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Dadfad's major genres are acoustic old-time and folk styles.
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Peak #433
Peak in subgenre #110
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Dadfad Re-arrangement
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April 26, 2006
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Story behind the song
THis is used as an example in a chord-tab of my arrangement.
Lyrics
FROM CLARE TO HERE
by Ralph McTell
(based on recordings by him and Allison Krauss)
We 're four who shared a room,
we worked hard for the brass (alt lyric: "the cash")
And getting up late on Sunday
I never get to mass
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
Oh, it's a long, long way, it gets further day by day
It's a long, long way from Clare to here.
When Friday night comes 'round
I'm only in to fightin'
My Ma would like a letter home,
but I'm too tired for writin'.
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
And the only time I feel all right
Is when I'm into drinking.
It eases off the pain a bit
and levels out my thinking.
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
Well, it almost breaks my heart
when I think of Josephine (alt lyric: "my fam-i-ly")
I promised I'd be coming back
With pockets full of green.
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
I dream I hear a piper play...
Maybe it's just a notion.
I dream I see white horses dance...
Upon that other ocean.
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
It's a long, long way from Clare to here
Oh, it's a long, long way, it gets further day by day
It's a long, long way from Clare to here....
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I have a Sound Click sould-file associated with this chord-tab.
It can be found at:
That sound-file is in three basic sections:
0-2:16 -I do a couple of rounds as shown below, moving through those chords as I go
in a fairly improvised manner.
2:17-3:17 -I play the the chords shown in the "Simplified Basic Chords" shown below,
holding only those simple chords as shown, making no fingering changes at all and
relying only on a little arpeggiating through them to give them a bit of a melody-
line and texture.
3:18-4:49 -I play more or less what I played in the first 0-2:16 part except I have
simplified it very slightly and play it much slower, which might help to show just
where the notes are found and how the changes are made that I'd used.
.....................................
The way I do this tune is based on both Ralph McTell's original version and also on
the cover done by Allison Krauss. I do it in a fingerstyle, pretty much improvised
every time slightly differently. The chords I've given below are all of the chords
I pass through as I do the tune. The actual progression I use is simpler (only five
chords), but as I work within one chord-position I use parts of these voicings, as
changes or as I move from one chord position into another. They are not shown below
to necessarily be played (or held) as "full" chords. Just that as I make fingering-
changes, they are parts of these chords. If you held each individual chord and then
slowly played through it, it might help see the different "inflections" each makes
within a position, or how it helps one position "flow" into the next. They aren't as
complex as it may look at first. Sometimes only a note or so changes. Sometimes one
is easily played from the previous chord. (For example, the chord C*=X32013, which
is held XRMOIP. By simply moving that exact shape towards the nut one fret, it will
give you these notes 02XXX2 held by the ORXXXP for that Esus2, then slid quickly back
up again to the C* X32013.) That's just an example. Not every string/note is needed
on every chord. These are given just as a sort of selection from where to choose the
notes for the way you decide to do it yourself. Just an example to start from.
Chords:
C=X32010; C*=X32013; Cadd9=X32030; Esus2=02XXX2;G=320003; G6=320030; Gadd9=32023X
D=X00232; D6=X0030X; Am=X02210; Asus2=X0220X; A7sus2=X0200X; Cmaj7=X3200X;
Em=022000; Em*=022003; Em add9=0
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