Chords for "500 Miles" Seeger Style banjo

_ _ Alright, we're gonna take a look at 500 miles by Hedy West
She's the one who wrote it.
She played it on the banjo and she played a secret style.
So that's how we're gonna work
Here it is
_ We're in the key of D it's [D] the C tuning _ [A] _ _
but capo [D] it up to D _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ If _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ you miss the train I'm on [G] you will know that I am gone
_ _ [A] _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ You can hear the whistle
[A]
[D] Lord _ _ _ I'm one Lord.
I'm two [G] Lord.
I'm three Lord
_ Lord, I'm [Bm] five [A] hundred [D] miles away from home
Away from home away from home away [G] from home away from [D] Lord.
I'm
500 [A]
miles [D] away
If my honey said so I [G] would railroad [D] no more I would sidetrack [A] my
[D] And go _ _ _ home and go home and [G] go home and go home I [D] would Sidetrack [A] my
[D] Not _ _ [Bm] a [D] shirt on my back [G] not a penny to my name I can't make
[A]
[D] This _ _ _ away this away this [G] away
_ Lord I can't [A] make I
[D] _ _ _ [Bm] Told my [D] little
Just as I [G] could
_ _ [A] Go [D] _ _ _ _ with me go with me [G] go with me go with me
She better [A] come along
[D] Go with me
_ My shoes are all worn and my clothes [G] are all gone
But I can't [A] go back home [D] this away
This away this away this [G] away this away Lord, I [A] can't go back
[D] _
_ _ This
Train runs right?
I'll be home [G] tomorrow.
_ [D] I'll be coming down
[A] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] I'm [D] coming [F#m] down
_ [D] _
_ I
Is _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [E] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ the train I'm [G] on you will know that I am you [D] can [A] hear
A [D] _ hundred _ miles a hundred miles a hundred [G] miles a hundred miles
You [D] can hear [A] the whistle
_ [D] _ Essentially _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ that is
Mostly just playing chords behind the melody
just sort of
varying where you do the up on the on the
the basic strum
Doing _ _ _ _ various things like that
_ Or playing along with the melody
_ On the banjo _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[D] You can hear
[A] _ [D] And _ _ _ the solo the melody has played on the banjo
the way I do it anyway, there's a million ways to do it, but the way I
Figure it out is like this.
I'll do it very slowly.
It's very simple just follows the melody _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ and you can add
double thumbing there I _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
Wouldn't add too much double something.
It's kind of nice to have it a lot of space
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And the way I started it off was [C] kind of like the way Hedy West does it in her [F#m] recording she kind of goes
[G] I've _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ always liked that beginning what I'm doing is just I'm just pinching [G] the
first string and the fifth string a pinch is when you take your index finger and your thumb and you and you
Up pick two strings at the same [A] time Pinching it _
That's
What I was doing is [D] so doing a C [Am] chord but with an open first string
[D] [G] Nice _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ opening.
All right, I