From e43018e8760688a6477bb4ef57d85643905749e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amolith Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 03:03:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] initial commit --- .gitignore | 1 + Down The Line.cho | 51 ++++++++++++++++ Dusty Country Roads.cho | 38 ++++++++++++ Eight More Miles To Louisville.cho | 59 +++++++++++++++++++ How Mountain Girls Can Love.cho | 37 ++++++++++++ I've been to Georgia on a fast train.cho | 44 ++++++++++++++ In The Pines.cho | 58 ++++++++++++++++++ Rabbit in the log.cho | 59 +++++++++++++++++++ The Longest Johns/Ashes.cho | 36 ++++++++++++ The Longest Johns/Oak and Ash and Thorn.cho | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++ 10 files changed, 448 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .gitignore create mode 100644 Down The Line.cho create mode 100644 Dusty Country Roads.cho create mode 100644 Eight More Miles To Louisville.cho create mode 100644 How Mountain Girls Can Love.cho create mode 100644 I've been to Georgia on a fast train.cho create mode 100644 In The Pines.cho create mode 100644 Rabbit in the log.cho create mode 100644 The Longest Johns/Ashes.cho create mode 100644 The Longest Johns/Oak and Ash and Thorn.cho diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a136337 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +*.pdf diff --git a/Down The Line.cho b/Down The Line.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4168f5b --- /dev/null +++ b/Down The Line.cho @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +{title: Down The Line} +{composer: Lonesome River Band} +{time: 4/4} + +{comment: Instrumental verse as intro} + +[G]Born out in the [C]country, [Em]raised out on a [D]farm +[G]Got my edu[C]cation out [D]behind a [C]barn +[G]Left one Sunday [C]morning [G]in a driving [D]rain +[Em]Hitchhiked to the [C]freight yard and [G]caught the [D]railroad [G]train + +{soc} +[G]Oh, [C]engineer, [G]let your whistle [D]whine +[Em]Oh, get me [C]out of here, a little [G]further down the [C]line +{eoc} + +[G]I've been to Cali[C]fornia and I've [Em]been to New Or[D]leans +[G]Been to New York [C]City and [Em]everywhere be[C]tween +[G]I've eat beans and [C]taters, your [G]finest cavi[D]ar +[Em]Drank brandy from a [C]snifter and [G]moonshine [D]from a [G]jar + +{soc} +[G]Oh, [C]engineer, [G]let your whistle [D]whine +[Em]Oh, get me [C]out of here, a little [G]further down the [C]line +{eoc} + +{comment: Fiddle Solo} + +[G]Spent a year in a [C]prison with a [G]number for my [D]name +[G]Fed me bread and [C]water, tied [Em]to a [D]ball and [C]chain +[G]I swore the day they [C]slammed the door and the [G]jailer locked me [D]in +[Em]If they ever let me [C]outta here, I'll [G]never go [D]back a[G]gain + +{soc} +[G]Oh, [C]engineer, [G]let your whistle [D]whine +[Em]Oh, get me [C]out of here, a little [G]further down the [C]line +{eoc} + +{comment: Mandolin/Banjo Solo} + +[G]Been dreaming of the [C]day when I [Em]return back to my [D]home +[G]That's where I want to settle down, [Em]never [D]more to [C]roam +[G]Sit me on a [C]tractor and [G]point me to the [D]field +[Em]And I will plow a [C]furrow with my [G]hands up [D]on the [G]wheel + +{soc} +[G]Oh, [C]engineer, [G]let your whistle [D]whine +[Em]Oh, get me [C]out of here, a little [G]further down the [C]line +[G]Oh, [C]engineer, [G]let your whistle [D]whine +[Em]Oh, get me [C]out of here, a little [G]further down the [C]line +{eoc} diff --git a/Dusty Country Roads.cho b/Dusty Country Roads.