Chords for Davey Graham "She Moves Through the Fair" AKA "White Summer"
Tempo:
144 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
C
C#
Cm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[D] The Irish melody, [E] she moves through the [D] pan.
[G]
[D]
[C]
[Bm] It
[G]
was improvisational, [F#m] but it was also using the guitar in a way I'd never heard it used before.
It just blew me away.
[C] I couldn't figure [D] out how he'd done it.
[G] The guy who played it to me, a guy called Gordon Keefe, [D] [F#] Gordon explained to me that
the guitar tuned [Dm] differently.
[G] [C]
[D] And that was something that had never occurred [G] to me.
What Daly was getting away [D] from was the idea that you had to be orchestral.
[G] He was playing [D] melodically rather than [C] harmonically.
And the chords are suggested [D] rather than imposed.
[G]
[D] [C]
[Dm] [D]
[G]
[D]
[G]
[D]
[Cm] [G] [D]
[G] [D]
[G] [D]
[G]
[D#] [C]
[C#]
[C] [D]
[Cm] [C]
By fusing the two strands of the folk movement, folk [Gm] roots new roots became a defining moment
for [C] British folk music.
I think it was influential [A#] in the sense of opening [Cm] people's ears to the wider possibilities
of what was being done.
I think [N] without that album, we wouldn't have had Pentangle, we wouldn't have had Fairport's
Leech and Leaf.
[C#]
While Davy Graham and Shirley Collins' [A] fusions were well received critically, they barely [B] registered commercially.
[C#] [B] [G#] But over in America, a mighty [C#] wind was blowing.
[G]
[D]
[C]
[Bm] It
[G]
was improvisational, [F#m] but it was also using the guitar in a way I'd never heard it used before.
It just blew me away.
[C] I couldn't figure [D] out how he'd done it.
[G] The guy who played it to me, a guy called Gordon Keefe, [D] [F#] Gordon explained to me that
the guitar tuned [Dm] differently.
[G] [C]
[D] And that was something that had never occurred [G] to me.
What Daly was getting away [D] from was the idea that you had to be orchestral.
[G] He was playing [D] melodically rather than [C] harmonically.
And the chords are suggested [D] rather than imposed.
[G]
[D] [C]
[Dm] [D]
[G]
[D]
[G]
[D]
[Cm] [G] [D]
[G] [D]
[G] [D]
[G]
[D#] [C]
[C#]
[C] [D]
[Cm] [C]
By fusing the two strands of the folk movement, folk [Gm] roots new roots became a defining moment
for [C] British folk music.
I think it was influential [A#] in the sense of opening [Cm] people's ears to the wider possibilities
of what was being done.
I think [N] without that album, we wouldn't have had Pentangle, we wouldn't have had Fairport's
Leech and Leaf.
[C#]
While Davy Graham and Shirley Collins' [A] fusions were well received critically, they barely [B] registered commercially.
[C#] [B] [G#] But over in America, a mighty [C#] wind was blowing.
Key:
D
G
C
C#
Cm
D
G
C
[D] _ The Irish melody, [E] she moves through the [D] pan.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] It _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
was _ _ _ _ improvisational, [F#m] but it was also using the guitar in a way I'd never heard it used before.
It just blew me away.
[C] I couldn't figure [D] out how he'd done it.
_ [G] The guy who played it to me, a guy called Gordon Keefe, [D] _ _ [F#] Gordon explained to me that
the guitar tuned [Dm] differently.
[G] _ _ [C] _
[D] And that was something that had never occurred [G] to me.
What Daly was getting away [D] from was the idea that you had to be orchestral.
[G] He was playing [D] melodically rather than [C] harmonically.
And the chords are suggested [D] rather than imposed.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D#] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C]
By fusing the two strands of the folk movement, folk [Gm] roots new roots became a defining moment
for [C] British folk music.
_ _ _ _ I think it was influential _ [A#] in the sense of opening [Cm] people's ears to the wider possibilities
of what was being done.
I think [N] without that album, we wouldn't have had Pentangle, we wouldn't have had _ Fairport's
Leech and Leaf.
[C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ While Davy Graham and Shirley Collins' [A] fusions were well received critically, they barely [B] registered commercially. _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [B] _ [G#] But over in America, a mighty [C#] wind was blowing. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] It _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
was _ _ _ _ improvisational, [F#m] but it was also using the guitar in a way I'd never heard it used before.
It just blew me away.
[C] I couldn't figure [D] out how he'd done it.
_ [G] The guy who played it to me, a guy called Gordon Keefe, [D] _ _ [F#] Gordon explained to me that
the guitar tuned [Dm] differently.
[G] _ _ [C] _
[D] And that was something that had never occurred [G] to me.
What Daly was getting away [D] from was the idea that you had to be orchestral.
[G] He was playing [D] melodically rather than [C] harmonically.
And the chords are suggested [D] rather than imposed.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D#] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C]
By fusing the two strands of the folk movement, folk [Gm] roots new roots became a defining moment
for [C] British folk music.
_ _ _ _ I think it was influential _ [A#] in the sense of opening [Cm] people's ears to the wider possibilities
of what was being done.
I think [N] without that album, we wouldn't have had Pentangle, we wouldn't have had _ Fairport's
Leech and Leaf.
[C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ While Davy Graham and Shirley Collins' [A] fusions were well received critically, they barely [B] registered commercially. _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [B] _ [G#] But over in America, a mighty [C#] wind was blowing. _ _ _ _