The Red Rose and the Briar John Wesley Harding

The Red Rose And The Briar

==========================

by John Wesley Harding

written by David Lewis & John Wesley Harding

from the album "Here Comes The Groom"

INTRODUCTION

============

In the tablature for the introduction, the symbols "^" and "v" denote

sounds pretty good if you change the pattern slightly, too - either by

doing only single downstrums (no upstrums) in most of the intro, or by

playing with fingers, using the thumb to play the bass run and the

index, middle and ring fingers to play the treble chords. Wes plays

with a pick, and I've found my usual favourite (a 0.60 mm John Dunlop

nylon type) too stiff to comfortably do the double strums at the right

speed. My only thinner pick was a 0.38 mm Jim Dunlop nylon pick which

makes the double strums easy but is a bit too pliable to let me

emphasise the bass runs, so I got a 0.46 mm JD which is the best for

my acoustic guitar but the optimum depends on you and your guitar.

CHD: G C G Em

^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ ^ v ^

 
 |------3-------3-------3-------3--|------3---------------0----------|
 |------0-------0-------1-------1--|------0---------------0----------|
 |------0-------0-------0-------0--|------0---------------0----------|
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |----------0h2-----3-------2p0----|---------------------------------|
 |--3------------------------------|--3-----------2-p-0-----------2--|

1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .

CHD: G C G

^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^

 
 |------3-------3-------3-------3--|------3---3---3---3--------------|
 |------0-------0-------1-------1--|------0---0---0---0--------------|
 |------0-------0-------0-------0--|------0---0---0---0--------------|
 |---------------------------------|------0---0---0h2----------------|
 |----------0h2-----3-------2p0----|---------------------------------|
 |--3------------------------------|--3------------------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .

CHORDS AND LYRICS (Bass runs are shown in square brackets [C] [B] [A] and

Midw[G]eek and [C]we reached S[G]carlet town

I was [G]almost d[C]ying [C/B]of th[Am]irst

We p[G]arked the c[C]ar in some [G]old schoolyard

G C D [C] [B] [A]

The windscreen caked in dirt

There w[D]as no [D/C]water in the [D/C]engine

[D/B]Left no tr[Am]ead u[Am/B]pon the [C]tyr[D]es

The el[G]ectrics were br[C]oke 'cause y[G]ou [G/F#]went m[Em]ad

[Em/F#]You r[G]ipped out [C]all the w[G]ires

[G] [C] [G]

G C G ,

Across the road, a small cafe

In the st[G]ate of [C]Dis[C/B]repa[Am]ir

You w[G]ent for p[C]apers [G]and a shave

G C D [C] [B] [A]

So I saved you a chair

I kn[D]ew it [D/C]wasn't the j[D/B]ourney's [Em]end

And that your dr[Am]eam was [Am/B] incomp[C]let[D]e

But [G]I just c[C]ould not [G]stand [G/F#] anymo[Em]re

I was d[G]ead up[C]on my f[G]eet

G C D [C] [B] [A]

I was dead upon my feet

There's n[D]othing t[D/C]here in the [D/C]market sq[D/B]uare

But the g[Am]host of the [Am/B]Scarlet town-c[C]rie[D]r

[G]I was d[C]ead up[G]on [G/F#] my f[Em]eet

I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the b[D]riar

Am Am/B C D (G in intro)

I sing the red rose and the bri-ar

The w[G]aitress t[C]old me h[G]er life story

She'd always m[G]eant to [C]up [C/B]and [Am]go

She w[G]iped her c[C]up on her r[G]ed pinafore

G C D [C] [B] [A]

As we waited for you to show

And [D]I told [D/C]her just a [D/C]little of [D/B]you

But left the [Am]picture [Am/B] incomp[C]let[D]e

You s[G]till weren't th[C]ere to p[G]aint it [G/F#] in p[Em]erson

[Em/F#]So I sk[G]ipped out [C]on the str[G]eet

I sk[G]ipped out [C]on the str[G]eet

The n[G]ewsagent gr[C]inned, he said that y[G]ou'd been in

You bought a l[G]ocal paper [C]and some s[Am]haves

And the w[G]ashroom att[C]endant said that y[G]ou'd freshened up

G C D [C] [B] [A]

