Easy tunes?

[ladydetemps]

okay....I need cheering up just keep coming up against musical brick walls. Anyone know any 'Easy' tunes I can play on the melodeon?

[Lester]

Hows about

X: 1
T:You Are My Sunshine
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:G
D G A| B2 B2-| B B A B| G2 G2-| G G A B| c2 e2-| e e d c| B4-| B G A B|
c2 e2-| e e d c| B2 G2-| G z G A| B3 c| A A2 B| G4-| G||

So easy you can play it on either end of the box 

[Ollie]

Captain Lanoe's (Larno's) Quick March - http://www.folktunefinder.com/tunes/80636/

Jamaica - http://www.folktunefinder.com/tunes/75645/

[ladydetemps]

Hows about

X: 1
T:You Are My Sunshine
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:G
D G A| B2 B2-| B B A B| G2 G2-| G G A B| c2 e2-| e e d c| B4-| B G A B|
c2 e2-| e e d c| B2 G2-| G z G A| B3 c| A A2 B| G4-| G||

So easy you can play it on either end of the box  

You know you've just given me an idea....my sister plays a woodie guthrie tune 'this land is my land' on guitar and I always think it sounds like you are my sunshine and sing it which annoys her. lol! Now I'll play it on melodeon...even better.  

Not sure what irritates her though it being a different tune or that my singing sounds like a cat in a mangle.

[oompahman]

hi sarah;
how about

1.Wooden Heart(old Elvis song).2.donkey riding.

mike.

[ladydetemps]

Not heard of the Elvis one before.

[oompahman]

there appears to a couple of versions on youtube.just had a quick look at one-might help.

ps;there is even a concertina in the clip!.must dash-off to session(my turn to drive).
mike.

[george garside]

the tune for wooden heart is  an old German folk song Muss ich Denn.  There are many songs that reuse old traditional tunes  eg  The Road to the Isles is the name of the song not the tune , the tune being the Burning Sands of Egypt.

george

[ladydetemps]

erm...so what do you think?
U R my Sunshine
http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=14629

[old geezer]

great , sounds really good.

(you may have to alter your: Signature: "Playing all the right notes...in the erm....wrong order....") 

[ladydetemps]

great , sounds really good.

thank you. :)

[D]

Fiddler's Green, These Are My Mountains? Fairly easy on a harmonica anyway. I'll soon discover if easy or not on a melodeon as I've acquired an old Hohner.

Dave

[GuyWyatt]

There is no wrong order

"I was only following the order" is (apparently) no excuse.

[Chris Ryall]

There is no wrong order

"I was only following the order" is (apparently) no excuse.

Indeed. The Ghestapo didn't play accordion (at least when on duty). Which reminds me - Deutschland über alles is another nice tune in chords (which means you play the chords and cross the rows). 

[Lester]

The Gestapo didn't play accordion (at least when on duty).

Were the Liliput/Presciosa not specially made for the military?

Which reminds me - Deutschland über alles is another nice tune in chords (which means you play the chords and cross the rows). 

In these more politically correct days the tune is called Das Deutschlandlied (The Song of Germany)

[ladydetemps]

great , sounds really good.

(you may have to alter your: Signature: "Playing all the right notes...in the erm....wrong order....") 

There is no wrong order 

of corse there's a wrong order...its called a different tune. Derrr.....

Fiddler's Green, These Are My Mountains? Fairly easy on a harmonica anyway. I'll soon discover if easy or not on a melodeon as I've acquired an old Hohner.

Don't think the 2nd one would be appropriate for me. Slightly double entendre.

[old geezer]

The Gestapo didn't play accordion (at least when on duty).

Were the Liliput/Presciosa not specially made for the military?

Which reminds me - Deutschland über alles is another nice tune in chords (which means you play the chords and cross the rows). 

In these more politically correct days the tune is called Das Deutschlandlied (The Song of Germany)

I've been told the Bb tuned were specifically for playing with the brass

[Chris Ryall]

The Gestapo didn't play accordion (at least when on duty).

Were the Liliput/Presciosa not specially made for the military?

I won't argue - my comment above was pure rhetoric

Which reminds me - Deutschland über alles is another nice tune in chords

In these more politically correct days the tune is called Das Deutschlandlied (The Song of Germany)

.... and what do they sing to it?  

 ... .. Thanks Lester. Not spotted that change at all. So  God Save the Queen next to go politically correct? 

[Lester]

Which reminds me - Deutschland über alles is another nice tune in chords

In these more politically correct days the tune is called Das Deutschlandlied (The Song of Germany)

.... and what do they sing to it?  

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland!
Danach lasst uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand;
 |: Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes,
  Blühe, deutsches Vaterland. :|

or to you:

Unity and justice and freedom
For the German fatherland!
For these let us all strive
Brotherly with heart and hand!
Unity and justice and freedom
Are the pledge of fortune;
 |: Flourish in this fortune's blessing,
  Flourish, German fatherland. :|

This is the original 3rd stanza. The rest was officially dropped in 1990.

[Ebor_fiddler]

The tune, of course, is "The Emperor Of Austria's Hymn" by Papa Joseph Haydn. By the bye, aren't we just a bit risking trespassing onto "Thread drift" here? I'd hate us to get banned by an over zealous censor (what fun though)!