X:1
T:For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
C:Traditional
S:Traditional British-ending variant; common refrain checked against Franz Dorfer's public C-major PDF, page 1
F:https://www.franzdorfer.com/Noten/For%20He%20s%20a%20Jolly%20Good%20Fellow-C.pdf
Z:PlaySheet new close-position accompaniment; melody and lyric underlay restored
N:British ending: 'and so say all of us'. Final held note balances the pickup.
N:Reference uses the American ending; only the shared refrain is source-matched, transposed C to F with note values halved.
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=76
K:F
%%score { 1 | 2 }
V:1 clef=treble name="Melody"
V:2 clef=bass name="Left hand"
[V:1] !mf!F2 | A2 A A G A | B3 A2 A | G2 G G F G | A3 F2 F |
w: For he's a jol-ly good fel-low, for he's a jol-ly good fel-low, for
[V:2] !p!z2 | [A,,C,F,]3 [A,,C,F,]3 | [B,,D,F,]3 [A,,C,F,]3 | [C,E,G,]3 [C,E,G,]3 | [A,,C,F,]3 [A,,C,F,]3 |
[V:1] A2 A A G A | B3 !fermata!d2 d | c2 c B2 G | F4 |]
w: he's a jol-ly good fel-low, and so say all of us!
[V:2] [A,,C,F,]3 [A,,C,F,]3 | [B,,D,F,]3 [B,,D,F,]3 | [C,E,G,]3 [C,E,G,]3 | [A,,C,F,]4 |]