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Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)

27 Oct 00 - 01:20 PM (#328611)
Subject: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Fishpicker

Does anyone have the chords to the Lenny Gallant song Island Clay?

Thanks, Greg


27 Oct 00 - 01:52 PM (#328631)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Clinton Hammond2

Ummm... Lemme check the archive... I used to do that one.. but it didn't last long in the set list... good tune eh...

Back in a few...

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27 Oct 00 - 02:55 PM (#328674)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: ISLAND CLAY (Lennie Gallant)
From: Clinton Hammond2

O.k... now if I can get the damn HTML code worked out I should be able to help ya...

This is in the album key (D), but I suspect that Lenny is using a dropped tuning or other... But I worked it out again in standard, no capo...

This instrumental opening has all the chords in the verse in it...
D, A, D, A, G, D, A, G

But after 'hill' or 'lawn' for instance, instead of going to the A, stay on D and grab the run on the D string that goes 4th, 2nd open...


ISLAND CLAY

This old house once stood proud on a hill
Of pine and cedar from the land
Cut by my fathers hand
And hauled up from the mill.
Now she stares, at her life spread on the lawn,
At strangers picking through her bones.
They take them for their own
And haul them far away.

[The 'chorus' is a nice little run from
Bm, D6th add 9th**, G, A Em
and the last line is G, A, D.]

And the auctioneer he sings his songs and the people pay.
Old voices echo from this house now dark and grey
And cold as island clay.

This old farm, eighty acres of life,
Sweat, and iron-reddened soil,
Paid little for my toil
But saw us through all right,
Till the company came
And bought land up all around.
Soon the market prices fell.
I took another loan
And ploughed it underground.

But tomorrow morning they will come and have their way,
Though their hands touch not he soil and never will pay
The price of island clay.

These old hands turned the sod and tossed the seed.
These hands worked hard and they were strong,
But they couldn't hold a printed paper deed.

From the moment that they signed this land away,
These old hands are getting colder every day,
As cold as island clay.


** a D6th add 9th is just he bar chord Bm, without the bar, so an Am, slid up to the 3rd fret...

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27 Oct 00 - 03:07 PM (#328687)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Clinton Hammond2

YAY!!!

It worked... stupid HTML...

Hope that helps eh... lemme know...

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27 Oct 00 - 03:23 PM (#328696)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Fishpicker

Yes Thats great and thanks very much Clinton for all your help. It is a great song.

Greg


28 Feb 13 - 08:09 PM (#3484884)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Chords to Lenny Gallant Song
From: Beer

I was trying to play this song today and I was stumped on a few words and chords. Started doing a search on the net and this is where I was directed.   Mudcat
Thanks,
Adrien


27 Jun 13 - 10:49 PM (#3531159)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)
From: GUEST,Gone Tronna

Hi
Does anyone know the chords for 'Peter's Dream'?
Love that song.
Thank you


24 Sep 13 - 07:43 AM (#3560785)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)
From: GUEST

I ALso want chords to Peters Dream


07 Oct 13 - 08:40 AM (#3564902)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)
From: GUEST

Did anyone succeed in getting the chords to Peter's Dream?


07 Oct 13 - 10:43 AM (#3564921)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Island Clay (Lennie Gallant)
From: GUEST,leeneia

Hello, Guest.

It would be best if you started a new thread with 'Peter's Dream' in the title. That way 'catters who know the song will see your request. Since this thread is called 'Island Clay,' few people will know you are asking about 'Peter's Dream.'

Here's the URL for an old thread that has the lyrics:

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=15667#142371

No chords, but that's a beginning.

(The song is not archived in the Digital Tradition. See box at the top of the home page.)