Deck the Halls: notes for 9 instruments
“Deck the hall with boughs of holly…” 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 · F majorC4–D5 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorG4–A5 Medium
- RecorderLetters · F majorC4–D5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorG4–A5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · C majorG4–A5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)G3–A4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · F major (written)C4–D5 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · G major (written)D4–E5 Medium
- HarmonicaTabs · C majorG4–A5 Medium
Not on bells & xylophone: no key keeps every note on that instrument without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la la!
'Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la la!
Don we now our gay apparel, Troll the ancient Christmas carol,
Fa la la la la la la la la!
About this song
- Melody
- Welsh air (“Nos Galan”), 1794
- Words
- Thomas Oliphant (1799–1879), 1862 (first verse shown)
- Public domain
- Melody 1794, words 1862: first published before 1931.
- Source
- Franklin Square Song Collection (Harper & Brothers, 1881), p. 120, “Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly” (1881)