That you'd left but you hadn't payed

And [D]I couldn't [D/C]figure out w[D/C]here you [D/B]were

So I went b[Am]ack to [Am/B]look near the [C]ca[D]r

There's n[G]othing t[C]here where it sh[G]ould [G/F#]have b[Em]een

[Em/F#]Just o[G]il on d[C]irt and t[G]ar

G G/B C D [C] [B] [A]

Just oil on dirt and tar

There's n[D]othing t[D/C]here in the [D/C]market sq[D/B]uare

But the g[Am]host of the [Am/B]Scarlet town-[C]crie[D]r

And there's n[G]othing th[C]ere where it sh[G]ould [G/F#]have b[Em]een

I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the br[D]iar

Am C D [E] [F#] (G in intro)

[ Tab from: bttp://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/jobn_wesley_barding/tbe_red_rose_and_tbe_briar_tab.btml ]

I s[G]aw it p[C]arked way d[G]own the street

In a g[G]arage [G/B]off [C]on [C/B]the r[Am]ight

And a m[G]an said, "G[C]et your h[G]ands off, son

G C D [C] [B] [A]

I just traded that wreck for a motorbike"

There was n[D]othing [D/C]left of [D/C]mine in[D/B]side

Not even the[Am] broken[Am/B] radio-[C]o-[D]o

And [G]I couldn't f[C]igure out where th[G]at [G/F#]left [Em]me

So I went b[G]ack to l[C]ook for R[G]ose

G , C G

The Cafe Rouge was a lunchtime rush

Of r[G]egulars y[C]elling [C/B]for f[Am]ood

And the s[G]ervice in th[C]ere left a l[G]ot to be desired

G G/B C C/B D [C] [B] [A]

All the regulars were getting rude

I s[D]aw an [D/C]apron thrown [D/C] over a ch[D/B]air

A note s[Am]aid, "Hey [Am/B]John, we're g[C]one, we're g[D]one"

And [G]I just sm[C]iled 'cause I l[G]oved [G/F#]you b[Em]oth

So I p[G]ut the [C]apron [G]on

G C D [C] [B] [A]

I put the apron on

Still n[D]othing t[D/C]here in the [D/C]market sq[D/B]uare

But the g[Am]host of the [Am/B]Scarlet town-[C]crie[D]r

Well [G]I just p[C]ut the [G]ap[G/F#]ron [Em]on

I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the br[D]iar

Am C D [E] [F#] (G in intro)

I sing the red rose and the briar

In Scarlet t[G]own where I was born

There w[C]as a fair maid[G] dwellin'

Oh, the c[G]olour [G/F#] of her h[Em]air was b[Em7]rown

And her n[Am]ame......

And her n[C]ame was......[Am]

And her n[C]ame was...... [Am]

C D [E] [F#] (G in intro)

=============== THE END ================

NOTES

=====

0. According to Stephen M. Webb , "her name was..."

Barbara Allan as in the song "Barbara Allan" which takes place in

`Scarlet Town where I was born,' ends up with a rose and briar.

I don't have this song, so I didn't know this. I though it might have

been Helen from "I went to visit Helen by St. Helen's Park" (which is

in Hastings, where Wes used to live) from the song "Pound, Pound, Pound"

on the live & unaccompanied album "It Happened One Night".

1. Many thanks to Patrick Barnett for his

generosity and help in compiling this posting and Chris Inglesi

for pointing out the fact that it's "fair maid

dwellin'" rather than "family dwellin'" which I had at first.

