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24 Sep 99 - 05:13 PM (#117435) Subject: Poor Howard CHORDS needed please From: Brian Help I would like to be able to play the Leadbelly song Poor Howard...If anyone can help with chords and/or tuning I would really appreciate it. Thanks Regards Brian Tipton |
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24 Sep 99 - 06:56 PM (#117471) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Poor Howard CHORDS needed ple From: Torbjörn Olsson Brian, if you could put out your email-address on this thread, I could send you the lyrics, chords and musical notes. |
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24 Sep 99 - 10:19 PM (#117515) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Poor Howard CHORDS needed ple From: folk1234 Dear Torbjorn: Please post the lyrics & chords on the active thread. I, and perhaps others, would like them. I have sung Poor Howard along with others and I have led the singing a capella, but I've never used my guitar. Thanks |
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25 Sep 99 - 12:53 PM (#117629) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Poor Howard CHORDS needed ple From: Roger in Baltimore From "A Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly" by Julius Lester and Pete Seeger. Leadbelly played the song in "Open A": strings tuned EAEAC#E (bass to treble, left to right). Those of you who are adverse to strings breaking and necks twisting could try "Open G": strings tuned DGDGBD. The opening "riff" is slide 2-3-4 on the 5th string and strum, then 2 on the 4th string and strum, then 2-3-4 on the fifth string and strum, then 0 on the fifth string and strum. It should sound like "Who's been here since I've been gone." Then you go to the D7th chord fingered: 0 2 0 2 1 0 Holding the chord, pick 2 on the 2nd string and strum then 2 on the 2nd string and strum, 4 on the second string, 2 on the second string, 0 on the second string and strum. This should give you "Pretty little girl with a red dress on" For the chorus: barre at the fifth fret and occasionally finger the first string 7 th fret where you have the C chord, and barre the seventh fret and occasionally finger the first string at the ninth fret when you see D chord. The final D7th is the chord outlined above. Lyrics and chords:
G Of course, you could just tune your guitar in standard fashion and play the indicated chords, but you won't sound much like Lead Belly. Enjoy the song! Roger in Baltimore |
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25 Sep 99 - 04:55 PM (#117659) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Poor Howard CHORDS needed ple From: Torbjörn Olsson This is what I found. POOR HOWARD Who's been here since I've been gone Pretty little girl with a red dress on Who's been here since I've been gone Pretty little girl with a red dress on Pretty little girl with a red dress on Pretty little girl with a red dress on Pretty little girl with a red dress on Left me here to sing this song Who's been here since I've been gone Great big man with a derby on Who's been here since I've been gone Great big man with a derby on Great big man with a derby on Great big man with a derby on Great big man with a derby on Left me here to sing this song -Then I have a couple of lines that I don't know how to use in this song. They goes like this: Poor Howard was a poor boy Poor Howard was a poor boy Poor Howard was a poor boy Left me here to shout for joy Left me here to shout for joy Left me here to shout for joy Left me here to shout for joy Left me here to shout for joy Line Breaks <br> added. Preformat commands <pre> (beginning) and </pre> (end) added to space chords. |
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25 Sep 99 - 04:58 PM (#117661) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Poor Howard CHORDS needed ple From: Torbjörn Olsson Sorry. The lyrics I just send did get messed up. It looked OK before I sent it. |
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25 Sep 99 - 05:52 PM (#117672) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Poor Howard CHORDS From: Roger in Baltimore Torbjorn, Sorry I don't know how to double dot my o's. To keep your lyrics laid out in lines you have to use some HTML code (don't ask me what it means). At the end of each line, type in <pre><br></pre>. If nothing show here, I made a mistake. I want to show you <br>. This is known as a "line break" and allows you to move to the next line automatically. Otherwise, your web browser just ignores the "enter" you hit when making up your post. Now, to the music. The two verses you post at the end may be sung to the chorus melody, not the verse melody. Then they "scan" just fine. Roger in Baltimore |
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26 Sep 99 - 03:01 AM (#117770) Subject: Posting Chords From: Joe Offer Hi, Roger and Torbjörn- I fixed your HTML in this thread, and I'm wondering about Roger's instructions on the preformat command. I put <pre> at the beginning of the entire passage that has chords, and </pre> at the end. I don't think Roger's method will work, but maybe I'm wrong on that. By the way, to display angle brackets, it's < (left) and> (right). The ö umlaut would be ö. -Joe Offer- |
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26 Sep 99 - 09:01 AM (#117794) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Poor Howard CHORDS needed ple From: Jeri Quick, painless tip: when I reply to someone with an accent in their name, I just copy and paste it from their message. |
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26 Sep 99 - 09:19 AM (#117796) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Poor Howard CHORDS needed ple From: Roger in Baltimore Jeri, I thought of that. Only I thought about it several minutes after I submitted my post. Thanks for the suggestion. Roger in Baltimore |
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28 Sep 99 - 01:11 PM (#118503) Subject: Poor Howard From: brian@audiophileusa.com You people are a fine bunch of individuals ...thanks for all your Poor Howard help....If you see a red haired fella' wearing horn rimmed glasses and wailin' at the moon about a pretty little girl with a red dress on ...you know you done the right thing.... Regards Brian t. |