Tune Req: Peggy Gordon (guitar tabs)

Subject: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: badgerbiker
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 03:33 PM

Can anyone help with a nice easy version of this please?

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 07:35 PM

The whole nine yards is here.

(Don't forget to scroll down. There are lyrics, chords, tabs, versions and midis.)

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: 12-stringer
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 07:36 PM

The only version I've ever heard is the one on Peggy Seeger's "A Song for You and Me" LP (Prestige 13058) -- my favorite Peggy Seeger album ever. She accompanies herself on autoharp. It comes from a Helen Creighton collection, out of the Maritimes. From the Peggy Seeger Songbook, then, this set of chords:

[E]Oh, Peg[B7]gy [E]Gordon, you are my dar[B7]ling
Come [A]sit you [E]down upon my [B7]knee
And [A]tell to [E]me the [B7]very [E]rea[B7]son
[A]Why I'm sligh[E]ted [B7]so by [E]thee.

This tune is extremely similar to the one Martin Carthy uses for "Banks of the Sweet Primeroses" on his album "But Two Came By" and which he plays on mandolin.

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: Houston_Diamond
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 08:25 PM

ooh dear... Um... I have heard this so many times and those chords I find hard to accompany on both sets...

I seem to like Peace's one though except I play it slightly different:

[A]Oh, Peggy [A]Gord[E]on you [D] are my [A] darl[E]ing,
Come [D] sit ye [A] down upon my [E] knee,
And [D] tell to [A] me the [D] very [A] reas[E]on,
That [D] I am [A] slighted [E] so by [A] thee.

I seem to be able to sing to this better but I'm not sure if you sing it different. I'm just going on what I remember from clubs :D

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 08:27 PM

I've never heard the song before, guys. Shot in the dark from me.

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: Houston_Diamond
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 08:34 PM

That's ok Peace...

It's been done by the Corrs, Dubliners so if you wanted to I'm sure you could find a version or 2 to listen to. I just like the song especially when done unaccompanied and with a lot of power :D (but it sounds nice with instruments)

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 17 Jun 08 - 09:53 PM

My favorite recording of this is Eileen McGann's, on the Heritage CD. The slowest version ever is probably Sinead O'Connor's, on that album of folk songs she did.

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: Jim McLean
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 06:38 AM

Luke kelly has recorded it and sings it superbly.

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: GUEST,folkwaller
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 03:00 PM

Have a listen to the Dransfields.

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 07:25 PM

Happy Traum does a wonderful version of this song.

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: Houston_Diamond
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 07:35 PM

I just love singing it... it always reminds me of when I was a kid in folk clubs and everyone singing it :D

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Jun 08 - 07:41 PM

I do a not bad version. I'll try and put it on my website soon as I promised Sapper 82 I would a few weeks ago at a mudcat gather in deepest Derbyshire - a place glorying in the name of of Wardlow Mires. Strangely reminiscent of that pub in An American Werewolf!

Although I too first heard it from Peggy strumming on autoharp - the version I draw mainly on is my memory of the late John Dunkerly of the Ian Campbell folk group.

Subject: RE: Guitar tabs 'Peggy Gordon'
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Jul 08 - 10:32 PM

done it tonight! included is deliberate mistake!

http://bigalwhittle.co.uk/id30.html