The Red Rose and the Briar John Wesley Harding
|------3-------3-------3-------3--|------3---------------0----------|<br/> |------0-------0-------1-------1--|------0---------------0----------|<br/> |------0-------0-------0-------0--|------0---------------0----------|<br/> |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|<br/> |----------0h2-----3-------2p0----|---------------------------------|<br/> |--3------------------------------|--3-----------2-p-0-----------2--|<br/> |------3-------3-------3-------3--|------3---3---3---3--------------|<br/> |------0-------0-------1-------1--|------0---0---0---0--------------|<br/> |------0-------0-------0-------0--|------0---0---0---0--------------|<br/> |---------------------------------|------0---0---0h2----------------|<br/> |----------0h2-----3-------2p0----|---------------------------------|<br/> |--3------------------------------|--3------------------------------|<br/> CHORDS AND LYRICS (Bass runs are shown in square brackets [C B A] and<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> G C G<br/> Midweek and we reached Scarlet town<br/> G C C/B Am<br/> I was almost dying of thirst<br/> G C G<br/> We parked the car in some old schoolyard<br/> G C D [C B A]<br/> The windscreen caked in dirt<br/> D D/C D/C<br/> There was no water in the engine<br/> D/B Am Am/B C D<br/> Left no tread upon the tyres<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> The electrics were broke 'cause you went mad<br/> Em/F# G C G<br/> You ripped out all the wires<br/> <br/> G C G<br/> <br/> G C G ,<br/> Across the road, a small cafe<br/> G C C/B Am<br/> In the state of Disrepair<br/> G C G<br/> You went for papers and a shave<br/> G C D [C B A]<br/> So I saved you a chair<br/> D D/C D/B Em<br/> I knew it wasn't the journey's end<br/> Am Am/B C D<br/> And that your dream was incomplete<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> But I just could not stand anymore<br/> G C G<br/> I was dead upon my feet<br/> G C D [C B A]<br/> I was dead upon my feet<br/> <br/> <br/> D D/C D/C D/B<br/> There's nothing there in the market square<br/> Am Am/B C D<br/> But the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> I was dead upon my feet<br/> Am C D<br/> I sing the red rose and the briar<br/> Am Am/B C D (G in intro)<br/> I sing the red rose and the bri-ar<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> G C G<br/> The waitress told me her life story<br/> G C C/B Am<br/> She'd always meant to up and go<br/> G C G<br/> She wiped her cup on her red pinafore<br/> G C D [C B A]<br/> As we waited for you to show<br/> D D/C D/C D/B<br/> And I told her just a little of you<br/> Am Am/B C D<br/> But left the picture incomplete<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> You still weren't there to paint it in person<br/> Em/F# G C G<br/> So I skipped out on the street<br/> G C G<br/> I skipped out on the street<br/> <br/> <br/> G C G<br/> The newsagent grinned, he said that you'd been in<br/> G C Am<br/> You bought a local paper and some shaves<br/> G C G<br/> And the washroom attendant said that you'd freshened up<br/> G C D [C B A]<br/> That you'd left but you hadn't payed<br/> D D/C D/C D/B<br/> And I couldn't figure out where you were<br/> Am Am/B C D<br/> So I went back to look near the car<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> There's nothing there where it should have been<br/> Em/F# G C G<br/> Just oil on dirt and tar<br/> G G/B C D [C B A]<br/> Just oil on dirt and tar<br/> <br/> <br/> D D/C D/C D/B<br/> There's nothing there in the market square<br/> Am Am/B C D<br/> But the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> And there's nothing there where it should have been<br/> Am C D<br/> I sing the red rose and the briar<br/> Am C D<br/> I sing the red rose and the briar<br/> <br/> Am C D [E F#] (G in intro)<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> G C G<br/> I saw it parked way down the street<br/> G G/B C C/B Am<br/> In a garage off on the right<br/> G C G<br/> And a man said, "Get your hands off, son<br/> G C D [C B A]<br/> I just traded that wreck for a motorbike"<br/> D D/C D/C D/B<br/> There was nothing left of mine inside<br/> Am Am/B C D<br/> Not even the broken radio-o-o<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> And I couldn't figure out where that left me<br/> G C G<br/> So I went back to look for Rose<br/> <br/> <br/> G , C G<br/> The Cafe Rouge was a lunchtime rush<br/> G C C/B Am<br/> Of regulars yelling for food<br/> G C G<br/> And the service in there left a lot to be desired<br/> G G/B C C/B D [C B A]<br/> All the regulars were getting rude<br/> D D/C D/C D/B<br/> I saw an apron thrown over a chair<br/> Am Am/B C D<br/> A note said, "Hey John, we're gone, we're gone"<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> And I just smiled 'cause I loved you both<br/> G C G<br/> So I put the apron on<br/> G C D [C B A]<br/> I put the apron on<br/> <br/> <br/> D D/C D/C D/B<br/> Still nothing there in the market square<br/> Am Am/B C D<br/> But the ghost of the Scarlet town-crier<br/> G C G G/F# Em<br/> Well I just put the apron on<br/> Am C D<br/> I sing the red rose and the briar<br/> Am C D<br/> I sing the red rose and the briar<br/> Am C D<br/> I sing the red rose and the briar<br/> Am C D [E F#] (G in intro)<br/> I sing the red rose and the briar<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> G<br/> In Scarlet town where I was born<br/> C G<br/> There was a fair maid dwellin'<br/> G G/F# Em Em7<br/> Oh, the colour of her hair was brown<br/> Am<br/> And her name......