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Traditional acoustic guitar styles
I'm trying to use audio in conjunction with tabs I've done to better explain playing traditional fingerstyle guitar.
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Peak #238
Peak in subgenre #71
Author
Traditional
Uploaded
November 09, 2005
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MP3 1.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
A lesson in the traditional tune as done by Mississippi John Hurt
Lyrics
(Copy to Notepad Courier New 10-Font)
CASEY JONES
Traditional
as recorded by Mississippi John Hurt, 1963
(On Rounder Records' "Mississippi John Hurt: Legend")
Casey Jones was a brave engineer,
he told his fireman not to fear
Says, "All I want's my water and my coal
Look out the window, see my drive wheel roll"
Early one mornin' came a shower of rain,
'round the curve I seen a passenger train
In the cabin was Casey Jones,
he's a noble engineer man but he's dead and gone
"Children, children, get your hat"
Mama, mama, what you mean by that?"
"Get your hat , put it on your head,
Go down in town, see if your daddy's dead"
"Mama, mama, how can it be?
My daddy got killed on the old I.C.1"
"Hush your mouth and hold your breath,
You're gonna draw a pension after your daddy's dead"
Casey's wife, she got the news,
She was sittin' on the bedside,
She was lacin' up her shoes
I said, "Go away, children, and hold your breath,
You're gonna draw a pension after your daddy's dead"
Casey said, before he died,
"Fix the blinds so the boys can't ride
If they ride, let 'em ride the rod,
trust they lives in the hands of God"
Casey said again, before he died,
"One more road that he wanted to ride."
People wondered what road could that be?
The Gulf Colorado and the Santa Fe
Casey Jones was a brave engineer,
he told his fireman to not to fear
Says, "All I want's my water and my coal
Look out the window, see my drive wheel roll"
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Chords:
[G]Casey Jones was a [C]brave engi[G]neer,
He told his fireman [A]not to [D]fear
Says,[G]"All I want's my [C]water and my [G]coal
[G]Look out the window, see my drive wheel roll"
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In the TRUE key of Ab, but he capoed on the 3rd fret
and then played as if in G. Using G 320003; C X32010;
"Long-A" X02225; and D X00232 (from the capo)
(Timing in seconds are on the end slower-played section)
E)--3------3--0-----3-------1----------<(in G)------
B}-------------------------------------(1:15-1:19)--
G)----(0)-------0-------0------0--------------------
D)-----0--------0-------0------0--------------------
A)---------2----------------------------------------
E)--3-----------------3-----3-----------------------
E)--0-----0---0----<(in C)-----
B}----------3------(1:19-1:21)---
G)-----0-------------------------
D)-----2------2------------------
A)--3----------------------------
E)--------3----------------------
E)--3-----3--0-----3---<(in G)-------------------------------------------
B}---------------------(1:21-1:24)---------------------------------------
G)-----0--------0--------------------------------------------------------
D)-----0--------0----------------(bass-walk into A 1:24-1:26))-----------
A)-----------------------------------------------------------------2--1--
E)--3-----3--------3--------------------------------------------3--------
E)----------5------2----------------------------2----------<(in A and D)
B}----2--------------------(to D)------3-----------3--------(1:26-1:29)
G)-------------------(2)---------------2-----------2--------
D)-------2------------2-------------0-----------------------
A)-0------------0--------------------------0----------------
E)----------------------------------------------------------
E)--3------3--0-----3-------1----------<(in G)----
B}-------------------------------------(1:29-1:32)--
G)----(0)-------0-------0------0--------------------
D)-----0--------0-------0------0--------------------
A)---------2----------------------------------------
E)--3-----------------3-----3-----------------------
E)--0-----0---0----<(in C)---------(to G)>--3-------------------
B}----------3------(1:32-1:33)---(1:33-1:35)------------0-------
G)-----0-----------------------------------------0-----------0--
D)-----2------2----------------------------------0-----------0--
A)--3-----
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