INTRODUCTION
In the tablature for the introduction, the symbols "^" and "v" denote
down-strums and up-strums. The C-chords are played using the {310230}
fingering by Wes, but the {010230} fingering isn't very different. It
sounds pretty good if you change the pattern slightly, too - either by
doing only single downstrums (no upstrums) in most of the intro, or by
playing with fingers, using the thumb to play the bass run and the
index, middle and ring fingers to play the treble chords. Wes plays
with a pick, and I've found my usual favourite (a 0.60 mm John Dunlop
nylon type) too stiff to comfortably do the double strums at the right
speed. My only thinner pick was a 0.38 mm Jim Dunlop nylon pick which
makes the double strums easy but is a bit too pliable to let me
emphasise the bass runs, so I got a 0.46 mm JD which is the best for
my acoustic guitar but the optimum depends on you and your guitar.
CHD: G C G Em
^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ ^ v ^
|------3-------3-------3-------3--|------3---------------0----------|
|------0-------0-------1-------1--|------0---------------0----------|
|------0-------0-------0-------0--|------0---------------0----------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|----------0h2-----3-------2p0----|---------------------------------|
|--3------------------------------|--3-----------2-p-0-----------2--|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
CHD: G C G
^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^
|------3-------3-------3-------3--|------3---3---3---3--------------|
|------0-------0-------1-------1--|------0---0---0---0--------------|
|------0-------0-------0-------0--|------0---0---0---0--------------|
|---------------------------------|------0---0---0h2----------------|
|----------0h2-----3-------2p0----|---------------------------------|
|--3------------------------------|--3------------------------------|
CHORDS AND LYRICS (Bass runs are shown in square brackets [C B A] and
{PLAY INTRODUCTION}
Midweek and we reached Scarlet town
SOL DO DO/SI LAmI was almost dying of thirst
SOL DO SOLWe parked the car in some old schoolyard
The windscreen caked in dirt
RE RE/DO RE/DOThere was no water in the engine
RE/SI LAm LAm/SI DO RELeft no tread upon the tyres
The electrics were broke 'cause you went mad
MIm/FA# SOL DO SOLYou ripped out all the wires
SOL DO SOL
G C G ,
Across the road, a small cafe
In the state of Disrepair
SOL DO SOLYou went for papers and a shave
SOL DO RE DO SI LASo I saved you a chair
I knew it wasn't the journey's end
LAm LAm/SI DO REAnd that your dream was incomplete
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImBut I just could not stand anymore
I was dead upon my feet
SOL DO RE DO SI LAI was dead upon my feet
There's nothing there in the market square
LAm LAm/SI DO REBut the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImI was dead upon my feet
I sing the red rose and the briar
Am Am/B C D (G in intro)
I sing the red rose and the bri-ar
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
SOL DO SOL
The waitress told me her life story
SOL DO DO/SI LAmShe'd always meant to up and go
She wiped her cup on her red pinafore
SOL DO RE DO SI LAAs we waited for you to show
RE RE/DO RE/DO RE/SIAnd I told her just a little of you
But left the picture incomplete
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImYou still weren't there to paint it in person
MIm/FA# SOL DO SOLSo I skipped out on the street
I skipped out on the street
SOL DO SOL
The newsagent grinned, he said that you'd been in
You bought a local paper and some shaves
SOL DO SOLAnd the washroom attendant said that you'd freshened up
SOL DO RE DO SI LAThat you'd left but you hadn't payed
And I couldn't figure out where you were
LAm LAm/SI DO RESo I went back to look near the car
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImThere's nothing there where it should have been
Just oil on dirt and tar
SOL SOL/SI DO RE DO SI LAJust oil on dirt and tar
There's nothing there in the market square
LAm LAm/SI DO REBut the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImAnd there's nothing there where it should have been
I sing the red rose and the briar
LAm DO REI sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D [E F#] (G in intro)
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION}
SOL DO SOL
I saw it parked way down the street
In a garage off on the right
SOL DO SOLAnd a man said, "Get your hands off, son
SOL DO RE DO SI LAI just traded that wreck for a motorbike"
There was nothing left of mine inside
LAm LAm/SI DO RENot even the broken radio-o-o
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImAnd I couldn't figure out where that left me
So I went back to look for Rose
G , C G
The Cafe Rouge was a lunchtime rush
Of regulars yelling for food
SOL DO SOLAnd the service in there left a lot to be desired
SOL SOL/SI DO DO/SI RE DO SI LAAll the regulars were getting rude
I saw an apron thrown over a chair
LAm LAm/SI DO REA note said, "Hey John, we're gone, we're gone"
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImAnd I just smiled 'cause I loved you both
So I put the apron on
SOL DO RE DO SI LAI put the apron on
Still nothing there in the market square
LAm LAm/SI DO REBut the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImWell I just put the apron on
I sing the red rose and the briar
LAm DO REI sing the red rose and the briar
LAm DO REI sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D [E F#] (G in intro)
I sing the red rose and the briar
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
In Scarlet town where I was born
DO SOLThere was a fair maid dwellin'
SOL SOL/FA# MIm MIm7Oh, the colour of her hair was brown
And her name......
