Aura Lee: notes for 10 instruments
“As the blackbird in the spring…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.
- PianoLetters · C majorC4–B4 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorC4–B4 Medium
- RecorderLetters · D majorD4–C♯5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorC5–B5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · G majorG4–F♯5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)C4–B4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · C major (written)C4–B4 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · D major (written)D4–C♯5 Medium
- Bells & XylophoneLetters · C majorC4–B4 Medium
- HarmonicaTabs · C majorC5–B5 Medium
Words (first verse)
As the blackbird in the spring, 'Neath the willow tree
Sat and pip'd, I heard him sing, Sing of Aura Lee.
Aura Lee! Aura Lee! Maid of golden hair!
Sunshine came along with thee, And swallows in the air.
About this song
- Melody
- George R. Poulton (1828–1867), 1861
- Words
- W. W. Fosdick (1825–1862), 1861 (first verse shown)
- Public domain
- Melody 1861, words 1861: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Heart Songs Dear to the American People (Chapple, 1909), p. 399, “Aura Lee” (1909)