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Topic: Rambling Boy

I wrote this song this morning. Thoughts of the local Apple Festival and some folk songs that I've been having fun with. The Apple Festival is going on now in Hendersonville, NC if you want to stop by as well. I hear there will be crowds and apples of course.

Rambling Boy Jeff Gilpin


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Intro


[E]-[A]-[E]-[A]-[E]-[A]-[E]-[A]-[E]


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[A]I’m nothing [E]more than a [A]rambling [E]boy


Just a [A]rambling [E]boy. Just a [A]rambling [E]boy


[A]I’m nothing [E]more than a [A]rambling [E]boy


Just a [A]rambling a[E]way this [A]morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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Rambled on down to the Apple Festival


To the Apple Festival to the Apple Festival


Rambled on down to the Apple Festival


To the Apple Festival this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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Saw pretty Cindy just a sitting there


Just a sitting there just a sitting there


Saw pretty Cindy just a sitting there


At the Apple Festival this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [E] [A] [E] [A] x2


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Saw honey crisp just the color of her hair


Just the color of her hair just the color of her hair


Saw honey crisp just the color of her hair


At the Apple Festival this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [E] [A] [E] [A] x2


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One’ll cost me a dollar and a half


Just a dollar and a half Just a dollar and a half


One’ll cost me a dollar and a half


At the Apple Festival this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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Only had a quarter to my name


Just a quarter to my name it’s a crying shame


Only had a quarter to my name


At the Apple Festival this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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Rambled on up to the Aldi store


To the Aldi Store to the Aldi Store



Rambled on up to the Aldi Store


From the Apple Festival this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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Quarters in the carts and a couple on the floor


Yes, a couple on the floor, just a couple on the floor


Quarters in the carts and a couple on the floor


At the Aldi Store this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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Left the Aldi store with my pockets full


With my pockets full with my pockets full


Left the Aldi store with my pockets full


With my pockets full this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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Headed back to the Apple Festival


Bought a Honey Crisp, Bought a Honey Chrisp


Headed back to the Apple Festival


Bought a Honey Crisp this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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Looked for Cindy but she was gone


Long gone without a so long


Looked for Cindy but she was gone


From the Apple Festival this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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[E7]So.... I sat down and ate my Honey Crisp


Ate my Honey Crisp, Ate my Honey Crisp


Down to the core so sweet on my lips


At the Apple Festival this morning


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[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2


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[A]I’m nothing [E]more than a [A]rambling [E]boy


Just a [A]rambling [E]boy. Just a [A]rambling [E]boy


[A]I’m nothing [E]more than a [A]rambling [E]boy


Just a [A]rambling a[E]way this [A]morning


[Bm] [F] [D] [A] [E] [A] [E] x2




End on [A7 E7] [A7]



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2 Reply by Peatle Jville (edited by Peatle Jville 2023-09-02 00:05:11)

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Re: Rambling Boy

Jeff reading your lyrics made me think of Mark Twains, 'The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer" why my mind went there I don't know. I could imagine you singing that song to a group of people and doing it as a sing along.

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Re: Rambling Boy

Thanks Pete. I don't think I'll be performing it to a group of people, but I do plan on recording it sometime. I tried to write it as a more traditional bluegrass song. I just wish I could play all the instruments needed to make it sound right.     

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Re: Rambling Boy

Jeff
cute rendition of an episode

Reminds me a bit of Steve Earle and Rodney Crowell  in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUML2yWVn8c

except I'm sure you weren't as lit up as they were smile

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Re: Rambling Boy

Thanks Jim - I can attest to not being lit when I wrote this... LOL. That was a fun group sing-along for sure...My dad used to sing Stay All Night on road trips from NC to Texas and back way back in the day, among quite a few others. It was a long trip with a few gaps in radio coverage. I heard Willie Nelson and his band perform it live in Hattiesburg, MS, (1979 or 1980 if I remember correctly) on a little break from training at Keesler AFB with a few friends, including George, Jack, and Ezra.     

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Re: Rambling Boy

It's up on SoundCloud now if any of you want to listen and see how it goes. https://soundcloud.com/jets60/rambling-boy     

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Re: Rambling Boy

Jeff

Neat little song. 
Thought the music was well played.  Song fits your voice nicely.
I think you tended to rush a couple of lines just a little bit though - but
you sing and play so much better than I can so what do I know smile ?

Nice job!
Keep'em coming

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Re: Rambling Boy

Hey Jim - Thanks - Like many bluegrass tunes, it is an up-tempo song, so I was trying to fit in all the words while I still had the breath. This one took a while to record. I supposed I could have slowed it down, but I was going for a recording to show how the song is played and fits the music. You play and sing quite well by the way but thank you for the compliment.     

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Re: Rambling Boy

Hi Jeff. Haven't listened yet but it reads like traditional folk music over here. Listen ASAP. Ps, I love apples especially cox's pippins...lovely.     

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Re: Rambling Boy

Thanks Phill. Yes, that was my intent, to write a traditional folk song, a kind of bluegrass folk song which I have been reading up on since I'm living in the heart of bluegrass now....I haven't tried those apples but I will keep a look out for them.     

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11 Reply by Peatle Jville (edited by Peatle Jville 2023-09-08 22:11:09)

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Good hoedown delivery of your song there Jeff. I could imagine a Bluegrass band playing this.     In the last few years I have been eating plenty of a new type of apple called Jazz Apples but I'm also a big fan of the old varieties but unfortunately they don't show up at our Supermarket like they use to. Cox Orange a fav.

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jets60, agree with Peatle that is has a hoedown feel to this one smile  Agree with TIGLJK as well, maybe a litte bit too fast in places smile     

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Re: Rambling Boy

Thanks Jan     

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