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mehrsam
Dec-06-2009, 5:16pm
Our church pastor told me he'd like to hear "Christmas Time's A-Coming" during one of our upcoming Christmas services. He's a good old boy from Tennessee so I'm not really surprised.
Any one have music, chords, notes, tabs or anything charted out? I'll find a copy on iTunes so I have something to listen to, but printed aids are always helpful. Thanks.
D C Blood
Dec-06-2009, 5:31pm
I'm sure good ole YouTube will have any number of performances.
words can be found by way of Google. Chords are pretty simple 1,4,5 progressions. with the "B" part of the chorus going "1" chord into the "4" chord...
Bill Monroe's original solo is in the Dave Peters book Masters of the Mandolin.
evanreilly
Dec-07-2009, 2:22pm
Gotta put the Vibraphone part in it, just like WSM did!
blueridgemandolin
Dec-07-2009, 3:47pm
here is chords and lyrics at least its a start
Dan
http://gospelmusic.org.uk/carols/christmas_times_a-comin.htm
swampstomper
Dec-08-2009, 12:20am
Bill Monroe's original solo is in the Dave Peters book Masters of the Mandolin.
Yet another good excuse to get your copy of that book! The song is in E. Tex Logan wrote it and had a special cross-tuned fiddle part, which he couldn't be on hand for (probably busy with all that electrical engineering stuff).
mehrsam
Dec-08-2009, 8:34am
Thanks, everyone. Looks like I'll be doing some woodshedding for the next couple of weeks.