X: 25
T: Ashokan Farewell
I: Ashokan Farewell	W-25	D	waltz
C: Jay Ungar
%date: 1983
B: "The Waltz Book", Bill Matthiesen.
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 |] 
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.