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Thread #53519   Message #825044
Posted By: HuwG
13-Nov-02 - 08:08 AM
Thread Name: Songs of Faithless Women
Subject: RE: Songs of Faithless Women
Thanks, Dick Greenhaus, Coortin' in the Kitchen is indeed in the Digitrad.

Whe searching for Irish tunes in the Digitrad, it is useful to adopt a Buzz Hawkins trick (for singing his own composition, "Father Finacupane"), and type while winking one eye, with the head cocked over to one side.


The official chords as I have them are:


G                                           D
Come single belle and beau, to me now pay attention
G                                  C             D7
And love, I'll plainly show, is the divil's own invention.
G                  Bm          G7
For once I fell in love with a damsel most bewitchin'
C         E7   Am            A7             D
Miss Henrietta Bell, down in Captain Kelly's kitchen

cho:
G                                    D
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
G                     D
Ri toora loora la, ri toora loora laddy.


However, I think this is a bit demanding for guitar players of my modest attainments; my usual chord progression for the last line of the verse goes, C, dull thud, Em, muttered curse, Am, A7, D. I prefer to play it as:

G                  Bm
For once I fell in love with a damsel most bewitchin'
C             Am            A7             D
Miss Henrietta Bell, down in Captain Kelly's kitchen