldier’s Joy (D)
Staten Island Hornpipe (D)

JIGS (39)

Apples in Winter (Em)
Bannish Misfortune (D)
Behind the Haystack (D)
Biddy of Sligo (D)
Blarney Pilgrim (D)
(the) Butterfly (Em) (slip jig)
Cherish the Ladies (D)
Coleraine (Am)
Connaught Man's Rambles (D)
Fair Jenny (D)
Father O'Flynn (D)
Fox Hunters' Jig (D)
Gallagher's Frolics (Em)
Gary Owen (C) (G)
Garret Barry's (G)
Haste to the Wedding (D)
Irish Washerwoman (D)
Kesh Jig (G)
Lanigan's Ball (Em)
Larry O'Gaff (G)
Leitrim Fancy (Em)
Love Won't You Marry Me? (C)(G)
Maggie Brown's Favorite (G)
Morrisson's Jig (Em)
Off She Goes (D)
Over the Moor to Maggie (G)
Pipe on the Hob (Am)
Road to Lisdoonvarne (Em)
Rocky Road to Dublin (Em)
St. Paddy’s Day in the Morning (G)
Smash the Windows (D)
Sunday is My Wedding Day (Em)
Swallowtail Jig (Em)
Tar Road to Sligo (D)
Ten Penny Bit (Am)
Tobin's Favorite (D)
Top of Cork Road (D)
Tripping Up the Stairs (D)
Trip to Sligo (Em)

MARCHES (11)

After the Battle of Aughrim (Em)
Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (D)
Girl I Left Behind Me (C)(G)
Lord Mayo (Am)
Morgan Magan (G)
the Return From Fingal (Em)
Rose Tree (D)
Scotland the Brave (G)
Under the Double Eagle (C)
White Cockade (G)
Yankee Doodle (D)

MISCELLANEOUS TUNES (22)

Anniversary Song (E7) dance tune
Bonaparte's Retreat (D) set dance
Colored Aristocracy (G) cakewalk tune
Crested Hens (Em) 3X Bouree
Dingle Regatta (G) 12/8 slide
Fiddler's Green (G) air, or song tune
I Don't Love Nobody (C) air, or song tune
King of the Fairies (Em) set dance
Morgan Magan (G) air, or song tune
Merrily Kiss The Quaker (G) slide
O'Keefe's Slide (Am) 12/8 slide
Pachelbel's Frolics (D) 2/2 air
the Parting Glass (D) air, or song tune
Rakes of Mallow (G) air, or song tune
Roslyn Castle (Em) slow reel
Sally Gardens (G) air, or song tune
Stirling Castle (D) strathspey
Whiskey in the Jar (C)(D)(G) air, or song tune
Wild Mountain Thyme (C)(D) air, or song tune
Wild Rose of the Mountain (A) air, or song tune
Wildwood Flower (C)(D)(G) air, or song tune
Willa Fjord (D) syncopated reel

POLKAS (6)

Ballydesmond Polkas (Am)
Ballyhoura Mountains (G)
Jenny Lind Polka (G)
John Ryan's Polka (D)
Scarteglen Polka (D)
Sweeney’s Polka (G))

RAGS (8)

Beaumont Rag (C)(F)(G)
Black Mountain Rag (A)
Dill Pickle Rag (G)
Levi Jackson Rag (G)
Peacock Rag (D)
Pig Ankle Rag (D)
Stone’s Rag (Lone Star Rag) (C)
Yellow Rose of Texas (D)

WALTZES (17)

Amazing Grace (D)
Carolan's Concerto (D)
Fanny Power (G)
Margaret's Waltz (G)
Midnight on The Water (D)
O’Carolan’s Concerto (D)
Peek-a-Boo Waltz (D)
Planxty Irwin (D)(G)
Rose of Sharon (G)
Rosin the Bow (D)
Seamus O'Brien (G)
Si Bheag, Si Mohr (D)
Southwind (G)
Star of the County Down (D)
Waltzing Mathilda (D)
Westphalia Waltz (G)

All tunes are in the public domain except where noted. (If you see any tune included that you know, or even suspect is *not* public domain, please let me know ASAP. I put a lot of effort into identifying tunes, but I am not infallible.)

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Last updated, 04/14/2008