Help identifying tune, please

[Mikefule]

Hi, all,

 

My stepdad found this among my late mum's papers.  She had saved it since 1998, and it is written in his hand, but he cannot remember it.  It's certainly not his own composition.  Seems to be some sort of folky waltz, although it could be the melody of a song or even a theme tune from a TV show?

 

My stepdad is 91 years old, and grieving the recent loss of the woman he loved since 1956, so he feels he needs to know what this tune is so he can understand why it was important to her.

 

Any clues, anyone?

 

Thanks

 

 

Edited March 8 by Mikefule

[Robin Harrison]

This a sweet, sweet story, Mike........hope it works out.

Robin

[RAc]

I just ran the melody through folktunefinder.com and waded through the 51 pages of hits it gave me when filtering for waltzes... to no success. Yet the search engine on that site, although a nice try, is not very good, so the tune may still be buried somewhere there.

 

Best of luck!

 

[John Wild]

I typed it up in ABC and exported it as a midi file.

Perhaps listening to it here will give somebody a further clue.

Unnamed waltz.mid

[RAc]

1 minute ago, John Wild said:

I typed it up in ABC and exported it as a midi file.

Perhaps listening to it here will give somebody a further clue.

Unnamed waltz.mid 1.01 kB · 0 downloads

That sounds like the perfect hew pet project for @Michael Eskin: Plough through an abc database to pattern match a tune... 😉

[John Wild]

This is the ABC. I forgot to paste it into my last post.

 

X:584
T:Unnamed waltz
S:https://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?/topic/29000-help-identifying-tune-please/#comment-244906
M:3/4
L:1/4
K:G
G3|G>AB|D3|DGB|cBc|cde|
d2B|A3|G3|G>AB|D2G|B>cd|
e2d|B>AG|A3-|A3||B>AG|G>AB|
D3|DGB|cBc|cde|d3-|d3|
B2d|cde|d2B|A3|F2G|A2G|
F2E|D3||G3|G>AB|DGB|d2B|
c2d|B2d|e2e|d3|B3|B>AG|
B2G|D3|DdB|A2G|G3-|G3||

[Michael Eskin]

I got nothing. Doesn't appear to be on thesession.org

[Mikefule]

Thank you everyone for trying.  I appreciate your efforts.