The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99035   Message #1969654
Posted By: Roger in Baltimore
16-Feb-07 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Dark as a Dungeon (Merle Travis)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Travis' Dark as a Dungeon
Ebbie,

I agree with Jim. I never heard Travis do the song. However, whenever I have seen the chords reported they are usually in the key of A and fairly simple. I'm only guessing, but I suspect Travis may have used Travis picking on the song. If so, he added grace notes to pick up the melody. Sometimes people indicate a new chord for each grace note. Then it can look real complicated. Perhaps that is what you saw.

Roger