Chords Req: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor

Subject: Chords for Make me a pallet on your floo
From: jeepman (inactive)
Date: 26 Dec 00 - 07:32 PM

I sure would like to have the chords to this. I would like to learn it and need a starting place. Jeepman

Subject: Chords Add: MAKE ME A PALLET ON YOUR FLOOR
From: kendall
Date: 26 Dec 00 - 08:31 PM

Don't know what key you want, but I do it in F. On the 12-string, the chord position is G. (12 is tuned down to D.)

[G] I'd be more than, etc. [Walk it to C.]
If I could catch a train and [G] ride
If I reach [B7th] Atlanta with [C] no place to go
[G] Make me a [D] pallet on your [G] floor.

[C] Make me a pallet on your [G] floor.
[C] Make me a pallet on your [G] floor.
Make it soft, make it [B7th] low, so my [C] good girl will never know,
[G] make me a [D] pallet on your [G] floor.

I do this blues style, and, I HATE to hear it done bluegrass style. In my opinion, blues should never be done in f*****g overdrive!

Subject: RE: Chords for Make me a pallet on your floor
From: jeepman (inactive)
Date: 26 Dec 00 - 09:23 PM

Thanks Kendall. Now if the swellin will go down in my fingers??? Jeepman

Subject: RE: Chords for Make me a pallet on your floor
From: kendall
Date: 26 Dec 00 - 09:40 PM

Cant help you there...you gotta walk that lonesome valley etc LOL

Subject: RE: Chords for Make me a pallet on your floor
From: jeepman (inactive)
Date: 27 Dec 00 - 02:28 PM

Hey Kendall! Are you saying you tune to an open D? If so I can do that but don't know the chord positions. Can you reccomend a site that can help me? Jeepman

Subject: Chords Add: MAKE ME A PALLET ON YOUR FLOOR
From: Songster Bob
Date: 27 Dec 00 - 03:16 PM

In C, the John Hurt version goes this way:

 C7   F                       C    C7
     Make me a pallet on your floor
  C7   F                       C    C7
     Make me a pallet on your floor
   C       C7           E7
  Make it soft, make it low, 
          F                  D7
  so my good gal, she won't know
            C         G7             C
  That you made me a pallet on your floor.

I surely hope those line up with the words of the song (from Digitrad). But that C7 into F is the key to the John Hurt version. He also uses an F9 (little finger on the 2d string, 3d fret) for melody there in the F parts.

Good luck. It's a good song.

Bob Clayton

Subject: Chords Add: MAKE ME A PALLET ON YOUR FLOOR
From: Songster Bob
Date: 27 Dec 00 - 03:22 PM

Let's try that again. I'll put the chord names where the chord changes go:

(C7) / (F) Make me a pallet on your (C) floor (C7)
(F) Make me a pallet on your (C) floor
Make it (C7) soft, make it (E7) low,
So my (F) good gal, she won't (D7) know
That you (C) made me a (G7) pallet on your (C) floor. (C7)

Hope that helps.

Bob Clayton

Subject: RE: Chords for Make me a pallet on your floor
From: kendall
Date: 27 Dec 00 - 03:39 PM

I dont use an open D...I tune the 12 string down a full tone. If I want it up to pitch, I just clamp a capo on the second fret. That brings it up to standard pitch

Subject: RE: Chords for Make me a pallet on your floor
From: jeepman (inactive)
Date: 27 Dec 00 - 04:20 PM

Thanks to all of you. Brain surgery and rocket science are a piece of cake. Guitars are a wonderful mystery. Jeepman

Subject: RE: Chords Req: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
From: GUEST,Hank
Date: 14 Jan 09 - 09:47 AM

G7&D7 ???I cant hear where those chords fit or go in there anywhere.
Try this:
BarF                     C   C7
Make me a pallet on your floor
BarF                              Bar G
Make me down a pallet on your floor


C       E7          F
Make it soft make it low

C          G             C C-7
So my good gal she won't know

Subject: RE: Chords Req: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 14 Jan 09 - 11:11 PM

Hank, I take it that barf doesn't mean the same thing to guitarists that it means to the rest of us.

Subject: RE: Chords Req: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
From: pavane
Date: 15 Jan 09 - 02:06 AM

Sandy Denny didn't do it bluegrass style! One of her earliest recordings.

Subject: RE: Chords Req: Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 Jan 09 - 04:33 PM

Jo-Ann Kelly did a fine version.

I'd ahve sworn that the chord change came in the first syllable of the word "pallet"