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 Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:50 pm |
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Thousandaire
Joined: 21 Apr 2008
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I tabbed out the banjo part. Since this really is a co-write between Willie and Ketch I'm posting it here.
Note that Willie plays this with the capo on 2. If you want to be in the same key, capo on 2 and adjust the fifth string up a whole tone (to A).
Otherwise, you can play this in standard tuning without any adjustments.
Note that this is performed in a two-finger thumb lead old timey style. The thumb picks out every note except for the first string, which the index finger picks. The other three fingers don't actually do anything other than rest on the head of the banjo.
I provided an example index finger part in the first measure, but I didn't want to keep tabbing it out; it follows pretty much the same rhythmic patter throughout the song.
If you're interested, check out my video tutorial here!!
https://youtu.be/b4pW7simQMs
Lyrics:
One fair girl with fine yellow hair
Wildflower of the west country
Plucked one night for a stormy ride
On a winding road to the east
One fair girl at the Birmingham Mill
For a dollar and a half times three
See the spinning wheels turn, she is young, but she'll learn
With her slender white hands to weave
Twelve small stacks in a row row row
And a girl of five times three
See the mill boss patrol, hear the factory bells toll
And the girls look as sad as can be
And she cried for her home country
One little spark set a light to a flame
And the fire climbed through to the eaves
And the roof it crashed and the girls all dashed
And they all cried "oh god please"
And she crawled on her hands and her knees
At the Birmingham Mill where the wildflowers grow
Round the grave of the girl so fair
See the lily bells bloom round her cold marble tomb
And they come in the spring of the year |
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