Tablature highway blues - Roy Harper

          



 From: Aaro J Koskinen <akoskine@cc.helsinki.fi>

  

  [Song: Roy Harper "Highway Blues"]

  [Transcription by Dave Coniam (B096770@vax.csc.cuhk.hk)]

  

  I dunno which open tuning Roy uses but you'll a lot of stuff is

  in some open tuning or other - as Gordon's naming of chords like

  G1 and Bm1 suggests.

  

  I play a lot of stuff in open E tuning - just crank the 3rd, 4th

  and 5th strings up so that when you hit them you get the E chord

  without holding down any strings. I find it's a great tuning for

  a lot of old Joni and Beatles songs.

  

  Here's an attempt at Highways Blues, which, like a lot of Harper

  songs, requires very few chords.

  

  In the "main" verses you hammer a sort of E and a vague D6;

  following Gordon's line, I've called these E1 and A1.

  

  The chorus then shifts to a good old E - A - B run.

  

  I've only included a few of the words. Mebbe some kinder soul cd

  stick the whole song on the list: the last verse I cant

  remember/work it all out.

  

  

  Fret

  :0... _ _ _ _ _ ... _ _ _ _ _ ... _ _ _ _ _ ... _ _ _ _ _

   1   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|

   2   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|

   3   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_1_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|

   4   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|

   5   |_1_|_|_|_|   |_|_4_|_|_|   1_1_1_1_1_1   |_|_|_|_|_|

   6   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|

   7   |_|_4_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   |_|_|_|_|_|   1_1_1_1_1_1

  

          E1            D1               A           B

  

  

  Intro : E1 - D1 - E1 - D1 - E1 - D1 - E1

  

  E1                     D1                        E1

  Take a walk down your highway, tell me what you see

  

  E1 - D1 - E1 - D1 -

  

  E1             D1                            E1

  If you're down my way, well it could well be me

  

  [.....]

  

  A                   E1      A                            E1

    Please give me a lift man,   you know it won't be for far

  

  A                  E1      A               B

  The way that you shift man, in your empty car

  

  [.....]

  

  E1                   D1      E1        D1

  I got the Highways Blues in my holey shoes

  

  E1             D1             E1

  and I cannot choose what I look like

  

  [.....]

  

  Like anything in an open tuning, this is pretty approximate, but

  hammer away at it after a beer or two and it shdnt sound too bad!

  

  "Once" goes pretty OK in open E as well- you basically fiddle

  around on the top and second strings, picking out the melody, and

  plonking a few chords (A, G# and B) in here and there. I'll bung

  that up on the list as well if anybody's intrested.

  

  

  Bash away

  

  Dave Coniam

  Hong Kong

  

   


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