"Blue Ridge" chords

[Jim Gallaher]

Can anyone post the chords for this beautiful tune from the Jonathan Edwards/Seldom Scene album of the same name?

[Brian Baker]

Jim:

What a great song! Here's what I've taken from the Seldom Scene 15th Anniv live CD... The positioning of the chords with respect to the words might get thrown off by your browser. If you cut and past this into Word, and then change to Courier font, they should be right...

Chorus:
A D Bm
Blue.........ue.....Ridge
A
Do you call to all your children
E
like you've been calling me?
A D Bm
Blue.........ue......Ridge
D E A
Why are you calling me home?

Verse:
A D
Now there came a time when I travelled to far
D E A
To too many places and too many bars
F#m Bm
But all that I travelled and all that I earned
Bm E
Were no consolation for all that I yearned
Bm D
The dew on the laurel, the tall swaying pine,
A F#m
The clear mountain water, the blue starry sky
Bm D E
Take me back, take me back to...

Enjoy!
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[Brian Baker]

Well, sure enough, the chord changes don't match the words exactly, and the pasting into Word didn't work for me either. But hopefully this'll get you close!

One quick story. Back in the mid 90s, I had just discovered bluegrass, and bluegrass festivals, and festival jams... I was playing bass in a jam at the Cherokee Bluegrass Festival in NC, when three guys asked if they could join the jam. It was a father and his two teenage sons (big ole boys!) from Kentucky. One of the boys took over on bass, another one played guitar, and I think Dad just sang. But they launched in to the most vocally haunting song I'd ever heard, in perfect 3-part. It was "Blueridge", and to this day I think that is the most magical jam session moment I can ever recall. They just flat nailed it, and everyone was spellbound.

Don't know who they were or where they ran off to, but it made this song a favorite of mine!

Brian

PS - Hope you enjoy the chord sheet! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[Jim Gallaher]

Worked out perfect, Brian! Thanks for your help.

Jim:)

[Moose]

Just a "sidenote" - I believe J. Edwards does another on the above mentioned session(15th Anniversary album) - "I Couldn't Find My Walkin' Shoes" - written by Paul Craft...I think. A very beautiful, powerful, song. Incidently, that entire tape/CD is a 'keeper' - IMHO - Sorry to digress. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Willie]

Hey Moose...I might be wrong but I thought that was Lou Reid doing "Couldn`t Find My Walking Shoes"...Anyway a great song and I have been working on it some....check your e mails, I am sending you one about the 14th of Nov.....willie