March Free Sheet Music: The Wild Rover (No Nay Never)
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🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀Happy March piano friends, the month when everyone turns a little bit Irish, raising a glass, singing the songs, and (if you're lucky) playing the piano. I don't know about you, but I need to have some fun to divert from this very dark winter!
So instead of offering a soft Irish ballad as I often do, this month I have arranged the rousing Irish pub song, The Wild Rover, also known as No, Nay, Never, one of the St. Patrick's Day clapping songs.
The Wild Rover is in 3/4 time, so your left hand will be playing a kind of ascending oompa-pa rhythm, while your right hand plays the melody.
There are many verses to The Wild Rover; you can find the lyrics online and keep repeating the song. Have everyone clap on measures 20 - 21 as marked, on beats 1 - 2 - 3 - 1.
I hope you enjoy playing The Wild Rover this month. And as the Irish say, "May your pockets be heavy, your heart be light, and may good luck pursue you each morning and night."
With love and music, Gaili
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