2. All the chords are pretty much the basic fingerings but Wes uses a

modified Em [0 2 2 0 0 3] and Em7 is [0 2 0 0 0 0]. For those of you

unfamiliar with CRD notation, the chords with a slash such as C/B denote

chords played with a different bass-note to usual. The part before the

slash is the chord and the note after it is the bass note. So C/B is a

basic C chord [0 3 2 0 1 0] but with the bass-note changed to B becoming

[x 2 2 0 1 0]. In fact you needn't worry too much about the 2nd fretted

D string. What is important to note is that the bass-note is played on

the most convenient string, not always on the bass-E string. In this

song, the bass-note doesn't actually have to be the lowest note played -

I've used this notation to denote the bass notes in the bass-strum

style.

3. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)

or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd

like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,

"The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and

"Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do

them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out

the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded

so far are:

From "The Name Above The Title":

I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)

Save A Little Room For Me

The People's Drug

The Person You Are

Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by

Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks

from "It Happened One Night":

Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)

- thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"

and from "Here Comes The Groom"

The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett

and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of

When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again

These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its

mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by

using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new

maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid

archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find

the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:

unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive

Host unix.hensa.ac.uk

Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar

 
 FILE -r--r--r-- 80 Jun 16 09:21 Nevada.Guitar.Archive

Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

4. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also

uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:

/pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal

Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)

which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be

a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.

5. Enjoy!

Regards,

Ryan Kingsley Harding (no relation at all to Wes, aka. Wesley Harding Stace)

^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^

 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ryan Harding Applied Optics Group, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

 
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"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"

- John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"

 
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{t:The Red Rose and the Briar}
 {st:John Wesley Harding}
 
 The Red Rose And The Briar
 ==========================
 by John Wesley Harding
 written by David Lewis & John Wesley Harding
 from the album "Here Comes The Groom"
 
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 In the tablature for the introduction, the symbols "^" and "v" denote
 down-strums and up-strums. The C-chords are played using the {310230}
 fingering by Wes, but the {010230} fingering isn't very different. It
 sounds pretty good if you change the pattern slightly, too - either by
 doing only single downstrums (no upstrums) in most of the intro, or by
 playing with fingers, using the thumb to play the bass run and the
 index, middle and ring fingers to play the treble chords. Wes plays
 with a pick, and I've found my usual favourite (a 0.60 mm John Dunlop
 nylon type) too stiff to comfortably do the double strums at the right
 speed. My only thinner pick was a 0.38 mm Jim Dunlop nylon pick which
 makes the double strums easy but is a bit too pliable to let me
 emphasise the bass runs, so I got a 0.46 mm JD which is the best for
 my acoustic guitar but the optimum depends on you and your guitar.
 
 CHD: G C G Em
 ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ ^ v ^
 
 {sot}
 |------3-------3-------3-------3--|------3---------------0----------|
 |------0-------0-------1-------1--|------0---------------0----------|
 |------0-------0-------0-------0--|------0---------------0----------|
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |----------0h2-----3-------2p0----|---------------------------------|
 |--3------------------------------|--3-----------2-p-0-----------2--|
 {eot}
 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
 
 CHD: G C G
 ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^
 
 {sot}
 |------3-------3-------3-------3--|------3---3---3---3--------------|
 |------0-------0-------1-------1--|------0---0---0---0--------------|
 |------0-------0-------0-------0--|------0---0---0---0--------------|
 |---------------------------------|------0---0---0h2----------------|
 |----------0h2-----3-------2p0----|---------------------------------|
 |--3------------------------------|--3------------------------------|
 {eot}
 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
 
 CHORDS AND LYRICS (Bass runs are shown in square brackets [C] [B] [A] and
 ================= instructions in curly backets {PLAY INTRODUCTION}.)
 
