All The Good Times (Traditional)

Here is my all time favorite drinking song. There may not be much point in putting it up here because you can figure out how to play it in like two seconds, but maybe it will be helpful anyways. The chords are only G - C - D, and go like this the whole song:

G                      C        G             
All the good times are past and gone, 
G                      D
all the good times are over. 
G                      C        G
All the good times are past and gone,
G
little darling don't you 
D       C    G
weep no more.

Those words are the chorus, and should be sung after every verse, preferably by a large crowd of people all with beers in hand, totally shitfaced. Here are the rest of the words the way I like to sing them. The version of the song that I think is best is by Mr. Fox, here is a link to that. There's another more popular version thats more country style and is about a woman leaving and that's why all the good times are over. I say fuck that. Here are the words:

The singer has left his song on the air
The hunter has hung up his horn
After the day the long long night
and after the night the dawn

I don't want to sit at your table so bright
I don't want a bed on your floor
You can't hunt me down through the forests of love
And nail up my hide to your door

Forget all the tales i've threatened to tell you
Forget all the pains in your head
The meek and the weak shall inherit the earth
The savage and honest are dead

Build me a boat where the willows once grew
Where the vole and the otters swam free
Row me away from this desolate land
And make for the open sea

I hope those lyrics are right, it took me FOREVER to figure out some of the words. The first line of the third verse is the only one I have a good feeling might be wrong. If you listen to it and hear something else let me know.

Perry Leopold - The 35th of May (P. Leopold)

Here's one of my favorite songs from the Experiments in Metaphysics album. Maybe I'll post some more off of that album later. Put a Capo on the 4th fret for this one.

The song has one verse progression and one chorus progression and that is all. Here is the verse:

Aadd9 - E - G - Aadd9

(Aadd9 is just an Am with the B string open instead of the C note)

E I--------------------------------------I
B I-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0--I
G I-------2-----2-----------2-----2------I
D I---------2-----2-----------2-----2----I
A I---0-----------------0----------------I
E I--------------------------------------I

E I--------------------------------------I
B I-----0-----0-----0---0-----0----------I
G I-------1-----1---------1-----1--------I
D I---------------2----------------------I
A I---------2---------------2------------I
E I---0---------------0-----------0--2---I

E I--------------------------------------I
B I-----0-----0-----0---0-----0-----0----I
G I-------0-----0---------0-----0--------I
D I---------------0---------------0------I
A I---------2---------------2------------I
E I---3---------------3------------------I

E I--------------------------------------I
B I-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0--I
G I-------2-----2-----------2-----2------I
D I---------2-----2-----------2-----2----I
A I---0-----------------0----------------I
E I--------------------------------------I

Now here is the chorus part:

D - C - D - C

E I---------------------------------------I
B I-----3-----3-----3------3-----3-----3--I
G I-------2-----2------------2-----2------I
D I---0-----0-----0------0-----0-----0----I
A I---------------------------------------I
E I---------------------------------------I

E I---------------------------------------I
B I-----1-----1-----1---1-----1-----1-----I
G I-------0-----0---------0-----0---------I
D I---------2-----2---------2-----2-------I
A I---3---------------3-------------------I
E I---------------------------------------I

E I---------------------------------------I
B I-----3-----3-----3------3-----3-----3--I
G I-------2-----2------------2-----2------I
D I---0-----0-----0------0-----0-----0----I
A I---------------------------------------I
E I---------------------------------------I


E I---------------------------------------I
B I-----1-----1-----1---1-----1-----1-----I
G I-------0-----0---------0-----0---------I
D I---------2-----2---------2-----2-------I
A I---3---------------3-------------------I
E I---------------------------------------I

and thats it. Not too difficult if you ask me. Here are the words, which are a little bit hippie-dippie for me, but oh well. There's still a wierd cosmic quality to it.

Silver moonbeam on her hair
Blowing in the cool damp river air
Moving gently by the shore
Seems i've seen this night before
Like a dream she takes my hand
As I walk her in the sand
Love can bend so many ways
And I hope this angle stays

Love has come to me today
Remembered as the 35th of May

Stars twinkle in the sky
Nightingales sing nocturnal sighs
My love blends into natures breast
As we lay down to rest
Treasure abounds in my loves eye
I reap the fortune from on high
Silently she sings a song of love
As bells of joy ring out above

Love has come to me today
Remembered as the 35th of May

We made a pact of love tonight
Let two love eachother and mankind
Just then a light fired up the sky
Five hundred clouds had formed a smile
The gods had sent a breath of peace
Blowing 'cross the world from west to east
All wars have ended on this day
This is the 35th of May

What better goal could love achieve
Then to have all men live side by side in peace

Our love has symbolized the truth
Of all that blossoms in our youth
One day love might reign supreme
And I hope this isn't just a dream

and here is a link to the song.

The Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney (B. Boshell)

This song has a fairly simple droning picking pattern. The song opens up with a C chord. I like to play it as a bar chord which allows you to pick out the lead part with your pinky, It's a little tricky but should only take a bit of time to train your fingers. Like this:

E I-----3--5--6--5--3-------I
B I--5h65--5--5--5--5--6--5-I
G I--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5-I
D I--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5-I
A I--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3-I
E I-------------------------I

Use your pinky for the notes on the top two strings, except play the high G on the 3rd fret by extending your first finger across one more string.

Let's call that the bridge. It plays as the intro and then at the end of every second verse, as well as the outro.

The Main progression for the song goes like this:

Dm - A - Bbm - Gm - Dm/A - A - Dm - A
Dm - A - Bbm - Gm - Dm/A - A - Bbm - Gm - Dm - A - Dm

Dm - A - Bbm - Gm - Dm/A - A - Dm - A
Dm - A - Bbm - Gm - Dm/A - A - Bbm - Gm - C (Bridge)

Easy enough. The picking pattern is very simple, i'll just do a small section of it and you'll get the drift:

E I------3---------------------I
B I------1-----2-----3-----3---I
G I----2-------2-----3-----3---I
D I--0-------2-----3-----------I
A I--------0-----1-------5-----I
E I--------------------3-------I

...and so on like that. Take some liberties with it as the song progresses if you feel so inclined. It shouldn't take long for your hands to fall into the hypnotic rhythm and soon you will understand the true pain of Jane Delawney and her fucked up garden.

Here are the lyrics:

The poet's voice lingers on
His words hang in the air
The ground you walk upon
Might as well not be there
Might as well not be there

I'll take you through my dreams
Out into the darkest morning
Past the blood filled streams
Into the garden of Jane Delawney
Into the garden now

Though the rose is fair
Don't pluck it as you pass
For a fire will consume your hair
And your eyes will turn to glass
Your eyes will turn to glass

In the willow's shade
Don't lie to hear it weep
For its tears of gold and jade
Will drown you as you sleep
Will drown you now

Jane Delawney had her dreams
That she never did discover
For the flow that feeds the stream
Is the life blood of her lover
Is the life blood of her lover

And the purifying beam
Of the sun will shine here never
While the spirit of her dream
In the garden lives forever
Lives forever now.............

And that's that. Here is a link to the audio for the song.

-Honeydripper

Hello world of darkness

Hey this is my new blog. It's a tablature site for guitar players. I've been somewhat frustrated with the output of psych, folk, and acid tablature available on the internet so I decided to take matters into my own hands. We'll see how this works out I suppose. I'll start out with my favorites and branch out from there. Feel free to send me requests or contributions.

Fresh out the void suckas

-Honeydripper