Rose Of Cimarron Chord

Subject: Rose Of Cimarron Chord
From: GUEST,Albert Einstein Jr
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 09:30 AM

I have looked on the internet for the words & music for the Poco song Rose Of Cimarron. I am confused by the results, they all show the opening two chords as either F# to G# (on the poco lyric & tab site) or C# to G# (Emmylou Harris. But I have played the record again and again and am sure that there is a minor somwhere in the second chord (roll on!) part - can anybody enlighten me?

Charles Atlas

Subject: RE: Rose Of Cimarron Chord
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 11:22 AM

For rederence sake, here's the Emmylou version:


Emmylou Harris   Rose Of Cimarron written by Rusty Young

Frank Reckard    lead guitar
Hank Devito      steel guitar
Tony Brown       piano
Emmory Gordy    bass
John Ware       drums
Herb Pedersen    banjo/harmony
Brian Ahern      acoustic guitar

C#               G#   
Roll along, roll on
F#            C#
Rose of Cimarron
C#             G#   
Dusty days are gone
F#            C#
Rose of Cimarron
E                           C#m                G#
Shadows touch the sand and look to see who's standin'
E                      C#m                     G#
Waitin' at your window, watchin' will they ever show
E                         C#m                      G#
Can you hear them calling? You know they have fallen on
E                            C#m                   D# G#
Campfires cold and dark that never see a spark burn bright
C#               G#   
Roll along, roll on
F#            C#
Rose of Cimarron
C#             G#   
Dusty days are gone
F#            C#
Rose of Cimarron
E                              C#m             G#
Trails that brought them home echo names the've known
E                        C#m                G#
Four days high and lonely comin' to you only
E                              C#m                         G#
You're the one they'd turn to, the only one they knew who'd do
E                         C#m                D#   G#
Ell her best to be around when the chips were down
C#               G#   
Roll along, roll on
F#            C#
Rose of Cimarron
C#             G#
Dusty days are gone
F#            C#
Rose of Cimarron
E                           C#m                G#
Shadows touch the sand and look to see who's standin'
E                      C#m                     D# G#
Waitin' at your window, watchin' will they ever show
C#               G#
Roll along, roll on
F#            C#
Rose of Cimarron
C#             G#   
Dusty days are gone
F#            C#
Rose of Cimarron




Spaw

Subject: RE: Rose Of Cimarron Chord
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 11:34 AM

If you're browser isn't set up to display its default font as a mono-spaced font like Courier, then those chords won't line up properly with the words below. You'll have to cut and paste the song & chords to a text file and set the font to a mono-spaced one in Notepad or a word processing program. But those chords do work great for that song.

If you really wanted to, Charles Atlas, you could replace that second chord (G#) with it's relative minor chord (Fm) and that would work too, though it gives it a slightly different sound (different harmony line).

Subject: RE: Rose Of Cimarron Chord
From: Mugwump
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 03:46 AM

That's exactly what I've been doing. I know that the guitar on the record is playing a major, but the vocal ... along roll on .. is definitely hinting a minor. This problem usually arises when trying to transpose a song that is played by a band, to one for solo guitar.

Thanks Cluin