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Leave Her, Johnny: bass part

The bass part of Leave Her, Johnny in Em, from G2 to G3. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Answers on the bass of Sharp's chords, mostly a low G and D, rising to the G an octave up at the end of each "Leave her, Johnny, leave her".

Range
G2 to G3
Key
Em
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About Leave Her, Johnny

Words: traditional sea shanty (John Short's version, as noted by Cecil Sharp, 1914)

Tune: traditional sea shanty (John Short's version, as noted by Cecil Sharp, 1914)

Leave Her, Johnny is a homeward-bound shanty. Sailors usually sang it as the ship was coming into port, and the shantyman used it to say what the crew thought of the ship they were about to leave. Cecil Sharp put it among the capstan shanties, for steady work like marching round the capstan or working the pumps, and called this version the usual form of the tune. Our arrangement is read from his English Folk-Chanteys of 1914, as John Short of Watchet sang it, in E dorian as printed, on the harmony of Sharp's piano part. This is three verses for 2 to 4 singers, the soprano singing each grumble alone.

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