Chords req'd Gloomy Winter - Dougie Macl

Subject: Chords req'd Gloomy Winter - Dougie Macl
From: The Maverick
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 04:20 AM

Chords req'd for Gloomy Winter as sung by Dougie Maclean. There are a few links here on Mudcat to the lyrics but I can't find any to the chords. I have a tab for an open tunbing verion in GCGGCD# but thats far too advanced for my standard of playing so far.

Subject: RE: Chords req'd Gloomy Winter - Dougie Macl
From: GUEST,scotguitar
Date: 12 Oct 11 - 05:12 PM

Hi, can anyone give me a link to the Dougie Maclean version of Gloomy Winter? I think it's played in CGCGCD#

Subject: RE: Chords req'd Gloomy Winter - Dougie Macl
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Oct 11 - 04:43 PM

Here are the chords I've applied to the version of this song which appears at a site called Electric Scotland and which comes from an old book called 'Scots Minstrelsy.'

Am - Gloomy winter's now awa
C -Soft the westlin'
G - breezes blaw
Am -'Mang the birks o' Stanley shaw the
G - mavis
E - sings fu'
Am - cheerly O

Am - Sweet the crawflowr's
G - early bell
Am - Decks Glenifer's
Em - dewy dell
C - Bloomin' like yer
G - bonnie sel' My
Am - young my artless dearie O

C -Come my lassie
G - let us stray
Am- O'er Glenkilloch's
Em - sunny brae And
C - blythely spend the
Am - gowden
G -day 'Midst
Am - joy thats never wearie O

This may not be the harmony that others use, but I wanted to go from minor (Am) to major (C) to convey happiness over the coming of spring.

I am considering a C chord for the first half of the last measure.

Subject: RE: Chords req'd Gloomy Winter - Dougie Macl
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Oct 11 - 12:23 PM

I hope Scotguitar comes back after I did all that typing.

These chords are for a guitar tuned in the conventional manner, EADGBE.

What if you are interested in playing the piece, but you don't like my chords? What if they are too high or too low? Here's what you do.

You go to this page:

http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/moneychords/keyconverter.html

and you make yourself a Chord Transposer Wheel. If you don't have one of those cute little golden fasteners to put in the middle, you can take an ordinary paper clip and bend it to a similar shape.