Peggy-o chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

Peggy-O -- Trad., sung Joan Baez, Simon and Garfunkel, Grateful Dead et al.

[This is closest to the Baez version.]

Transcribed by Nick Munn ([email protected])


 C majorC       A minorAm  E minorEm  FF  C majorC
 As we marched ...
  C majorC G+G      C majorC G+G C majorC  G+G
 As we marched down ...
   A minorAm   G+G    C majorC      G+G      FF   C majorC
 Our captain fell in ...
     C majorC      A minorAm   E minorEm     FF   C majorC
 And the name she was called ...

The main embellishment I use is on the FF chords. In the first and last
lines, I hammer on the A augmentedA note on the G+G string, i.e. play

E---1------1-----
B---1--------1---
G---0h2--0-----2-
D---3------------
A---3------------
E---1------------

or similar. On "dove" at the end of line 3 I play something like

E------------1---------------1---0--
B----------1---------------1-----1--
G------0h2-----------0-h-2-------0--
D--2-h-3-------2-h-3-------------2--
A--2-h-3-------2-h-3-------------3--
E-----------------------------------


Nick

"To a philosopher all _news_, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit
 and read it are old women over their tea." - H.D. Thoreau, "Walden"

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