DO LAmAnd her name was......
DO LAmAnd her name was......
C D [E F#] (G in intro)
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION} G
NOTES
0. According to Stephen M. Webb , "her name was..."
Barbara Allan as in the song "Barbara Allan" which takes place in
`Scarlet Town where I was born,' ends up with a rose and briar.
I don't have this song, so I didn't know this. I though it might have
been Helen from "I went to visit Helen by St. Helen's Park" (which is
in Hastings, where Wes used to live) from the song "Pound, Pound, Pound"
on the live & unaccompanied album "It Happened One Night".
1. Many thanks to Patrick Barnett for his
generosity and help in compiling this posting and Chris Inglesi
for pointing out the fact that it's "fair maid
dwellin'" rather than "family dwellin'" which I had at first.
2. All the chords are pretty much the basic fingerings but Wes uses a
modified Em [0 2 2 0 0 3] and Em7 is [0 2 0 0 0 0]. For those of you
unfamiliar with CRD notation, the chords with a slash such as C/B denote
chords played with a different bass-note to usual. The part before the
slash is the chord and the note after it is the bass note. So C/B is a
basic C chord [0 3 2 0 1 0] but with the bass-note changed to B becoming
[x 2 2 0 1 0]. In fact you needn't worry too much about the 2nd fretted
D string. What is important to note is that the bass-note is played on
the most convenient string, not always on the bass-E string. In this
song, the bass-note doesn't actually have to be the lowest note played -
I've used this notation to denote the bass notes in the bass-strum
style.
3. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)
or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd
like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,
"The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and
"Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do
them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out
the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded
so far are:
From "The Name Above The Title":
I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
Save A Little Room For Me
The People's Drug
The Person You Are
Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by
Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks
from "It Happened One Night":
Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
- thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"
Kiss/Lovers' Society {coming shortly}
and from "Here Comes The Groom"
The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett
and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of
When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again
These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its
mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by
using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new
maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid
archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find
the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:
unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Host unix.hensa.ac.uk
Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
FILE -r--r--r-- 80 Jun 16 09:21 Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
4. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also
uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:
/pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal
Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)
which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be
a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.
INTRODUCTION
In the tablature for the
..introduction, the symbols
.."^" and "v" denote
down-strums and up-strums. The
..C-chords are played using the
..{310230}
fingering by Wes, but the {010230}
..fingering isn't very different.
..It
sounds pretty good if you change
..the pattern slightly, too -
..either by
doing only single downstrums (no
..upstrums) in most of the intro,
..or by
playing with fingers, using the
..thumb to play the bass run
..and the
index, middle and ring fingers to
..play the treble chords. Wes
..plays
with a pick, and I've found my
..usual favourite (a 0.60 mm John
..Dunlop
nylon type) too stiff to
..comfortably do the double strums
..at the right
speed. My only thinner pick was a
..0.38 mm Jim Dunlop nylon pick
..which
makes the double strums easy but
..is a bit too pliable to
..let me
emphasise the bass runs, so I got
..a 0.46 mm JD which is the best
..for
my acoustic guitar but the optimum
..depends on you and your guitar.
CHD: G C
.. G Em
^ v ^ v ^ v ^
..v ^ v ^ ^ v ^
|------3-------3-------3-------3-
|------0-------0-------1-------1-
|------0-------0-------0-------0-
|--------------------------------
|----------0h2-----3-------2p0---
|--3-----------------------------
...
-|-|------3---------------0------
-|-|------0---------------0------
-|-|------0---------------0------
-|-|-----------------------------
-|-|-----------------------------
-|-|--3-----------2-p-0----------
...
