Colonel Bogey March
Created | Updated May 13, 2006
Colonel Bogey was first published in 1914 by Lieutenant F J Ricketts, alias Kenneth J Alford. Sheet-music sales of this very popular tune rose above a million copies in number. An article on this tune is available on the wikipedia.
Other tunes in this series can be found listed on the Toots of the Whistle page of the Guide.
This abc-rendition is transposed for the pennywhistle, tuned to the key of D. Copy and paste the abc-code, shown below, into your own text file and then process the file using the abc-tool of your choice. Free abc utilities are available that will convert the code to a MIDI file, to Adobe PostScript, and to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) suitable for printing the sheet music. As an alternative, it is possible to read the abc-code direct and play it on your favourite instrument.
X:11653021
T:Colonel Bogey
T:March
T:--h2g2 article A11653021--
L:1/8
S:Colonel Bogey March
S:Composed by Lt. F J Ricketts alias Kenneth J. Alford in 1914
C:Kenneth J. Alford
C:(Lt. F J Ricketts, 1881-1945)
N:pennywhistle, tinwhistle, tin, penny, whistle
N:flageolet, fipple, flute, feadog
Z:Transposed 20060509 by H2G2 U107221 for the pennywhistle keyed in D.
F:Colonel-Bogey-H2G2-A
M:C|
Q:1/2=120
K:D
"^Pennywhistle in D"
d2 z2 (c3 B) | A2 F2 D2 F2 | A2 (AB A2) (AB | A8) ||\
(A2 F) z z4 | z2 (F2 G2 A2 | f2) z2 f2 z2 |
d8 |(A2 F) z z4 | z2 (F2 G2 F2 | A2) z2 A2 z2 | G8 |\
(G2 E) z z4 | z2 (E2 F2 G2) |
(A2 F) z z4 | z2 (F2 ^G3 F) | (E2 A2) z2 F2 | (^G2 E2) z2 B2 |\
A8- | A2 AA A2 A2 | (a2 f) z z4 |
z2 (f2 g2 a2 | f'2) z2 f'2 z2 | d'8 | (a2 f) z z4 |\
z2 (f2 g2 f2 | a2) z2 a2 z2 | g8 |
(g2 e) z z4 | z2 (b2 c'2 b2) | (d'2 a2) z4 | z2 (a2 g2 f2) |\
(e2 b) z z2 d2 | (c2 a) z z2 c2 | d8- | d2 z2 z4 |]
