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The Parting Glass Ukulele Tab
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- Am
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 88 BPM
- Difficulty
- Easy · ★★
- First note
- E4
The Parting Glass on ukulele
The full melody, rendered as four-string ukulele tab in re-entrant High-G (gCEA) you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.
Notes marked with a dot are folded up an octave to sit in the ukulele’s range — the app arranges them the same way.
Arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G (gCEA) ukulele. On Low G, Baritone or D tuning the app re-fingers the same melody live. Left-handed? The app can mirror the whole tab.
Lyrics
Bar 1 — Of all the money that e'er I had
Bar 4 — I spent it in good company
Bar 6 — and all the harm that e'er I've done
Bar 8 — alas it was to none but me
Bar 10 — So fill to me the parting glass
Bar 12 — and drink a health whate'er befalls
Bar 14 — then gently rise and softly call
Bar 16 — good night and joy be to you all
Trad. Irish/Scottish, 17th c. — public domain.
How to practise this on ukulele
The Parting Glass is in Am and opens on E4. This tab is arranged for the standard re-entrant High-G ukulele: the fourth string (the top of the written tab, marked g) is tuned above the two strings under it, which is why a melody can dip onto the open g and come out sounding high — that's the instrument's signature, not a misprint. If you play Low G, the app re-fingers the same melody for your tuning live.
Pick the melody with alternating thumb and index, or the index alone on slower pieces, and keep your fretting fingers curled so open strings ring clear. Set the metronome under around 88 BPM, watch the tab rather than your hands, and loop the bar your take review grades worst until it comes back clean twice in a row. By the numbers, this setting runs 103 notes across 17 bars, from G3 up to C5 in 4/4 time.
Also playable on
The same melody is graded across 7 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the The Parting Glass cross-instrument hub.
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