Harmonica TABS for My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean for a Tremolo Harmonica with 16 Holes/32 Tones

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Here are some more Tabs for the tremolo players out there, only this time for those of you who play the 16 hole/ 32 Tone variety.
Some of you may have noticed by now that I have been taking a break from my usual style and format for my tutorials. It's not a conspiracy, it's just that lately I haven't had much time to spend on content, because I still work for a living. So making these helps me to help you and me at the same time. I will be making more of the same old tutorials eventually as my schedule allows! Please let me know if these TABS videos are useful though, I'd really like to know!
"My Bonnie lies over the ocean" is a traditional Scottish folk song that remains popular in Western culture.
Although the song's origin is uncertain, its original subject could possibly be Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie'):[1] after the defeat of the Prince at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and his subsequent exile, his Jacobite supporters could have sung this song or one like it in his honour; and thanks to the ambiguity of the term "Bonnie", which can refer to a woman as well as to a man, they could pretend it was a love song.
The English traditional singing group The Watersons, on their 1975 album "For Pence and Spicy Ale" sing a song from the English tradition called "My Barney Lies over the Ocean" which has a slightly different melody and is said to be an antecedent. In the liner notes for the song, the musicologist A. L. Lloyd says about "My Barney": "A stage song favoured by Irish comedians from the 1860s on. During the 1880s, apparently on American university campuses, close harmony groups remade it into the better-known—and even more preposterous[clarification needed]—'My Bonny Lies over the Ocean'. Watersons had this from Bob Davenport who learnt it from a Frank Quinn 78."[2]
In 1881, under the duo of pseudonyms H.J. Fuller and J.T. Wood, Charles E. Pratt published sheet music for "Bring Back My Bonnie to Me".[3][4][5] Theodore Raph in his 1964 book American Song Treasury: 100 Favorites, writes that people were requesting the song at sheet music stores in the 1870s, and Pratt was convinced to publish a version of it under the pseudonyms, and the song became a big hit, especially popular with college singing groups but also popular for all group singing situations... for more details check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bonnie_Lies_over_the_Ocean
Ocean photo taken by Pawel Nolbert on UnSplash https://unsplash.com/@hellocolor

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