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Rastaman705

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:02 pm

Raisin' a Ruckus Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 97 Location: Wilmington, DE USA

I think its in D

brodank

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:31 am

Guest Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 1656

Dm!

Rastaman705

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:50 am

Raisin' a Ruckus Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 97 Location: Wilmington, DE USA

i was close enough

brodank

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:07 am

Guest Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 1656

if you say so......

BanjoAndy

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:58 pm

Tearin' it Down Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 194 Location: Clifton Park NY

Been trying to figure this one out for awhile but for some reason I just can't seem to get it. I know that there is a Dm in there and it goes to a quick hit on the F chord.
Also it seems to be set up like a standard fiddle tune with the repeating A and B parts, the lyrics however don't fit this pattern.

(hey, my 50th post, I'm Raisin A Ruckus now boys)

TexasBoy

Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:09 pm

Tearin' it Down Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 160 Location: Gladewater, TX

what are all the lyrics by the way??

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Mark Dooley

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:29 am

Lil' Birdie Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Wallasey, Merseyside, UK

A late arriving UK fan of OCMS this seems to work for me for the sung bits of Hard To Tell...

Verse:
[D]Now the way things look around this town
Better [F]find a pretty woman before the sun goes down
If you [D]need a place to lay your head
Better [F]find a pretty woman in a [C]pretty big [D]bed

Chorus:
Its [D]hard to tell, hard to tell
You [F]gotta get a woman its [C]hard to [D]tell
Cant be sure, cant be sure
Is [F] she gonna be your [C]pretty little [D]girl
Your [C]pretty little girl

but I see what you mean about Dm for the fiddle solos.

brodank

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:14 pm

Guest Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 1656

no, the whole song is in Dm for sure

jkorp

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:42 pm

Charlie Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 976 Location: The Right Coast

Try this:

Verse:
[Dm]Now the way things look around this town
Better find a pretty woman before the sun goes down
If you need a place to lay your head
Better find a pretty woman in a pretty big bed

Chorus:
[Dm]Its hard to tell, hard to tell
You gotta get a woman its hard to tell
Cant be sure, cant be sure
Is she gonna be your pretty little girl

Alternately you can play the chorus like this, with a quick C, but there is no F:

Chorus:
[Dm]Its hard to tell, [C]hard to tell
[Dm]You gotta get a woman its hard to tell
Cant be sure, [C]cant be sure
[Dm]Is she gonna be your pretty little girl

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Mark Dooley

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:00 am

Lil' Birdie Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Wallasey, Merseyside, UK

Thanks to you both for that information I'll get my ears syringed and try again!

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Mark Dooley

Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:00 am

Lil' Birdie Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Wallasey, Merseyside, UK

Agree about it basically being Dm but there still seems to me to be variation on the normal guitar Dm [XOO231] when I play along. Might it be the Dm varient [XO3231] is what I was hearing as F and even maybe Dm7 [XOO211] might be what I thought were C's. What do you think?

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Simon

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:05 am

Old Crow Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 508 Location: The Otherside

Mark Dooley wrote:

What do you think?

I think it's oke Rolling Eyes

jkorp

Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:10 pm

Charlie Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 976 Location: The Right Coast

Mark Dooley wrote:

I think what it's doing on the second part of the instrumental breaks between verses is:

1-----2-----3----4----1----2----3----&----4
Dm Dm Dm F | Dm Dm Dm C Dm

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GumboStu

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:04 am

*Irish Stew* Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 3666 Location: Joe's Cornfield

thanks for that - it's how it sounds to me too there jkorp!

I just saw this - it's the best shot of what Willie is doing that i've seen - view it in full screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvIVxLstzWA

EDIT
from the beginning of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_di_obExIY

i'd say Willie is in drop D tuning - you can hear that low D note as he tunes in at 12 seconds into the vid

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