Chord Req:This version of Black Jack Davey (Heron)

Subject: Chord Req: black jack Davy
From: boab d
Date: 08 Feb 03 - 08:40 PM

Hello All I've seen the Lyrics posted for this song and i would someone who could give me the chords for this great song as its my BIG sisters favourite
Cheers
Dylan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: black jack Davy
From: masato sakurai
Date: 08 Feb 03 - 10:25 PM

Dylan's version is HERE.

There're too many versions for this (see The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Chord Req: black jack Davy
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 09 Feb 03 - 06:30 PM

If the version you want is the one by the Incredible String Band (IMHO the best of the lot) then I will post the chords for you.

Dylan's version is different.

Murray

Subject: RE: Chord Req: black jack Davy
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Feb 03 - 01:48 AM

Hi, Dylan - there are so many versions of the song. You have to pick one, and then we can work out chords for it.
If it's Dylan chords you want, Click here. this page has simpler chords for "BJD" than the one Masato linked to above.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Chord Req: black jack Davy
From: My guru always said
Date: 10 Feb 03 - 04:47 AM

Do you perhaps mean the Steeleye Span version?

Subject: RE: Chord Req: black jack Davy
From: boab d
Date: 11 Feb 03 - 04:58 PM

Hullo all i think its the one from the ISB as Gabelunzie did a cover of it and they play it a lot at there gigs.I ve just done the links thins as put in by Joe offer and its not the Bob Dylan one
Cheers all
Dylan

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-Joe Offer-

Subject: Lyr Add: BLACKJACK DAVID^^^
From: GUEST,Dylan
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 09:21 AM

Hullo again well I've found the words for the song on the site but now I'm looking for the chords Please help
Cheers and Cheerio for noo cos I'm at work
Dylan

BLACKJACK DAVID^^^

Blackjack David is the name that I bear
Been alone in the forest for a long time
But the time is come, and when a lady I find
I will love her and hold her, singing through the green green
trees

The skin on my hands is like leather, alright.
My face is so hard from the cold wind
But my heart's so warm with the song that I sing
Will charm a fair lady, singing through the green green trees

Now fair Eloise rode out that day...^^^

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As Malcolm says below, this is Mike Heron's Incredible String Band version, apparently copied directly from the Digital Tradition. Please don't post lyrics we already have. Just post an excerpt for clarity (if needed, and a link to the lyrics). If you post lyrics we already have, then we have to do fruitless research to find out that we already have them. We like to help, but please don't make people do extra work. Whenever you post lyrics, please state where you found them. Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Chord Req: This version of Black Jack Davey
From: allanwill
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 10:17 AM

This site could be a help.

Allan

Subject: RE: Chord Req: This version of Black Jack Davey
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 10:38 AM

You don't need to copy and paste the whole thing from the DT; just say that's the one you're asking about if you don't know how to make a link to the file.

This is Mike Heron's re-write, called by him Black Jack Davy. The DT file BLACKJACK DAVID credits him. The transcription contains some mis-hearings; for example, like leather, alright should be like the leather I ride, and sixteen summers should be fifteen summers. There are more accurate transcriptions in this earlier discussion:

Help: History of Blackjack David-y-ey

Boab asked about "the chords" for this one a couple of weeks back: Chord Req: black jack Davy (above), and Murray MacLeod has promised to post them.

Subject: RE: Chord Req:This version of Black Jack Davey (Heron)
From: GUEST,boab_d
Date: 22 Mar 03 - 04:23 AM

Hello all well after the help that I recieved here I thank you all for making my big sister a happy bunny and a wee special thankyou to alinact for the ISB site at yahoo.
Cheers all once again
Dylan

Subject: RE: Chord Req:This version of Black Jack Davey (Heron)
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 22 Mar 03 - 01:58 PM

Now I'm confused. Presumably you managed to work out the chords ?


Murray

Subject: RE: Chord Req:This version of Black Jack Davey (Heron)
From: GUEST,boab d
Date: 23 Mar 03 - 11:11 AM

Murray the ISB site at yahoo has a search on chords and I managed to open one of those wierd zipfile things which had the chords on it.
Dylan

Subject: RE: Chord Req:This version of Black Jack Davey (Heron)
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 13 - 02:33 PM

Hi- anyone know which is the version of Black Jack Davey that the Incredible String Band played, specifically which chords?
Thanks if anyone can tell me.

Ole