Using the search box at the top of the page, enter in [simple gifts] (the brackets are necessary) and click on search. Three titles will come up, including the one you are looking for. Clicking that title will get you to the song itself (lyrics). At the bottom there is a link that says "CLICK HERE TO PLAY." If you have a soundcard, clicking there should play the melody. But if you press the shift key and click there at the same time, it will let you save the melody to your hard disk as a MIDI file. Then if you have MIDI software you can use it to see the notes. There are many alternative ways of doing this. Look for some threads in this forum that are a few days to a few weeks old on music notation software that could help.

As for chords, it's a two-chord song. G and D7 work for me. Start of on G. Switch to D7 at "Gift to come down..." Try a plain D if it sounds better.

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