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..451b067 --- /dev/null +++ b/Dusty Country Roads.cho @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +{t: Dusty Country Roads} +{artist: Bob Henson} +{capo: 4} + +{sov} +Now when [C]I was growin' up, there was a [F]beat-up pickup [C]truck +took my dad and me down the [G]dusty country [C]roads +Now [C]years have come and gone, that old [F]truck still rolls a[C]long +{eov} + +{soc} +And the [F]lessons that I learned as the [C]old truck rumbled on, +They got me when I don't know where to [G]go +Though the [F]old man's gone away, things he [C]taught ring true today +As I travel down this [G]dusty country [C]road +{eoc} + +{c: Instrumental} + +Now [C]she worked dawn to dust, always [F]kept the family [C]first +And she taught us to be [G]all that we could [C]be +I've travelled far and wide, I still [F]feel her by my [C]side +Every time that I reach [G]out and touch my [C]dreams + +{soc} +{c: Chorus} +{eoc} + +{c: Instrumental} + +No [C]matter where you go, there's a [F]dusty country [C]road +Oh, they twist, they turn, they [G]change every [C]day +Now together or alone, that [F]old road keeps goin' [C]on +And it's what you've learned that [G]helps you find your [C]way + +{soc} +{c: Chorus} +{eoc} diff --git a/Eight More Miles To Louisville.cho b/Eight More Miles To Louisville.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45305a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Eight More Miles To Louisville.cho @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +{title: Eight More Miles to Louisville} +{composer: Grandpa Jones} +{time: 4/4} + +{c: On last line of verses, walk up from G on first word and back} +{c: down on last.} + +{c: Instrumental} + +I've travelled o'er this country wide seeking fortune fair +Up an down the two coast lines I've travelled everywhere +Portland east and Portland West and back across the line +I'm goin' down to the place that's best, the ol' hometown of mine + +{soc} +Well eight more miles and Louisville will come into my view +Eight more miles on this ol' road and I'll never more be blue +I knew some day I'd come back, I knew it from the start +Eight more miles to Louisville, the hometown of my heart +{eoc} + +{c: Instrumental} + +There's got to be a gal somewhere that you love best of all +Mine lives down in Louisville, she's little small oh she's small +She's the kind you can't find a' ramblin' through the land +I'm goin' there this very day to win her heart and hand + +{soc} +Well eight more miles and Louisville will come into my view +Eight more miles on this ol' road and I'll never more be blue +I knew some day I'd come back, I knew it from the start +Eight more miles to Louisville, the hometown of my heart +{eoc} + +{c: Instrumental} + +Now I can picture in my mind a place we'll call our home +A humble little hut for two, we'll never want to roam +The place that's right for that love sight is in those bluegrass hills +Where gently rolls the Ohio near a place called Louisville + +{soc} +Oh eight more miles and Louisville will come into my view +Eight more miles on this ol' road and I'll never more be blue +I knew some day I'd come back, I knew it from the start +Eight more miles to Louisville, the hometown of my heart +{eoc} + +{comment: Instrumental} + +{soc} +Oh eight more miles and Louisville will come into my view +Eight more miles on this ol' road and I'll never more be blue +I knew some day I'd come back, I knew it from the start +Eight more miles to Louisville, the hometown of my heart +Eight more miles to Louisville, the hometown of my heart +{comment: Instrumental walk up & back down} +{eoc} diff --git a/How Mountain Girls Can Love.cho b/How Mountain Girls Can Love.