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Thread #119631   Message #2597454
Posted By: Jack Campin
25-Mar-09 - 08:45 PM
Thread Name: Accepted chords for traditional tunes
Subject: RE: Accepted chords for traditional tunes
Well you couldn't take the beat from the bodhran player, could you?

I looked up Tom Anderson's published version of Da Slockit Light (in "Ringing Strings"). No chords given, but there is a second fiddle part, "written by an American student in 1979". The chords you get from that fiddle accompaniment are, I think:

  -|D - - -|D  - - -|G - D  -|G -  A7 -|
    D - - -|D  - - -|G - A7 -|D -  -  :|
  -|D - A -|G  - D G|D - E  -|A -  - - |
    D - A -|G  - - -|G - A  -|D -  - - |
    D - A -|G  - - -|G - D  -|G Em A D |
    D - - -|Bb - D -|G - A7 -|D -  - -||


So Bb it is, though I'd never have guessed it. Maybe the American student was copying a WillieJohnsonism?