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Tuning: E A D G B E
Song: "The Boar's Head" Album: "The Light Came Down" Artist: Josh Garrels Tab interpreter: David Codington [NOTE] Several lines of this song are written and thus sung in Latin. This translation is not mine; I found it at http://genius.com/Josh-garrels-the-boars-head-lyrics. ALSO, note that the words to this song are the words of a macaronic 15th century English Christmas carol. The boar's head, as I understand, was a delicacy at the old English Yuletide feast. Check out more history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol. ALSO, if you play with a piano the first eight notes (NOT chords) of the song, they follow the succession of C/B/A/G/F/E/D/C down one octave. Overlapping these notes of melody are the chords. I have listed the chords (as they are in the song, to the best of my ability) below. Because the chords here are overlapping the sing-song melody of C/B/A/G/F/E/D/C, they don't sound absolutely accurate as written below. Whether or not what I've written is accurate is up for you to judge, though this seems to me like a decent place to start. [INTRO] C G Am G F C G C / G C G C G C [VERSE 1]
The bCoar's Ghead in Amhand bearG I F C G C / G C G Bedecked with bays and rosemary And IC pray Gyou my mAmasters beG merry F C G C / G C G Quot estis in convivio
[CHORUS]
CCapuGt aprAmi defeGro F C G C / G C G Reddens laudes Domino
[VERSE 2]
The bCoar's Ghead asAm I understGand F C G C / G C G Is the rarest dish in all the land When Cthus bGedeckedAm with a gaGy garland F C G C / G C G Let us servire cantico
[CHORUS]
CCapuGt aprAmi defeGro F C G C / G C G / C G Am G F C G C / G C G C G C G Reddens laudes Domino
[VERSE 3]
Our sCteward Ghath proAmvided tGhis In hoFnour ofC the GKing of Cbliss WhichC on thiGs day toAm be serveGd is F C G C / G C G In Reginensis atrio
[CHORUS]
CCapuGt aprAmi defeGro F C G C / G C G Reddens laudes Domino CCapuGt aprAmi defeGro F C G C / G C G / C G Am G F C G C / G C G C G C Reddens laudes Domino
***************** [TRANSLATION] The boar's head in hand bear I Bedecked with bays and rosemary And I pray you my masters be merry As many as are at the feast I bring in the boar's head, Giving thanks to the LORD The boar's head as I understand Is the rarest dish in all the land When thus bedecked with a gay garland Let us serve it with a song I bring in the boar's head, Giving thanks to the LORD Our steward hath provided this In honor of the King of bliss Which on this day to be served is In the hall of Queen's (College, Oxford) I bring in the boar's head, Giving thanks to the LORD. I bring in the boar's head, Giving thanks to the LORD [NOTE] I cannot say what good fun it was to listen to this song for the first time, playing it over and over again, listening carefully for the chords. Josh Garrels is a musical genius!