 {PLAY INTRODUCTION}
 
 Midw[G]eek and [C]we reached S[G]carlet town
 I was [G]almost d[C]ying [C/B]of th[Am]irst
 We p[G]arked the c[C]ar in some [G]old schoolyard
 G C D [C] [B] [A]
 The windscreen caked in dirt
 There w[D]as no [D/C]water in the [D/C]engine
 [D/B]Left no tr[Am]ead u[Am/B]pon the [C]tyr[D]es
 The el[G]ectrics were br[C]oke 'cause y[G]ou [G/F#]went m[Em]ad
 [Em/F#]You r[G]ipped out [C]all the w[G]ires
 
 [G] [C] [G] 
 G C G ,
 Across the road, a small cafe
 In the st[G]ate of [C]Dis[C/B]repa[Am]ir
 You w[G]ent for p[C]apers [G]and a shave
 G C D [C] [B] [A]
 So I saved you a chair
 I kn[D]ew it [D/C]wasn't the j[D/B]ourney's [Em]end
 And that your dr[Am]eam was [Am/B] incomp[C]let[D]e
 But [G]I just c[C]ould not [G]stand [G/F#] anymo[Em]re
 I was d[G]ead up[C]on my f[G]eet
 G C D [C] [B] [A]
 I was dead upon my feet
 
 There's n[D]othing t[D/C]here in the [D/C]market sq[D/B]uare
 But the g[Am]host of the [Am/B]Scarlet town-c[C]rie[D]r
 [G]I was d[C]ead up[G]on [G/F#] my f[Em]eet
 I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the b[D]riar
 Am Am/B C D (G in intro)
 I sing the red rose and the bri-ar
 
 {REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
 
 The w[G]aitress t[C]old me h[G]er life story
 She'd always m[G]eant to [C]up [C/B]and [Am]go
 She w[G]iped her c[C]up on her r[G]ed pinafore
 G C D [C] [B] [A]
 As we waited for you to show
 And [D]I told [D/C]her just a [D/C]little of [D/B]you
 But left the [Am]picture [Am/B] incomp[C]let[D]e
 You s[G]till weren't th[C]ere to p[G]aint it [G/F#] in p[Em]erson
 [Em/F#]So I sk[G]ipped out [C]on the str[G]eet
 I sk[G]ipped out [C]on the str[G]eet
 
 The n[G]ewsagent gr[C]inned, he said that y[G]ou'd been in
 You bought a l[G]ocal paper [C]and some s[Am]haves
 And the w[G]ashroom att[C]endant said that y[G]ou'd freshened up
 G C D [C] [B] [A]
 That you'd left but you hadn't payed
 And [D]I couldn't [D/C]figure out w[D/C]here you [D/B]were
 So I went b[Am]ack to [Am/B]look near the [C]ca[D]r
 There's n[G]othing t[C]here where it sh[G]ould [G/F#]have b[Em]een
 [Em/F#]Just o[G]il on d[C]irt and t[G]ar
 G G/B C D [C] [B] [A]
 Just oil on dirt and tar
 
 There's n[D]othing t[D/C]here in the [D/C]market sq[D/B]uare
 But the g[Am]host of the [Am/B]Scarlet town-[C]crie[D]r
 And there's n[G]othing th[C]ere where it sh[G]ould [G/F#]have b[Em]een
 I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the br[D]iar
 I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the br[D]iar
 
 Am C D [E] [F#] (G in intro)
 
 {REPEAT INTRODUCTION}
 
 [ Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/john_wesley_harding/the_red_rose_and_the_briar_tab.html ]
 I s[G]aw it p[C]arked way d[G]own the street
 In a g[G]arage [G/B]off [C]on [C/B]the r[Am]ight
 And a m[G]an said, "G[C]et your h[G]ands off, son
 G C D [C] [B] [A]
 I just traded that wreck for a motorbike"
 There was n[D]othing [D/C]left of [D/C]mine in[D/B]side
 Not even the[Am] broken[Am/B] radio-[C]o-[D]o
 And [G]I couldn't f[C]igure out where th[G]at [G/F#]left [Em]me
 So I went b[G]ack to l[C]ook for R[G]ose
 
