Lakes Of Ponchartrain chords by Paul Brady

Chords with lyrics

Here's an old tune performed by Ireland's Paul Brady on the "Welcome Here
Kind Stranger" album. The arrangement is done in open G+G tuning, and you
will note some similarity in chords and chord progression with the old
Beatle's tune "Blackbird." I only give the intro and partial tabs. Please
excuse the chord names which may be inaccurate.




         The Lakes of Pontchartrain

          (trad. arr. Paul Brady)


 Guitar tuning: Open G+G (DBGDGD), no capo

 Chords:

 (from 1st to 6th strings)
 (`x' means mute string)

 00000x  - G1
 0(12)0xxx - G2
 x5055x  - C1
 x1x22x  - C2
 xx2x2x  - D1
 x3x44x  - D2
 x7x77x  - D3
 x3400x  - D4
 x0044x  - B minorBm
 x8x99x  - F# minorF#m
 0350x0  - D7D7

 Intro:  (h = hammer on)

  ----------------------0-------0------0--------------------0---------------0------
  ---3--5--3--5---h---0---0---0------0-------------5-------12-------5-------12--
  -0-------------2^4--------2------0-------------0---0------0-----0-----0---0------
  ---------------0-----------------------2-4---5-------5--------5-----5---0--------
  ---0--5--0--5------------------------------5-----------0----5--------------------
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  G1   C1 D2   C1  G1 D1 D4 C2    D3  G1 C2 D2 C1
  Twas on one bright March ...
  G1           B minorBm   F# minorF#m   D3 C1 D2 C2 G1 C2 D2 C1
  And I took the road to Jackson ...
  G1          B minorBm F# minorF#m D3 C1 D2 C2  G1 C2 D2 C1
  I cursed all foreign money, ....
  G1      C1 D2  C1  D7D7   G1   C1    D7D7   G1  C1 G2 C1 G2
  Which filled my heart with longing .....

  I stepped on board of a railroad car...