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Thread #84928   Message #3489518
Posted By: GUEST,Mark Bluemel
12-Mar-13 - 09:37 AM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Gypsy (Ralph McTell)
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Gypsy (Ralph McTell)
I remember working this out probably 30 years ago, and I'm very much in agreement with Lee Mitchell. Double dropped-D is the tuning - the dischordant chord pretty much fixes it, as you have the Eb on the B string against the open D which would otherwise be an E string. Apart from the "If the Gipsy cannot dance" section, which is a little busier, it's quite an easy number to pick up.

It shares quite a lot structurally, I think, with "Another Rain" from the same album - that one is in straight dropped-D I seem to remember.