Chords for Davey Graham - Folk Britannia

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_ As Paul Simon himself said at that time when he was in London,
we were all learning off everybody else.
If somebody came up with a [Ab] new trick, everybody was latching onto it.
[G] Because we all of us wanted to improve.
You know, we all latched onto everything that Davy did. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Davy Graham has a theory [D] that there is a connection
between Oriental music _ and the folk music of Ireland.
And to prove this, he's going to play for us
his own _ _ variation of the Irish melody,
[E] She Moves Through The Fair.
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_ [Gbm] Davy's version [C] of She Moves Through The [Bm] Fair.
I was absolutely [G] stunned by this. _
It was improvisational, but he was [Gb] also using the guitar
in a way I'd never heard it used before.
It just blew me [C] away.
I couldn't figure out how [D] he'd done it.
_ [B] [C] The guy who played it to me, a guy called Gordon Geehy, _
Gordon [Bm] explained to me that he had the guitar tuned [C] differently.
_ _ [D] And that was something that had never occurred to me.
[Eb] What Davy was getting away [D] from was the idea that you had to be orchestral.
[G] _ He was [D] playing melodically rather than harmonically.
And the chords are suggested rather than imposed.
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_ seemed [A] natural to tune [D] the guitar something like
[Gm] the sitar, the sarod, and _ I took up the oud, the Arab lute.
I played the sarod for about 10 years, not to _ anybody's_
Nobody noticed, I don't think. _
And, but I was quite serious about the Arab lute.
I never mastered [F] the question and answer antiphonal responses
between treble and bass.
You get with that sort of music,
it's more particularly the natural style of music.
He was a very hard man to follow.
I don't mean musically, but I mean, I'd like to keep up with him.
_ _ _ Because he'll jump from one subject to another mid-sentence, you know. _ _
_ It's all logical in his mind.
I spent nearly 20 years studying [N] Afghan and _ Iraqi Takassim _ _ modes.
And _ _ they strike the _ lover of English folk music very oddly,
if at all.
If at all.
_ MUSIC
[G] _ But _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Abm] _ _ Davy Graham was never one to shirk [Bb] a [F] challenge.
And for his next musical adventure,
[Gb] he teamed up with folk's most celebrated English rose.
_ _ _ [Dbm] Shirley _ _ _
_ [B] Collins was part of what you might call
the first wave of the [Eb] post-war revival.
[Abm] Very sweet voice, _ singing songs, largely from the Sussex repertoire,
_ _ from the coppers and [Bb] people like that.
As soon as I [C] saw Blonde, oh, she_
I must confess to you, she nearly knocked me sideways.
[N] He was lovely, but he was cold. _ _
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_ [Bm] And although the music [N] itself was so utterly passionate,
you know, he was a sort of dispassionate person.
Very disciplined, except he took drugs, you know, which I didn't.
But to hear Shirley sing, I rode to church last Sunday.
My true love passed me by.
I knew his love was changing from the rolling of his eye, you know.
Just looked so absolutely [F]
wonderful, you know.
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_ _ _ So struck by her as _ a_
[Ab] _ All I loved about England, about _ Greensleeves,
about [Db] _ _ _ [C] _ _ Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,
all that.
_ It was wonderful to work with him,
because he really did sort of _ enhance this music
and give it such sort of strength, I think, as well,
and present it to people in a way that we hadn't thought.
To hear it, you know, we hadn't thought of listening to it like that before.
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_ In _ Nottingham _ [Bb] town
_ [D] Not a soul would let go
[C] _ By fusing the two strands of the folk movement,
Folk [Gm] Roots' New Roots became a defining [Ab] moment for British folk music.
_ [C] _ _ I think it was influential [E] in the sense of opening people's [Cm] ears
to the wider possibilities of what was being done.
I think without [Db] that album, we wouldn't have had Pentangle,
we wouldn't have had Fairport's Legion Leaf. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Rob Masry _ stands _ in the bar
_ _ _ _ _ _ Asleep
While Davy Graham and Shirley Collins' fusions were well-received critically,
they barely [Abm] registered commercially.
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Ab] But over in America, a mighty wind [Db] was blowing. _
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