Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland

Subject: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: GUEST,Martunes
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 10:07 PM

Hi.
I'm trying to figure out the chords for this tune and think I've hit a wall.
So far I have:

G                                                         D                   G
When the roses bloom in dixieland I am coming back to you
                                                                     D
When the birds are singing music grand to the sweetest girl I ever knew
C                           G                                                   C
I am saving up my money to buy a little cabin home for two
G                                                         D                   G
When the roses bloom in dixieland I am coming back to you.

But I'm not sure about the "C's" They don't sound quite right to me.
I've scoured the net and check the Mudcat threads to no avail.
Can someone lend a hand to my ear?
Thanks

M

Can someone

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 12:18 AM

Try this

When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
Carter Family

[1] When the roses bloom in dixieland
I am [5] coming back to [1] you
[1] When the birds are singing music grand
to the [2] sweetest girl I ever [5] knew
[5] I am saving up my [1] money
to [4] buy a little cabin home for [1] two
[1] When the roses bloom in dixieland
I am [5] coming back to [1] you

I just got a letter from the sunny south
from my girl in Tennes see
She said she loved me like she used to do
and was waiting there for me
I answered back her letter though I am far away
When the roses bloom in dixieland
I am coming back to stay


When I left my honey at the railroad train
I said honey wait for me
I'm going to make a lot of money up north
then it's me for old Tennessee

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 12:17 AM

you could leave out the [2] chord
sometimes i just like to add an extra chord for variation.

[1] When the roses bloom in Dixieland
I am [5] coming back to [1] you
When the band is playing music grand
to the [5] sweetest girl I ever knew
I am saving up my [1] money
to [4] buy a little cabin home for [1] two
When the roses bloom in Dixieland
I am [5] coming home to [1] you

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 08:01 PM

I agree with Guest #2. The Carter Family never (in the Gilbert and Sullivan sense) used [2] chords; it is one of the things that gave them their distinctive sound. When we (the Orpheus Supertones) recorded it recently (Mudthumper MM-0030) we did it with the chords given above. So did the Red Clay Ramblers in "Songs of the Carter Family" and so did the Original Carter Family. Don't know too many recordings of this great song!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: pdq
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 08:13 PM

Tim & Mollie O'Brien do this song on "Take Me Back", Sugar Hill SH-CD-3766. They recorded three CDs, this was the first and still the best, although "Way Out On The Mountain" is close.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: M.Ted
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 01:27 AM

I just listened to the original Carter's recording of this tune, boys, and GUEST is right--there is a two chord right there at the word "sweetest"--it's a D7--putting this in the key of C. Sorry, Pete, but that's the way it is--G&S win out--

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 11:16 AM

Thank you all so much!!!
This is terrific.
Now all I have to worry about is singing the dang thing!

m

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: Gene
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 03:14 PM

The Blue Sky Boys also recorded it...a little more up tempo..
and they clearly put in the [2] chord..

PM me or email: [e-mail] for mp3 of BSB

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the Carter Family version may be an AURICAL ILLUSION...

one time i hear the [2] chord -- next time i dont...
the vocal seems to have the [2] chord but not in another place
and the instrumental doesn't seem to go there?????

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 03:49 PM

I've just listened to the Carter Family recording (Bear Family set CD 2) about three times. I can't hear the 2 chord. M.Ted-- can we agree that the 2 chord is not in the guitar part, meaning that it's in the voices if it's there at all? (Next step would be to figure out the notes sung on the two notes of "sweetest" by the group)

BTW according to my tuner, the song is in Bb. Maybelle is certainly playing C shapes, which means she tuned her guitar down a full tone to play in Bb, rather than playing G capoed up 3.

I am fairly embarrassed to realize how much I straightened out the timing before teaching the song to the rest of our band, and also altered "coming BACK to you" into "coming HOME to you." Oops.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: Big Mick
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 03:57 PM

Pete, you made me laugh straight out loud with your comment about being embarassed at straightening out Mother Maybelle. Funny stuff.

I hope all is well. Been too long, especially given we live so close.

Mick

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland
From: M.Ted
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 12:26 AM

Sorry, Pete, I hear the 2 in the guitar part. And I worked it out by matching the chords along with the recording on my synth, which is coldly precise about pitch. Anyway the Carter's wouldn't have done a 2 chord in the vocals over a 1 chord on the guitar--that would be way too bent for them. Maybe we have different recordings, though--Still, this is a great, and unfairly neglected song. Do it as you please--I'll never tell;-)