X: 40
T: the Lover's Waltz   [G]
C: Molly Mason & Jay Ungar 1985, \2511992
R: waltz
B:"The Waltz Book", Bill Matthiesen.
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
Z: ABC by Mary Lou Knack, modified by John Chambers
K: G
DGB\
|| "G"d3 dBG | "C"E3 DCB, |  "G"D6-    |     D3 DGB \
|     d3 dBG | "C"E3 DCB, | "Am"D6-    | "D7"D3 DEG |
| "Am"A3 GAB | "C"AG3 ED  |  "G"D6-    |     D3 DEG \
| "C"A3 GAB  | "Am"AG3    ED | "D"d4-   de   |    d4 GF |]
| "G"G4  GF   | "Am"G4    GF | "G/B"G3G GF   | "C"G2 c3B \
| "G"G4  GF   | "Em"G4    ED | "Am"E4- ED/E/ |"D7"D4 GF |
| "C"E3 FG2   |  "D"F2 G2 A2 | "Em"B3  cBA   |    G4 GF \
| "C"E2 F2 G2 | "D7"A2 G3  F | "G, (C)"G6-   | "G"G3 |]
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%% "Molly and I wrote this tune in 1985, when we were first together.  It was a
%% spontaneous composition -- where I started playing melody and she played chords, and both
%% the chords and melody evolved as we played it.  We'd played it at home together.  But it
%% was too personal to play for other people -- I felt the same way about 'Ashokan Farewell'
%% at first.  You know, you're not sure if people will like it.  Eventually, we played it
%% at a late night waltz session at Ashokan.  It seemed like the right moment for the tune
%% to emerge.  We originally wrote it in the key of G.  But the melody only uses three
%% strings on the fiddle, and in G you never touch the E string.  Usually, if a tune only
%% uses three strings, I go for the higher strings.  So that is why it's notated here in D.
%% Sometimes we play it in both G and D, to get the full range.  The other thing I do, if
%% I'm playing it in G, is play the B part an octave higher the second time through, to get
%% a different sonority."  Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, RD 1 Box 489, West Hurley, NY 12491.
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