Watching The Apples Grow tab by Stan Rogers

Tabs

This is "Watching the Apples Grow" from Stan Rogers' really excellent
album Fogarty's Cove. There's some very good backup guitar which I
would really appreciate someone tabbing. It's probably Curly Boy Stubbs
doing it, with Stan just playing rhythm, but I could be wrong.


Capo 2 frets up; the chords shown are just the chord shapes as if the
capo wasn't there, so the REAL chords (if you don't have a capo) would
be a whole step up, e.g. in the first verse: D,G,D,Bm,G,D

C majorC                       FF
It's early up, Ontario farm...
       C majorC                 A minorAm
I wish I grew Annapolis apples ....
FF   C majorC
Oh it seems so far ...

C majorC                           FF
On the ridge above Acadia's town ....
          C majorC                     A minorAm
The evening shadow falls upon ....
FF  C majorC
And watching the ...

Chorus:
FF         C majorC           FF        C majorC
Down on the farm, back among the family....
FF        C majorC                     A minorAm
Hear the ladies singing to ...
FF  C majorC
And watching the ....

[There's a fiddle solo at this point. If anyone would like to   ]
[transcribe it, that'd be really cool. I mean transcribe it for  ]
[fiddle, I could probably get it for guitar, with a lot of trouble. ]

C majorC                      FF
Ontario, y'know I've seen a ...
           C majorC                     A minorAm
Your scummy lakes and city of ....
FF  C majorC
I'd rather live by ...

C majorC                            FF
I've watched the V's of ...
             C majorC                    A minorAm
I've climbed the ridge of Gaspereaux Mt....
FF  C majorC
And watching the ...

Chorus

Guitar Solo:
  C majorC
  v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .  v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .
e----------3---3-3-----------------|-----3-------------------------0--e
B-/5--------------\3---1-------1-1-|/5------\3---1-------1-1-1--------B
G--------------------------2-------|-----------------2----------------G
D----------------------------------|----------------------------------D
A----------------------------------|----------------------------------A
E----------------------------------|----------------------------------E

  FF        C majorC                 A minorAm   FF
  v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .  v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .
e--1---1-1-1-0-----0---0-0-0-------|-------------------------1--------e
B--------------3-------------3-1---|-1---1-1-1-0----------------------B
G----------------------------------|-----------------2----------------G
D----------------------------------|----------------------------------D
A----------------------------------|----------------------------------A
E----------------------------------|----------------------------------E


  C majorC
  v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .
e--0-1-0---------------------------e
B--------3-1-0---0-1---------------B
G--------------2-------------------G
D----------------------------------D
A----------------------------------A
E----------------------------------E


Repeat chorus twice, then wrap it up.

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Notes on the Solo:
If anyone knows who's playing this, please tell me!
It's played quick & snappy- keeps you on your toes!
When he slides from/to a note it's always started on a whole step (two
frets) above/below, whichever's appropriate.
The backup A minorAm and FF following it are single strums only (this goes for
the rest of the song, too).
There are probably some grace notes & stuff which I didn't get, 'cause
this is my first attempt at transcribing anything. Nevertheless, I
think it's pretty good.


Notes on the Song:
Great song!
The rhythm is somewhat bluegrassy, a fast boom-chicka (bass note - strum
chord down/up).
The only real trouble I had was figuring out where the chord switch was
on the last line of each verse. There's a run from FF to C majorC which I play
something like this:
 FF    C majorC
 v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .
|-1---------------------------0---|
|-1---------------------------1---|
|-2---------------------------0---|
|-3-------3---2---0---2-------2---|
|-3-----------------------3---3---|
|---------------------------------|

So I'm not entirely sure where the actual switch is, but I think it's
right the way I finally put it.


Notes on the Tablature:
'v' is the beat.
'. . .' are the notes in-between, though the middle '.' could be
considered a lighter downbeat.
'/' is a slide up the note following.
'\' is a slide down to the note following.


Please send any comments, questions, queries, criticisms, about this
transcription to ME because Stan Rogers ain't around no more.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Peter Keller [[email protected]]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Wakefield, Rhode Island~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!MORE BLUEGRASS!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~