Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)

Subject: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Fishpicker
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 01:20 PM

Does anyone have the chords to the Lenny Gallant song Island Clay?

Thanks, Greg

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 01:52 PM

Ummm... Lemme check the archive... I used to do that one.. but it didn't last long in the set list... good tune eh...

Back in a few...

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Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: ISLAND CLAY (Lennie Gallant)
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 02:55 PM

O.k... now if I can get the damn HTML code worked out I should be able to help ya...

This is in the album key (D), but I suspect that Lenny is using a dropped tuning or other... But I worked it out again in standard, no capo...

This instrumental opening has all the chords in the verse in it...
D, A, D, A, G, D, A, G

But after 'hill' or 'lawn' for instance, instead of going to the A, stay on D and grab the run on the D string that goes 4th, 2nd open...


ISLAND CLAY

This old house once stood proud on a hill
Of pine and cedar from the land
Cut by my fathers hand
And hauled up from the mill.
Now she stares, at her life spread on the lawn,
At strangers picking through her bones.
They take them for their own
And haul them far away.

[The 'chorus' is a nice little run from
Bm, D6th add 9th**, G, A Em
and the last line is G, A, D.]

And the auctioneer he sings his songs and the people pay.
Old voices echo from this house now dark and grey
And cold as island clay.

This old farm, eighty acres of life,
Sweat, and iron-reddened soil,
Paid little for my toil
But saw us through all right,
Till the company came
And bought land up all around.
Soon the market prices fell.
I took another loan
And ploughed it underground.

But tomorrow morning they will come and have their way,
Though their hands touch not he soil and never will pay
The price of island clay.

These old hands turned the sod and tossed the seed.
These hands worked hard and they were strong,
But they couldn't hold a printed paper deed.

From the moment that they signed this land away,
These old hands are getting colder every day,
As cold as island clay.


** a D6th add 9th is just he bar chord Bm, without the bar, so an Am, slid up to the 3rd fret...

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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 03:07 PM

YAY!!!

It worked... stupid HTML...

Hope that helps eh... lemme know...

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Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Fishpicker
Date: 27 Oct 00 - 03:23 PM

Yes Thats great and thanks very much Clinton for all your help. It is a great song.

Greg

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Beer
Date: 28 Feb 13 - 08:09 PM

I was trying to play this song today and I was stumped on a few words and chords. Started doing a search on the net and this is where I was directed.   Mudcat
Thanks,
Adrien

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)
From: GUEST,Gone Tronna
Date: 27 Jun 13 - 10:49 PM

Hi
Does anyone know the chords for 'Peter's Dream'?
Love that song.
Thank you

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Sep 13 - 07:43 AM

I ALso want chords to Peters Dream

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Oct 13 - 08:40 AM

Did anyone succeed in getting the chords to Peter's Dream?

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 07 Oct 13 - 10:43 AM

Hello, Guest.

It would be best if you started a new thread with 'Peter's Dream' in the title. That way 'catters who know the song will see your request. Since this thread is called 'Island Clay,' few people will know you are asking about 'Peter's Dream.'

Here's the URL for an old thread that has the lyrics:

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=15667#142371

No chords, but that's a beginning.

(The song is not archived in the Digital Tradition. See box at the top of the home page.)