-|----|
-|----|
-|----|
-|----|
-|----|
-|-2--|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
CHD: G C
.. G
^ v ^ v ^ v ^
..v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^
|------3-------3-------3-------3-
|------0-------0-------1-------1-
|------0-------0-------0-------0-
|--------------------------------
|----------0h2-----3-------2p0---
|--3-----------------------------
...
-|-|------3---3---3---3-----------
-|-|------0---0---0---0-----------
-|-|------0---0---0---0-----------
-|-|------0---0---0h2-------------
-|-|------------------------------
-|-|--3---------------------------
...
-|---|
-|---|
-|---|
-|---|
-|---|
-|---|
1 2 3 4
CHORDS AND LYRICS (Bass runs
..are shown in square brackets [C
..B A] and
{PLAY INTRODUCTION}
Midweek and we reached Scarlet
..town
I was almost dying of thirst
SOL DO SOLWe parked the car in some old
..schoolyard
SOL DO RE DO SIThe windscreen caked in dirt
LA
There was no water in the engine
RE/SI LAm LAm/SI DO RELeft no tread upon the tyres
SOL DOThe electrics were broke 'cause
..you went mad
MIm/FA# SOL DO SOLYou ripped out all the wires
SOL DO SOL
G C G ,
Across the road, a small cafe
In the state of Disrepair
SOL DO SOLYou went for papers and a shave
SOL DO RE DO SI LASo I saved you a chair
I knew it wasn't the journey's end
LAmAnd that your dream was
LAm/SI DO RE.. incomplete
But I just could not stand
SOL/FA# MIm.. anymore
SOL DO SOLI was dead upon my feet
I was dead upon my feet
RE RE/DO
There's nothing there in the
..market square
LAm LAm/SIBut the ghost of the Scarlet
DO RE..town-crier
I was dead upon my feet
LAm DO REI sing the red rose and the briar
Am Am/B C D (G
..in intro)
I sing the red rose and the bri-ar
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
SOL DO SOL
The waitress told me her life
..story
SOL DO DO/SI LAmShe'd always meant to up and go
SOL DO SOLShe wiped her cup on her red
..pinafore
SOL DO RE DO SIAs we waited for you to show
RE RE/DO RE/DO
And I told her just a little of
RE/SI..you
But left the picture incomplete
SOL DO SOLYou still weren't there to paint
SOL/FA# MIm..it in person
So I skipped out on the street
SOL DO SOLI skipped out on the street
The newsagent grinned, he said
SOL..that you'd been in
SOL DOYou bought a local paper and some
..shaves
SOL DOAnd the washroom attendant said
SOL..that you'd freshened up
That you'd left but you hadn't
RE DO SI LA..payed
RE RE/DO RE/DOAnd I couldn't figure out where
..you were
LAm LAm/SISo I went back to look near the
DO RE..car
There's nothing there where it
SOL SOL/FA# MIm..should have been
MIm/FA# SOL DO SOLJust oil on dirt and tar
Just oil on dirt and tar
RE RE/DO
There's nothing there in the
..market square
LAm LAm/SIBut the ghost of the Scarlet
DO RE..town-crier
And there's nothing there where it
SOL SOL/FA# MIm..should have been
LAm DO REI sing the red rose and the briar
I sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D [E F#] (G in
..intro)
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION}
I saw it parked way down the
..street
In a garage off on the right
SOL DO SOLAnd a man said, "Get your hands
..off, son
SOL DOI just traded that wreck for a
RE DO SI LA..motorbike"
There was nothing left of mine
RE/SI..inside
LAm LAm/SI DO RENot even the broken radio-o-o
And I couldn't figure out where
SOL SOL/FA# MIm..that left me
SOL DO SOLSo I went back to look for Rose
G , C G
The Cafe Rouge was a lunchtime
..rush
SOL DO DO/SI LAmOf regulars yelling for food
SOL DO SOLAnd the service in there left a
..lot to be desired
SOL SOL/SI DO DO/SI REAll the regulars were getting rude
RE RE/DO RE/DO
I saw an apron thrown over a
RE/SI..chair
A note said, "Hey John, we're
DO RE..gone, we're gone"
SOL DO SOLAnd I just smiled 'cause I loved
..you both
SOL DO SOLSo I put the apron on
SOL DO RE DO SI LAI put the apron on
RE RE/DO RE/DO
Still nothing there in the market
RE/SI..square
But the ghost of the Scarlet
DO RE..town-crier
SOL DO SOL SOL/FA# MImWell I just put the apron on
I sing the red rose and the briar
LAm DO REI sing the red rose and the briar
LAm DO REI sing the red rose and the briar
Am C D
..[E F#] (G in intro)
I sing the red rose and the briar
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
SOL
In Scarlet town where I was born
There was a fair maid dwellin'
SOL SOL/FA# MImOh, the colour of her hair was
MIm7..brown
And her name......
