The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55271 Message #859257
Posted By: Suffet
05-Jan-03 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Oh, Had I a Golden Thread (Seeger)
Subject: RE: Origins: OH, HAD I A GOLDEN THREAD
If there are eight tunes or just four, one of them is surely The Great American Tune, by which I mean the tune which is the basis for...
Peg and Awl
This Train Is Bound for Glory
The Crawdad Song
Sweet Thing
Hard Traveling
Always in 4/4 time in a major key with the following chord progression or some close variant:
/I---/----/----/----/
/I---/---/[optional II7]---/V7---/
/I---/I7---/IV---/IV7---/
/I---/V7---/I---/----/
An alternative for the last line might be:
/V7---/----/I---/----/
Can anyone add to the list of The Great American Tune?
--- Steve