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Star of the County Down Ukulele Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
—
Key
Am
Time
4/4
Tempo
108 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
E4

Star of the County Down 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.

Tuning: g C E A (re-entrant High G) · Strum: D - DU - DU

AECgVerseAm00Am00000CG00202Am02000AECgG000Am00000CG00202AmG02000AECgAm001ChorusC00020G22202Am02000AECgG000Am00000CG00202AmG02000Am0

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 — Near to Banbridge town in the County Down

Bar 4 — one morning in July

Bar 6 — down a boreen green came a sweet colleen

Bar 8 — and she smiled as she passed me by

Bar 10 — Oh from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay

Bar 12 — and from Galway to Dublin town

Bar 14 — no maid I've seen like the sweet colleen

Bar 16 — that I met in the County Down

Trad. Irish air — public domain.

How to practise this on ukulele

Star of the County Down 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 108 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 72 notes across 17 bars, from E3 up to G4 in 4/4 time.

Also playable on

The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Star of the County Down cross-instrument hub.

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