DO LAmAnd her name was......
DO LAmAnd her name was......
C D [E F#] (G in intro)
{REPEAT INTRODUCTION} G
NOTES
0. According to Stephen M. Webb ,
.."her name was..."
Barbara Allan as in the song
.."Barbara Allan" which takes
..place in
`Scarlet Town where I was
..born,' ends up with a rose
..and briar.
I don't have this song, so I
..didn't know this. I though it
..might have
been Helen from "I went to
..visit Helen by St. Helen's Park"
.. (which is
in Hastings, where Wes used to
..live) from the song "Pound,
..Pound, Pound"
on the live & unaccompanied
..album "It Happened One Night".
1. Many thanks to Patrick Barnett
..for his
generosity and help in
..compiling this posting and
..Chris Inglesi
for pointing out the fact
..that it's "fair maid
dwellin'" rather than "family
..dwellin'" which I had at first.
2. All the chords are pretty much
..the basic fingerings but Wes
.. uses a
modified Em [0 2 2 0 0 3] and
..Em7 is [0 2 0 0 0 0]. For
..those of you
unfamiliar with CRD notation,
..the chords with a slash such as
..C/B denote
chords played with a different
..bass-note to usual. The part
..before the
slash is the chord and the note
..after it is the bass note. So
..C/B is a
basic C chord [0 3 2 0 1 0] but
..with the bass-note changed to B
..becoming
[x 2 2 0 1 0]. In fact you
..needn't worry too much about the
..2nd fretted
D string. What is important to
..note is that the bass-note is
..played on
the most convenient string, not
..always on the bass-E string.
..In this
song, the bass-note doesn't
..actually have to be the lowest
..note played -
I've used this notation to
..denote the bass notes in
..the bass-strum
style.
3. Feel free to email me with any
..comments (see header for email
..address)
or to request tabs for songs.
..If you have a favourite JWH
..song you'd
like me to have a go at, let me
..know. I now have the four full
..albums,
"The Name Above The Title",
.."It Happened One Night",
.."Why We Fight" and
"Here Comes The Groom". If I
..haven't got the songs, I could
.. only do
them if you send me an audio
..tape with them on. If you could
.. work out
the lyrics, that would be a
..great help. The songs I've
..tabbed/chorded
so far are:
From "The Name Above The
..Title":
I Can Tell (When
..You're Telling Lies)
Save A Little Room
..For Me
The People's Drug
The Person You Are
Long Dead Gone
.. } lyrics supplied by
Backing Out
.. } Alan Pulliam - thanks
from "It Happened One
..Night":
Roy Orbison Knows
..(The Best Man's Song)
.. - thanks to Will
..Vaughan & "Sen"
Kiss/Lovers'
..Society {coming shortly}
and from "Here Comes The
..Groom"
The Red Rose And
..The Briar } thanks to Patrick
..Barnett
and coming soon, the version
..not from "Here Comes The Groom"
..of
When The Sun Comes
..Out } thanks to Patrick
..again
These are archived on the
..guitar tab archives,
..ftp.nevada.edu and its
mirror sites such as
..ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local
.. mirror sites by
using a program such as
.."archie". Cal Woods & Jim
..Carson, the new
maintainers of the Nevada
..archive have kindly placed in it
..a file to aid
archie searches. It is called
.."Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You
..can find
the guitar directory of any
..nearby mirror sites using:
unix% archie -m5 -N
..Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Host unix.hensa.ac.uk
Location:
../pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
FILE -r--r--r--
.. 80 Jun 16 09:21
..Nevada.Guitar.Archive
Wes's tabs are archived under
..???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
4. The FTP archive at Trinity
..College Dublin
..(ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also
uploaded a lot of Wes songs in
..the directory:
../pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
In addition to the songs I've
..worked out, there is a copy
..of Crystal
Blue Persuasion, originally by
..Tommy James and the
..Chandelles (sp?)
which appears on "The Name
..Above The Title". There doesn't
..appear to be
a mirror site to Trinity
..College Dublin.
Tablature chitarra di WESLEY HARDING JOHN The Red Rose And The Briar Skitarrate per suonare la tua musica, studiare scale, posizioni per chitarra, cercare, gestire, richiedere e inviare accordi, testi e spartiti