Ashokan Farewell

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X: 36
T: Ashokan Farewell
I: Ashokan FarewellW-25Dwaltz
C: W-25
C: Jay Ungar  \2511983
M: 3/4
L: 1/4
Z: Transcribed to abc by Mary Lou Knack
R: waltz
K: D
A/c/| "D"d>c B/A/| "D/F#"F2 E/F/| "G"G>F E/D/| "Em"B, D> B,|\
      "D"A,DF| "Bm"Adf|1 "G"f>gf| "A7"e2:|2 "A7"Ace| "D"d2|]
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F/G/| "D"A>FD| "D7/F#"d2A| "G"B>cd| "D"A<FE|\
       F>ED| "Bm"B,2 G,| "A"A,3| "A7"A2 F/E/|
      "D"DFA| "C"=c3| "G"B>cd| "D"AFD|\
      A,DF| "Bm"AdF| "A7"E>DC| "D"D2|]
%%begintext ragged
%%"At the end of the third summer of Ashokan in '82, I was particularly feeling the
%%post-camp syndrome of finding it hard to return to what we mistakenly call the
%%'real world.'  I really missed the people and the joy of having music and dance
%%so much a part of my daily life.   Kind of like 'Brigadoon,' it's a world of its
%%own, separate from the rest of life.  And each summer when these things end, you
%%don't really know if it'll happen again.   So one morning I picked up my fiddle
%%and started playing the saddest lament I could come up with - as a way of saying
%%goodbye to that summer". Jay Ungar, RD 1 Box 489, West Hurley, NY 12491
%%
%%"Ashokan Farewell" is the 'goodbye' tune played at the end of each week of the
%%music and dance camp run by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, and holds emotional
%%memories for many who have enjoyed the Ashokan experience.   Fiddle Fever's
%%arrangement of "Ashokan Farewell" was the cornerstone for the soundtrack of the
%%celebrated PBS series, "The Civil War", (Electra/Nonesuch) which won a Grammy
%%award and was nominated for an Emmy.   It's also recorded on "Songs of the Civil
%%War" (Sony/CBS); on "Waltz of the Wind"; and on "The Best of Fiddle Fever"
%%(Flying Fish).
%%endtext
%%text 9/1/98.  From "The Waltz Book", Bill Matthiesen.
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