Our Song List (partial)

with Chords (anyone wish to volunteer?)

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• All the Good Times Are Past & Gone  GGCG GGDD GGCG GDG
• Angel Band * A-GGCG GDG GGCG GDG B-DDGG DDGG CCGG GDG CCGG GDG
• Blue Moon of Kentucky A-GGC GGGD GGC GGDG B-CCC GGG CCC GGD
• Bringing in the Georgia Mail G~D G~DG
• Bury me Beneath the Willows GGGG GGGD GGCGGDG
• Cabin in Caroline * A-GGCG GGDD GGCG GDG B-CCG GGD GGCG GDG
• Charmin’ Betsy A-GGCG GGDD GGCG GDG B-GGGG GGDD GGCC GDG
• Columbus Stockade Blues A-GGGG DDGG GGGG DDGG B-CCGG CCDD GGGG DDG
• Crawdad Song GGGG GGDD GGCC GDG
• Covered Wagon A-GDG GGcg GCC CGG GDG B-gCCG GGD gCC CGG GDG
• Cripple Creek (Vocal) A-ADAA AAEA AADA AAEA B-AAAA AAEA AAAA AAEA
• Deep River Blues
• Dooley * A-GCGD GCGdG GCGD GCGdG B-:GGCC GGDG:
• Down the Road :GEmGdG:
• Drink that Mash & Talk that Trash
• Foggy Mountain Top GGCG GDG GGCG GDG
• Footprints in the Snow A-GGGC DDDG GGGC DDG B-GGD DDG GGGC DDG
• Fox on the Run
• Glendale Train GGGG GGCC GGGAD GGGG CCG GGGG DG
• High on a Mountain A-GFG GFG GFGC GDG B-GFGC GDG GFGC GDG
• In the Pines GGCG GDG GGCG GDG
• I'll Never Shed Another Tear A-GGCG GGDD GGCG GDG B-GGCG GGDD GGCG GDG
• I Wonder How the Old Folks are at Home A-GCG GCG CCGG AADD B-GCGG GGCC CGGE ADG
• Little Cabin Home on the Hill A-GGCG GGDD GGCG GDG B-CCGG GGDD GGCG GDG
• Little Georgia Rose A-GGcG GGDD GGcG GDG B-CCGG GGDD GGCC GDG
• Monkey Round my Widder
• New River Train
• Old Dan Tucker
• Old Home Place A-:GBCG GGDD GBCG GDG: B- DDGG AADD GBCG GDG - - - -  In D: A-:DF#GD DDAA DF#GD DAD: B- AADD EEAA DF#GD DAD  - - - - Notice the F# is the 3 in D and the E is the 2
• Pearl, Pearl, Pearl
• Rocky Top *
• Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms
• Sunny Side of the Mountain
• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Television
• Tennessee Stud
• The Fields Have Turned Brown
• Uncle Pen
• Wabash Cannonball
• White Dove
• Why Did You Wander
• Your Love is Like a Flower
• Watermelon on the Vine
• Worried Man Blues
• Wreck of Ol' 97
• Wreck of Old Number 9 *
• Many More

Note: * indicates music on http://jaybuckey.com selections change regularly

Fiddle Songs

• Angelina the Baker *
• Arkansas Traveler
• Ashoken Farewell *
• Back up and Push *
• Bill Cheatem
• Billy in the Low Ground
• Blackberry Blossom
• Cripple Creek
• Cumberland Reel *
• Devil's Dream
• Down Yonder *
• Faded Love
• Fire on the Mountain *
• Fishers Hornpipe
• Flop Eared Mule *
• Forked Deer
• Golden Slippers
• Irish Washerwoman
• Liberty
• Lone Star Rag
• Mississippi Sawyer
• Old Joe Clark
• Ragtime Anne
• Red Haired Boy
• Red Wing
• Road to Lisdonvarna
• Rose of Sharon
• Sally Goodin
• Salt Creek
• Silver Bell
• Snow Deer
• Soldier's Joy
• Tennessee Waltz
• Turkey in the Straw
• Wildwood Flower twin fiddles
• Whiskey Before Breakfast
• Westphalia Waltz

 Gospel

• Keep on the Sunny Side
• Take Me in Your Lifeboat
• I'll Fly Away
• I Saw the Light
• Will the Circle be Unbroken
• Amazing Grace *

Christmas Carols and Songs

• Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
• Oh Tannenbaum
• ...many more

Note about the chords -

I'll try to notate these songs mostly in G but some may be done in other keys.  Most sing songs will have the key chosen by the vocalist.  For instance, I can't sing some songs in G, they don't make a pair of vice grips that will squeeze tight enough, so I have to sing 'em in D or E, sorry banjos.  In fact, Will the Circle is most comfortable to me in F.  Cripple Creek and Old Joe Clark are mostly done in A but a banjo player by himself might play em in G.  (You know the one about the banjo player who left his car unlocked with his banjo in the back seat?  He ran outside to check it and someone had left another banjo...)

Of course, this is getting very old very quickly.  Remember I told you I can't sing in G?  That means lots of the chords I wrote above are "wrong", cause I sing it in D, not G.  So what is a poor bluegrass picker to do?  "OH, NO!  My paper is in G but he's doing it in D.  I CANT PLAY!" And "DEE!!!!??????  That song's not in DEEEEE!!!!!!"

Well now don't despair, this is a piece of cake.   Here is a sample from my book entitled "Music Theory for Bluegrass Players"

• Basic lesson
• Chords are 1 through 8
• example- GABCDEFG, 12345678
• Most songs are 1 4 5 or a variation of that progression.  Some throw in a 6 or a 2 and you'll find a 7 or 3.
• If a song is a 1 5 1 song it'll probably have a 4 in there somewhere, but not always.
• Take any song above and substitute the number for the letter and you'll know how to write any song.
• The 5 is the turn-around chord, so that means a 1 5 1 song is always turning around.. (it's a dance song, get it?)
• When you want to end a verse or chorus, do a 5 chord (most famous in rock-n-roll)
• Bluegrassers love to mess you up with 1 5 1 songs, keep your eye out for 'em!
• If you're trying to play a song and it's not a 1, a 4, or a 5, try a 2.
• Swing and jazz use a 1 6 2 5 turn around, but now we're getting fancy.
• Transposing (very simplfied, major key)
• To transpose a song from G to D, substitute the numbers for the chords, using a 1 on all Gs, and the correct count on the other chords (see example above, a C is a 4, GABC, 1234).
• Put a D on all the 1s
• Count and replace as per the example, with D=1.  A 4 becomes a DEFG, G, where it was a C before (GABC)
• For purists - don't forget to have a half-step between the 3 & 4 and 7 & 8.  This is where sharps and flats come in. (See Old Home Place above, there's no black key between E & F so you have to sharp the F... Ha!, that's in Chapter 2) 
• Don't believe anything I've written here, but try it for yourself, then buy my book (but wait, that's not all!  You also get...)
• Now send $485 for the cost of lessons you just saved to 666 Rippemoff St. Suckersville, MD - Just kidding!

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