How to Play A Miner's Lullaby on the 6 Hole Ocarina

About A Miner’s Lullaby

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A Miner’s Lullaby, better known as Coorie Doon, is a Scottish song written by the Glasgow folk singer Matt McGinn, who died in 1977. The words are broad Scots: a mining family settling a child to sleep while the father works a three-foot coal seam far below ground. Coorie doon means to snuggle down, and a wean is a small child, dialect that roots the song in the pit villages of central Scotland rather than any older tradition.

For the ocarina it asks a little more than a first tune. The melody climbs to a high E and drops to low C, so you cover a wide stretch of the instrument in a single phrase. Watch the Bb near the end, which needs a cross-fingering rather than a plain hole pattern.

A Miner’s Lullaby Ocarina Tab

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