Here's a song by Richard Thompson, "The Poor Ditching Boy," off _Starring as Henry the Human Fly_. fortunately, this album has been rereleased by Rykodisk. It's definitely worth the money. It's in open-g: dgdgbd You should embellish these chords as much as you feel confident to do and/or is tasteful. Richard certainly does. The nature of the alternate means that the open strings will never be dissonant with each other or notes in the g major scale, so if in doubt they will be (chordiearchive.chordie.com)