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Music for Pirate Jenny

13 Jun 97 - 07:14 PM (#6792)
Subject: Black Trader/Pirate Jenny
From: Ted in Australia

Can anyone help with the MUSIC for Black Freighter? Thank you La Macia For the info on Pirate Jenny thread ed42@4kz.com.au

07 Jul 97 - 09:01 AM (#8138)
Subject: Music /Chords for Pirate Jenny
From: Ted in Australia

Can anyone help with the MUSIC or the chords for Pirate Jenny as done by Steeleye Span as the Black Freighter? ed42@4kz.com.a

07 Jul 97 - 11:46 AM (#8146)
Subject: RE: Music for Pirate Jenny
From: katie

Meg Davis also does Pirate Jenny on one of her tapes. Perhaps you can find it that way. (I've got the tape at home, if you want, I can go look up the tape's title.)

Katie

07 Jul 97 - 12:16 PM (#8147)
Subject: RE: Music for Pirate Jenny
From: Peter Timmerman

Unfortunately, I do not have the music, but the original is I believe available in a big book celebrating the works of Kurt Weill. Yours, Peter

07 Jul 97 - 04:59 PM (#8163)
Subject: RE: Music for Pirate Jenny
From: Peter Timmerman

Here is, I hope, some help off the sheet music, which it turned out I had. With a few caveats. Being Brecht/Weill the music is very sophisticated, with all kinds of 9ths and 13ths, etc. on the piano; and the version I have located is a guitar version by John W. Duarte (Brecht/Weill Songalbum: Music Sales G.m.b.h. (copyright date unknown). I have edited and condensed the chords, but I think they are not quite right for pop. guitar (if that is what you are after). It may be that Steeleye Span used a simpler version (I don’t know their version) or in some other keys. I have also (for lack of time) just given the basic structure. The chord changes are so obvious that you shouldn’t have difficulty figuring out where they go. In the verses the chords usually wander back and forth in sequence, e.g. Cm/Cm9/Cm/Cm9 until the double slashes for the next main change.

PIRATE JENNY

You gentlemen.....

Cm/Cm9// A7/Dm// Aflat/Gflat7Eflatm/Gflat/Aflat/gflat7/eflatm/gflat7/aflatm// Eflatm/Aflat13// Bm/fsharp7/Em7/Daug/Em7/Daug//

And the ship, the Black Freighter...

Bm/Fsharp/Em/Fsharp//

(repeat verses, and then the last verse repeats to the following, and then goes on...)

And they’ll say, kill them now or later... Aflatm/Eflat m/Bm/Eflatm/Bm/G7// Hoppla! /Fsharp9/

And the ship.... Bm/Fsharp/Em/Fsharp.

Yours, Peter

08 Jul 97 - 04:51 AM (#8200)
Subject: RE: Music for Pirate Jenny
From: Ted In Australia

Peter, thanxheaps:) Just what I was looking for. Regards Ted

26 Nov 10 - 08:28 PM (#3041168)
Subject: RE: Music for Pirate Jenny
From: Charley Noble

What a frightening assortment of chords!!!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

26 Nov 10 - 08:46 PM (#3041175)
Subject: RE: Music for Pirate Jenny
From: GUEST

Go back and chant the cycle of fifths ....



The smoke from your stack is burning our eyes...why scorch yesterday's corned beef?



Sincerely,

Gargoyole


slurring/rolling/resolving... all the same ... audience anticipation.

26 Nov 10 - 08:50 PM (#3041178)
Subject: RE: Music for Pirate Jenny
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

Aye-Eye-I ... forgot on the otherside (brass) it is the cycle of fourths.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Like the drain in a spit-toon, on oneside it swirls left and on the other right - unless you are on the bottom looking up.

14 May 14 - 01:18 AM (#3625922)
Subject: RE: Music for Pirate Jenny
From: GUEST,Ted in Australia

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