Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Play around with the strumming pattern on this - it's pretty loose and bluesy.
Full track to play along to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrgcFa-QyNM
Intro starts with a slide guitar improv.
Acoustic intro chords are (roughly)
| E / / A | repeated - play about with it, loose and bluesy!
[Chorus]
E A E
Carry me down real slow
E A E
Carry me down real slow
A E
Carry me down these stairs I know
A E
Carry me down these stairs I know
[improv around | E / / A | for a bit in between each verse and chorus, and chorus into verse]
[Verse]
E
Sun gonna shine all day
B A
They take me away
A E
big black car take me to the yard
E
look at my wife and kid
B A
look at my wife and kid
A E
Wonderin' what it was I did
[Chorus]
E A E
Carry me down real slow
E A E
Carry me down real slow
A E
Now I care how fast I go
A E
Now I care how fast I go
[Instrumental with vocal improv]
| E / / / | E / B / | A / / E | B / E / | x2
[Verse]
E
Flowers by the yard
B A
Must be fifteen cars
A E
He was loved, they say, they say
B E
He was loved
E
Look at the big black car
B A
Rolling down the boulevard
A E
Who was that, they said they said
B E
I don't know but he's dead
[Chorus]
E
So carry me down real slow
E
Yeah carry me down real slow
A E
Now I care how fast I go
A E
Now I care how fast I go
A E
Carry me down these stairs I know
A E
Carry me down these stairs I know
A E
Carry me down these stairs
[Instrumental with vocal improv]
| E / / / | E / B / | A / / E | B / E / | x2
[long instrumental over | E / / A | to fade]
Full track to play along to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrgcFa-QyNM
Intro starts with a slide guitar improv.
Acoustic intro chords are (roughly)
| E / / A | repeated - play about with it, loose and bluesy!
[Chorus]
E A E
Carry me down real slow
E A E
Carry me down real slow
A E
Carry me down these stairs I know
A E
Carry me down these stairs I know
[improv around | E / / A | for a bit in between each verse and chorus, and chorus into verse]
[Verse]
E
Sun gonna shine all day
B A
They take me away
A E
big black car take me to the yard
E
look at my wife and kid
B A
look at my wife and kid
A E
Wonderin' what it was I did
[Chorus]
E A E
Carry me down real slow
E A E
Carry me down real slow
A E
Now I care how fast I go
A E
Now I care how fast I go
[Instrumental with vocal improv]
| E / / / | E / B / | A / / E | B / E / | x2
[Verse]
E
Flowers by the yard
B A
Must be fifteen cars
A E
He was loved, they say, they say
B E
He was loved
E
Look at the big black car
B A
Rolling down the boulevard
A E
Who was that, they said they said
B E
I don't know but he's dead
[Chorus]
E
So carry me down real slow
E
Yeah carry me down real slow
A E
Now I care how fast I go
A E
Now I care how fast I go
A E
Carry me down these stairs I know
A E
Carry me down these stairs I know
A E
Carry me down these stairs
[Instrumental with vocal improv]
| E / / / | E / B / | A / / E | B / E / | x2
[long instrumental over | E / / A | to fade]
Mark Geary
Mark Germino
Mark Gillespie
Mark Gormley
Mark Greaney