<br/> C Am<br/> And her name was......<br/> C Am<br/> And her name was...... <br/> <br/> C D [E F#] (G in intro)<br/> <br/> <br/> =============== THE END ================<br/> <br/> NOTES<br/> =====<br/> 0. According to Stephen M. Webb , "her name was..."<br/> Barbara Allan as in the song "Barbara Allan" which takes place in<br/> `Scarlet Town where I was born,' ends up with a rose and briar.<br/> I don't have this song, so I didn't know this. I though it might have<br/> been Helen from "I went to visit Helen by St. Helen's Park" (which is<br/> in Hastings, where Wes used to live) from the song "Pound, Pound, Pound"<br/> on the live & unaccompanied album "It Happened One Night".<br/> <br/> 1. Many thanks to Patrick Barnett for his<br/> generosity and help in compiling this posting and Chris Inglesi <br/> for pointing out the fact that it's "fair maid <br/> dwellin'" rather than "family dwellin'" which I had at first.<br/> <br/> 2. All the chords are pretty much the basic fingerings but Wes uses a<br/> modified Em [0 2 2 0 0 3] and Em7 is [0 2 0 0 0 0]. For those of you<br/> unfamiliar with CRD notation, the chords with a slash such as C/B denote<br/> chords played with a different bass-note to usual. The part before the<br/> slash is the chord and the note after it is the bass note. So C/B is a<br/> basic C chord [0 3 2 0 1 0] but with the bass-note changed to B becoming<br/> [x 2 2 0 1 0]. In fact you needn't worry too much about the 2nd fretted<br/> D string. What is important to note is that the bass-note is played on<br/> the most convenient string, not always on the bass-E string. In this<br/> song, the bass-note doesn't actually have to be the lowest note played -<br/> I've used this notation to denote the bass notes in the bass-strum<br/> style.<br/> <br/> 3. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)<br/> or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd<br/> like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,<br/> "The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and<br/> "Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do<br/> them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out<br/> the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded<br/> so far are:<br/> From "The Name Above The Title":<br/> I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)<br/> Save A Little Room For Me<br/> The People's Drug<br/> The Person You Are<br/> Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by <br/> Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks<br/> from "It Happened One Night":<br/> Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)<br/> - thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"<br/> and from "Here Comes The Groom"<br/> The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett<br/> and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of<br/> When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again<br/> <br/> These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its<br/> mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by<br/> using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new<br/> maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid<br/> archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find<br/> the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:<br/> <br/> unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive<br/> <br/> Host unix.hensa.ac.uk<br/> <br/> Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar<br/> FILE -r--r--r-- 80 Jun 16 09:21 Nevada.Guitar.Archive<br/> <br/> <br/> Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding<br/> <br/> 4. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also<br/> uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:<br/> /pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding<br/> <br/> In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal<br/> Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)<br/> which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be<br/> a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.<br/> <br/> 5. Enjoy!<br/> <br/> <br/> Regards,<br/> <br/> Ryan Kingsley Harding (no relation at all to Wes, aka. Wesley Harding Stace)<br/> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^<br/> <br/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/> Ryan Harding Applied Optics Group, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.<br/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/> "Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"<br/> - John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"<br/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/>
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