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From: email protected(Paul Tarvydas)
Date: 19 Jul 95 19:22:14 GMT
Subject: CRD: Jethro Tull, Minstrel in the Gallery (acoustic)
Minstrel in the Gallery acoustic portion
(transcribed by Paul Tarvydas email protected)
all chords relative to capo
o = all strings open (if preceding Dsus2, then strings 1-4 open,
if preceding A, then strings 1-5 open, if preceding G, then 1-6
note: The last line "the friends he'd made" is a typical Andersonian
chord-morph. You should play with the fingering until you find
a combination which moves the fewest fingers at one time. Anderson
likes to keep one finger planted and change the chords around it. In
this case, I think he does the following. He plants the 3rd finger of
the left hand as he changes from Dm to A7sus4. Am to C, he plants the
1st finger. C to Cadd9 he lifts the 3rd and places 2nd on the 6th
string, keeping the 1st and 4th fingers planted.
-|--A0---Asus4--0-----Am0----A7sus4-0-----0C----Cadd9/F#-0-------Dsus2-0----Dsus4-3-----Dm1-
-|--2-----3-----1-----3-----1-----1--------3-----3-----3-
-|--2-----2-----2-----0-----0-----0--------2-----2-----2-
-|--2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----0--------0-----0-----0-
-|--0-----0-----0-----0-----3-----3----------------------
-|--------------------------3-----2----------------------
-|--1-----3--------0--0-----0--0-----0--3----------------
-|--1-----3--------0--3-----0--2-----0--3----------------
-|--2-----0--------0--2-----0--2-----0--0----------------
-|--3-----0--------0--0-----0--2-----0--0----------------
-|--3-----2-----------------0--0-----0--2----------------
-|--1-----3--------------------------0--3----------------
The minstrel in the gallery
looked down upon the smiling faces.
He met the gazes - observed the spaces
between the old men's cackle.
He brewed a song of love and hatred -
[G]
oblique suggestions and he waited.
FHe polaCrized the FpumpGkin Ceaters -
Fstatic-Chumming FpaGnel-Cbeaters -
Ffreshly Cday-glow'd FfacGtory Ccheaters
F(salarCied and FcolGlar-Cscrubbing).
He titillated men-of-action -
belly warming, hands still rubbing
on the parts they never mention.
He pacified the nappy-suffering,
infant-bleating one-line jokers -
FT.V. CdocuFmenGtary Cmakers
F(overCfed and FunGderCtakers).
Sunday paper backgammon players -
Ffamily-Cscarred and Fwomen-Chaters.
Then he Fcalled the Cband down Fto Gthe the Cstage
the DmfrieA7sus4nds he'd AmmadeC.F Cadd9/F#
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