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..448a995 --- /dev/null +++ b/How Mountain Girls Can Love.cho @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +{title: How Mountain Girls Can Love} + +{comment: Instrumental intro leading into chorus} + + +{soc} +[C]Get down boys, [G]go back home +[D]Back to that girl you [G]love +[C]Treat her right, [G]never wrong +[D]How mountain girls can [G]love +{eoc} + +[G]I'm ridin' tonight in that high cold wind +on the [D]trail of the old lonesome [G]pine +[G]I'm thinking of you, Lord I'm feelin' so blue, +Wonderin' [D]why you left me [G]behind + +{soc} +{comment: Chorus} +{eoc} + +{comment: Instrumental} + +[G]Remember the night when we strolled down the lane +Our [D]hearts were gay an' happy [G]then +[G]I pulled you close while you whispered low +We [D]both hoped the night would never [G]end + +{soc} +{comment: Chorus} +{eoc} + +{comment: Instrumental} + +{soc} +{comment: Chorus, repeating last line} +{eoc} diff --git a/I've been to Georgia on a fast train.cho b/I've been to Georgia on a fast train.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00fcd33 --- /dev/null +++ b/I've been to Georgia on a fast train.cho @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +{title: I've been to Georgia on a fast train} +{composer: Willie Nelson} + +It was a [G]rainy Wednesday morning on the [C]day that I was born +in that old [G]sharecropper's wondering' country [D]shack +Well they [G]say my mammy left me on the [C]same day that she had me +she [G]hit the road an' she [D]never once looked [G]back + +[G]I just thought that I might mention thgat my [C]grandma's old age pension, +it's the [G]reason I'm sittin' here [D]today + +{soc} +[G] I've been to Georgia on a [C]fast train honey +[G] I wasn't born no yester[D]day +I got a [G]good Christian raisin', [C]eight grade education +Ain't no [G]need in y'all [D]treatin' me this [G]way +{eoc} + +{comment: Instrumental} + +Well now my [G]woman, Carolina, I don't [C]guess I'll ever find +another [G]lady put together like you [D]are +I lvoe that a'[G]wiggle in your walk and all o'your [C]big city talk +and that [G]brand new shiny [D]Plymouth ragtime car + +{soc} +{comment: Chorus} +{eoc} + +Well now it's [G]hurry up and wait in this [C]world of give and take +It seems like [G]haste makes waste every [D]time +But I [G]swear to my soul, when you [C]hear the engines roll, +You better [G]know I'm gonna [D]get my share o' [G]mine + + +{soc} +[G] I've been to Georgia on a [C]fast train honey +[G] I wasn't born no yester[D]day +I got a [G]good Christian raisin', [C]eight grade education +Ain't no [G]need in y'all [D]treatin' me this [G]way +I got a [G]good Christian raisin', [C]eight grade education +Ain't no [G]need in y'all [D]treatin' me this [G]way +There ain't no [G]need in y'all [D]treatin' me this [G]way +{eoc} diff --git a/In The Pines.cho b/In The Pines.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8635c11 --- /dev/null +++ b/In The Pines.cho @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +{title: In The Pines} +{composer: Traditional} +{time: 3/4} +{key: Am} + +Hey [Am]girl, hey [C]girl, don't [Dm]lie to [F]me, +Tell me [Am]where did you [E]sleep last [Am]night + +{soc} +In the [Am]pines, in the [C]pines +Where the [Dm]sun never [F]shines +And I [Am]shivered the [E]whole night [Am]through +{eoc} + +My [Am]daddy [C]was a [Dm]railroad [F]man, +Killed a [Am]mile and a [E]half from [Am]here +His [Am]head was [C]found in a [Dm]driver's [F]wheel +His [Am]body as [E]never [Am]found + +Hey [Am]girl, hey [C]girl, where [Dm]will you [F]go, +I'm [Am]goin' where the [E]cold wind [Am]blows + +{soc} +In the [Am]pines, in the [C]pines +Where the [Dm]sun never [F]shines +And you [Am]shiver the [E]whole night [Am]through +{eoc} + +{comment: Instrumental} + +The [Am]longest [C]train I [Dm]ever [F]saw, +went [Am]down that [E]Georgia [Am]line +The [Am]engine [C]passed at [Dm]six o'[F]clock, +and the [Am]cab came a[E]round at [Am]nine + +The [Am]prettiest [C]girl I [Dm]ever [F]saw +lived [Am]down that [E]railroad [Am]track +Red [Am]rosey [C]cheeks and [Dm]blue eyes [F]fair +and the [Am]curls hung [E]down her [Am]back + +My [Am]darling was [C]killed last [Dm]Friday [F]night, +Just a [Am]half a [E]mile from [Am]town +Her [Am]head was [C]lain in the [Dm]carbox [F]floor +And her [Am]body has [E]never been [Am]found + +Hey [Am]girl, Hey [C]girl what [Dm]have I [F]done, +For to [Am]make you [E]treat me [Am]so +You have [Am]caused me to [C]weep, you [Dm]caused me to [F]mourn +and you [Am]caused me to [E]lose my [Am]home + +{soc} +In the [Am]pines, in the [C]pines +Where the [Dm]sun never [F]shines +And you [Am]shiver when [E]cold winds [Am]blow +In the [Am]pines, in the [C]pines +Where the [Dm]sun don't ever [F]shine +And we'll [Am]shiver the [E]whole night [Am]through +{eoc} diff --git a/Rabbit in the log.cho b/Rabbit in the log.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c870dc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Rabbit in the log.cho @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +{title: Rabbit in the log} +{composer: Bill Monroe} + +{comment: Instrumental intro} + +Now there's a [C]rabbit in a log and I ain't got my dog +How will I get him, I [G]know +Oh, I'll [C]get me a briar and I'll twist it in his hair +and that's how I'll [G]get him, I [C]know + +{start_of_chorus} +I [F]know (I know) yes I [C]know (I know) +That's how I'll get him, I [G]know +Oh, I'll [C]get me a briar and I'll twist it in his hair +and that's how I'll [G]get him, I [C]know +{end_of_chorus} + +{comment: Instrumental} + +I'm gonna [C]build me a fire and I'll cook that ole hare +I'll roll him in them flames and make him [G]brown +have a [C]feast here tonight while the moon's shinin' bright +and find me a good [G]place to lie [C]down + +{soc} +To lie [F]down (to lie down) yes to lie [C]down (to lie down) +I'll find me a good place to lie [G]down +Have a [C]feast here tonight while the moon's shinin' bright +and find me a [G]good place to lie [C]down +{eoc} + +{comment: Instrumental} + +Now I'm [C]going down the track with a coat ripped up my back +and the sole on my shoes are nearly [G]gone +Just a [C]little ways ahead there's an old farmer's shed +and that's where I'll [G]rest my weary [C]bones + +{soc} +Weary [F]bones (weary bones) my lazy [C]bones (my lazy bones) +Yeah that's where I'll rest my weary [G]bones +Just a [C]little ways ahead there's an old farmer's shed +and that's where I'll [G]rest my weary [C]bones +{eoc} + +{comment: Instrumental} + +Now there's a [C]rabbit in a log and I ain't got my dog +How will I get him, I [G]know +Oh, I'll [C]get me a briar and I'll twist it in his hair +and that's how I'll [G]get him, I [C]know + + +{start_of_chorus} +I [F]know (I know) yes I [C]know (I know) +That's how I'll get him, I [G]know +Oh, I'll [C]get me a briar and I'll twist it in his hair +and that's how I'll [G]get him, I [C]know +{end_of_chorus} diff --git a/The Longest Johns/Ashes.cho b/The Longest Johns/Ashes.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc11bee --- /dev/null +++ b/The Longest Johns/Ashes.cho @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +{title: Ashes} +{composer: The Longest Johns} + + +[Am]Watch that old [C]fire as it [G]flickers and [Am]dies +That [C]once blessed the [G]household and [D]lit up our lives +It [C]shone for the [G]friends and the [D]clinking of [Am]glasses +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame, you can [G]worship the [Am]ashes + +[Am]Capture the [C]wild things and [G]bring them in [Am]line +And [C]own what was [G]never your [D]right to confine +The [C]lives and the [G]loves and the [D]songs are what [Am]matters +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame, you can [G]worship the [Am]ashes + +[Am]Do you feel [C]heavy? Your [G]eyes drop with [Am]grief +Your [C]spirit is [G]wild and your [D]suffering is brief +So [C]never you [G]buckle and [D]bend to the [Am]masses +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame, you can [G]worship the [Am]ashes + +[Am]Get round the [C]fire with a [G]glass of strong [Am]ale +And [C]tell us a [G]story from [D]beyond the pale +[C]Bury some [G]seeds and [D]expect some strong [Am]branches +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame, you can [G]worship the [Am]ashes + +Now [Am]show me a [C]man that can [G]meet all his [Am]needs +For [C]what we need [G]most now is [D]unity's seed +A [C]common old [G]song for all [D]creeds and all [Am]classes +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame, you can [G]worship the [Am]ashes +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame... + +[Am]What will we [C]do when the [G]world it is [Am]ending +And [C]time it is [G]halted for [D]friend and for foe? +[C]Try to hold [G]on to the [D]time as it [Am]passes +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame, you can [G]worship the [Am]ashes +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame, you can [G]worship the [Am]ashes +I'll [Am]tend to the [C]flame, you can [G]worship the [Am]ashes diff --git a/The Longest Johns/Oak and Ash and Thorn.cho b/The Longest Johns/Oak and Ash and Thorn.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48cab1b --- /dev/null +++ b/The Longest Johns/Oak and Ash and Thorn.cho @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +{title: Oak & Ash & Thorn} +{composer: The Longest Johns} + +{c: Intro: Am} + +Of [Am]all the trees that grow so fair, old England to adorn, +[FM7/C]Greater are none beneath the sun than [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn. + +{soc} +Sing [Am]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs, +All on a midsummer's [Em]morn. +[FM7/C]Surely we'll sing of no little thing +In [G]Oak, and Ash, and [Am]Thorn. +{eoc} + +[Am]Yew that is old, in churchyard mould, he breedeth a mighty bow +Alder for shoes do wise men choose, and Beech for cups also +But when you have killed, and your bowl it is filled, and your shoes are clean outworn +[FM7/C]Back you must speed for all that you need to [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn + +{soc} +Sing [Am]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs, +All on a midsummer's [Em]morn. +[FM7/C]Surely we sing of no little thing +In [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn. +{eoc} + +{c: Repeat chorus, playing Am on last "Thorn"} + +[Am]Elm, she hates mankind and waits, til every gust be laid, +To [FM7/C]drop a limb on the head of him that [G]anyway trusts her shade, +But [Am]whether a lad be sober or sad, or mellow with ale from the horn, +He'll [FM7/C]take no wrong when he lyeth along 'neath [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn + +{soc} +Sing [Am]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs, +All on a midsummer's [Em]morn. +[FM7/C]Surely we sing of no little thing +In [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn. +{eoc} + +{c: Repeat chorus, playing Am on last "Thorn"} + +Oh, [Am]do not tell the priest our plight, for he would call it a sin, +But [Am]we've been out in the woods all night, a-conjuring summer in, +We [Am]bring you good news by word of mouth, good news for cattle and corn +[Am]Sure as the sun come up from the south, by Oak, and Ash, and [D]Thorn. + +{soc} +Sing [Am]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs, +All on a midsummer's [Em]morn. +[FM7/C]Surely we sing of no little thing +In [G]Oak, and Ash, and Thorn. +{eoc} + +{c: Play x4 total, playing Am on very last "Thorn"} + +{c: In DADGAD, the chords are fingered as follows} +{c: Am Em F G D} +{c: 0 0 0 0 0} +{c: 0 0 0 0 0} +{c: 2 0 0 0 2} +{c: 2 2 0 0 4} +{c: 0 2 3 5 0} +{c: X 2 3 5 0}