 G , C G
 The Cafe Rouge was a lunchtime rush
 Of r[G]egulars y[C]elling [C/B]for f[Am]ood
 And the s[G]ervice in th[C]ere left a l[G]ot to be desired
 G G/B C C/B D [C] [B] [A]
 All the regulars were getting rude
 I s[D]aw an [D/C]apron thrown [D/C] over a ch[D/B]air
 A note s[Am]aid, "Hey [Am/B]John, we're g[C]one, we're g[D]one"
 And [G]I just sm[C]iled 'cause I l[G]oved [G/F#]you b[Em]oth
 So I p[G]ut the [C]apron [G]on
 G C D [C] [B] [A]
 I put the apron on
 
 Still n[D]othing t[D/C]here in the [D/C]market sq[D/B]uare
 But the g[Am]host of the [Am/B]Scarlet town-[C]crie[D]r
 Well [G]I just p[C]ut the [G]ap[G/F#]ron [Em]on
 I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the br[D]iar
 I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the br[D]iar
 I sing the r[Am]ed rose [C]and the br[D]iar
 Am C D [E] [F#] (G in intro)
 I sing the red rose and the briar
 
 {REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}
 
 In Scarlet t[G]own where I was born
 There w[C]as a fair maid[G] dwellin'
 Oh, the c[G]olour [G/F#] of her h[Em]air was b[Em7]rown
 And her n[Am]ame......
 And her n[C]ame was......[Am]
 And her n[C]ame was...... [Am]
 
 C D [E] [F#] (G in intro)
 
 {REPEAT INTRODUCTION} G
 
 =============== THE END ================
 
 NOTES
 =====
 0. According to Stephen M. Webb , "her name was..."
 Barbara Allan as in the song "Barbara Allan" which takes place in
 `Scarlet Town where I was born,' ends up with a rose and briar.
 I don't have this song, so I didn't know this. I though it might have
 been Helen from "I went to visit Helen by St. Helen's Park" (which is
 in Hastings, where Wes used to live) from the song "Pound, Pound, Pound"
 on the live & unaccompanied album "It Happened One Night".
 
 1. Many thanks to Patrick Barnett for his
 generosity and help in compiling this posting and Chris Inglesi
 for pointing out the fact that it's "fair maid
 dwellin'" rather than "family dwellin'" which I had at first.
 
 2. All the chords are pretty much the basic fingerings but Wes uses a
 modified Em [0 2 2 0 0 3] and Em7 is [0 2 0 0 0 0]. For those of you
 unfamiliar with CRD notation, the chords with a slash such as C/B denote
 chords played with a different bass-note to usual. The part before the
 slash is the chord and the note after it is the bass note. So C/B is a
 basic C chord [0 3 2 0 1 0] but with the bass-note changed to B becoming
 [x 2 2 0 1 0]. In fact you needn't worry too much about the 2nd fretted
 D string. What is important to note is that the bass-note is played on
 the most convenient string, not always on the bass-E string. In this
 song, the bass-note doesn't actually have to be the lowest note played -
 I've used this notation to denote the bass notes in the bass-strum
 style.
 
 3. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)
 or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd
 like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,
 "The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and
 "Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do
 them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out
 the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded
 so far are:
 From "The Name Above The Title":
 I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
 Save A Little Room For Me
 The People's Drug
 The Person You Are
 Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by
 Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks
 from "It Happened One Night":
 Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
 - thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"
 Kiss/Lovers' Society {coming shortly}
 and from "Here Comes The Groom"
 The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett
 and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of
 When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again
 
 These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its
 mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by
 using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new
 maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid
 archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find
 the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:
 
 unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive
 
 Host unix.hensa.ac.uk
 
 Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
 
 {sot}
 FILE -r--r--r-- 80 Jun 16 09:21 Nevada.Guitar.Archive
 {eot}
 
 Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
 
 4. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also
 uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:
 /pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding
 
 In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal
 Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)
 which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be
 a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.
 
 5. Enjoy!
 
 Regards,
 
 Ryan Kingsley Harding (no relation at all to Wes, aka. Wesley Harding Stace)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 
 {sot}
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 {eot}
 Ryan Harding Applied Optics Group, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
 
 {sot}
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 {eot}
 "Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"
 - John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"
 
 {sot}
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 {eot}

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