The Red Rose And The Briar tab by Harding John Wesley

The Red Rose And The Briar
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                                                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 ^
  |------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
=================        instructions in curly backets {PLAY INTRODUCTION}.)


{PLAY INTRODUCTION}

    G       C           G
Midweek and we ...
      G       C    C/B   Am
I was almost dying ..
    G          C          G
We parked the car ...
     G          C        D  [C B A]
The windscreen ...
       D     D/C          D/C
There was no water in ...
D/B       Am   Am/B     C  D
Left no tread ..
      G              C           G  G/F#  Em
The electrics were broke..
Em/F#  G         C        G
You   ripped out all ...

G       C       G

   G        C       G       ,
Across the road, ...
         G      C  C/B Am
In the state of ...
     G        C     G
You went for papers ...
   G        C      D  [C B A]
So I saved you...
    D     D/C         D/B      Em
I knew it wasn't ...
                Am      Am/B   C  D
And that your ...
    G       C        G     G/F#  Em
But I just could not ...
       G     C      G
I was dead ...
       G     C      D  [C B A]
I was dead ....
.
         D       D/C         D/C      D/B
There's nothing there ...
         Am          Am/B          C  D
But the ghost of the..
G      C     G  G/F#  Em
I was dead ....
            Am      C        D
I sing the red ...
            Am Am/B C        D  (G in intro)
I sing the red rose ...


{REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}


     G        C       G
The waitress told ...
              G       C  C/B Am
She'd always meant ..
     G         C          G
She wiped her cup on ...
       G          C       D  [C B A]
As we waited for yo..
    D      D/C        D/C       D/B
And I told her ...
             Am      Am/B   C  D
But left the ...
     G              C       G       G/F#  Em
You still weren't there ...
Em/F#   G         C         G
So I  skipped ou...
    G         C         G
I skipped out on the ...


     G          C                    G
The newsagent grinned, he ...
              G          C         Am
You bought a local paper ...
         G          C                 G
And the washroom attendant ...
            G            C      D  [C B A]
That you'd left but ...
    D          D/C         D/C      D/B
And I couldn't figure ...
           Am     Am/B          C D
So I went back to look ..
         G       C               G    G/F#  Em
There's nothing there where ...
Em/F#  G      C        G
Just  oil on ...
      G  G/B  C        D [C B A]
Just oil on  dirt a....

         D       D/C         D/C      D/B
There's nothing there in ..
         Am          Am/B         C   D
But the ghost of the ...
             G        C              G    G/F#  Em
And there's nothing there ...
            Am      C         D
I sing the red rose ...
            Am      C         D
I sing the red rose ...

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


{REPEAT INTRODUCTION}


   G      C          G
I saw it parked ...
      G     G/B C  C/B  Am
In a garage off ...
       G          C        G
And a man said, "...
         G           C               D  [C B A]
I just traded that wreck ...
           D      D/C     D/C    D/B
There was nothing left ...
            Am      Am/B   C D
Not even the  ...
    G           C                 G  G/F# Em
And I couldn't figure ...
           G       C        G
So I went back to ...


     G ,  C           G
The Cafe Rouge was ...
    G        C      C/B  Am
Of regulars ..
         G           C           G
And the service in there left ...
         G       G/B   C  C/B  D  [C B A]
All the regulars were ...
   D     D/C          D/C       D/B
I saw an apron ...
        Am        Am/B         C           D
A note said, "Hey John, ...
    G        C              G    G/F#  Em
And I just smiled ...
      G      C     G
So I put the ...
   G      C     D  [C B A]
I put the ..


       D       D/C         D/C      D/B
Still nothing there in ...
         Am          Am/B         C   D
But the ghost of the ..
     G       C      G G/F# Em
Well I just put the ...
            Am      C         D
I sing the red rose ...
            Am      C         D
I sing the red rose ..
            Am      C         D
I sing the red rose and..
            Am      C         D  [E F#]  (G in intro)
I sing the red .....


{REPEAT INTRODUCTION TWICE}


            G
In Scarlet town ...
       C             G
There was a ...
         G     G/F#      Em       Em7
Oh, the colour  of  her ....
         Am
And her name......
         C              Am
And her name was......
         C              Am
And her name was......

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

{REPEAT INTRODUCTION}  G

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

NOTES
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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
              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)
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^

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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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