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This is "Watching the Apples Grow" from Stan Rogers' really excellent album Fogarty's Cove. There's some very good backup guitar which I would really appreciate someone tabbing. It's probably Curly Boy Stubbs doing it, with Stan just playing rhythm, but I could be wrong. Capo 2 frets up; the chords shown are just the chord shapes as if the capo wasn't there, so the REAL chords (if you don't have a capo) would be a whole step up, e.g. in the first verse: D,G,D,Bm,G,D
CIt's early up, Ontario farm, chicken crow for Fday I wish I grew CAnnapolis apples up above Fundy's AmBay FOh it Cseems so far away
COn the ridge above Acadia's town to the valley down beFlow The evening shadow Cfalls upon the family listening to the radiAmo FAnd Cwatching the apples grow
Chorus:
FDown on the farm, Cback among the family, Faway from OntariCo FHear the ladies Csinging to their men, dancing it heel and Amtoe FAnd Cwatching the apples grow
[There's a fiddle solo at this point. If anyone would like to] [transcribe it, that'd be really cool. I mean transcribe it for] [fiddle, I could probably get it for guitar, with a lot of trouble.]
COntario, y'know I've seen a place I'd rather Fbe Your scummy lakes and Ccity of Toronto don't do a damn thing for Amme FI'd Crather live by the sea
CI've watched the V's of geese go by, the foxfoot in the Fsnow I've climbed the ridge of CGaspereaux Mt., looking to the valley beAmlow FAnd Cwatching the apples grow.
Chorus Guitar Solo:
Cv . . . v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . . e----------3---3-3-----------------|-----3-------------------------0---|e B-/5--------------\3---1-------1-1-|/5------\3---1-------1-1-1---------|B G--------------------------2-------|-----------------2-----------------|G D----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|D A----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|A E----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|E
Fv . . . v . . . Cv . . . v . . . v . . . v . . . Amv . . . Fv . . . e--1---1-1-1-0-----0---0-0-0-------|-------------------------1---------|e B--------------3-------------3-1---|-1---1-1-1-0-----------------------|B G----------------------------------|-----------------2-----------------|G D----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|D A----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|A E----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|E
Cv . . . v . . . v . . . v . . . e--0-1-0----------------------------|e B--------3-1-0---0-1----------------|B G--------------2--------------------|G D-----------------------------------|D A-----------------------------------|A E-----------------------------------|E
Repeat chorus twice, then wrap it up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Notes on the Solo: If anyone knows who's playing this, please tell me! It's played quick & snappy- keeps you on your toes! When he slides from/to a note it's always started on a whole step (two frets) above/below, whichever's appropriate. The backup Am and F following it are single strums only (this goes for the rest of the song, too). There are probably some grace notes & stuff which I didn't get, 'cause this is my first attempt at transcribing anything. Nevertheless, I think it's pretty good. Notes on the Song: Great song! The rhythm is somewhat bluegrassy, a fast boom-chicka (bass note - strum chord down/up). The only real trouble I had was figuring out where the chord switch was on the last line of each verse. There's a run from F to C which I play something like this:
Fv . . . Cv . . . v . . . v . . . |-1---------------------------0---| |-1---------------------------1---| |-2---------------------------0---| |-3-------3---2---0---2-------2---| |-3-----------------------3---3---| |---------------------------------|
So I'm not entirely sure where the actual switch is, but I think it's right the way I finally put it. Notes on the Tablature: 'v' is the beat. '. . .' are the notes in-between, though the middle '.' could be considered a lighter downbeat. '/' is a slide up the note following. '\' is a slide down to the note following. Please send any comments, questions, queries, criticisms, about this transcription to ME because Stan Rogers ain't around no more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Peter Keller [p_keller@ids.net]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Wakefield, Rhode Island~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!MORE BLUEGRASS!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~