Chords for Greasy Coat

_ Okay, this next tune that I'm going to do is a tune that I got straight out of this
book, the Phillips Collection of Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, Volume 1, _ Hodon's Breakdowns
and Reels, _ Melbae, number 94711.
This is Greasy Coat, and in here he says it's Ruthie Dornfeld's version.
_ [A] _ _
_ [G#] So I'm going to play it, I play it in cross-tuning.
It's [A] a little easier that way, _ A-E-A-E.
Some people play it in regular tuning, that's fine, nothing wrong with that of course.
But I like those kind of sympathetic vibrating strings too.
Okay, _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
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so that's one time through it.
We'll break it down like this.
Starts off, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ okay, try that a couple times.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
And then it's followed by, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ okay, let's do that one more. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] Okay, that's the second statement, I guess you could say that in the melody.
And then that's followed by, _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ [F#] that's pretty simple.
_ [C] _
[A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
[D] That's followed by, _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ bouncing your, dancing [B] your fingers up and down the fretboard on
the A string.
And _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ then that's followed by the end of the A part. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ So that's the whole A part.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ A part.
[B] Only played once, at least that's what it says in the book.
B part, just run up an A minor scale, _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
pretty easy, that part.
Let's do it one more time.
You can pause it of course, and play it as many times as you want.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[B] That's followed by, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that's followed by. _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ Okay, and then that's followed by, _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ because, that cuts off right there, because that's
followed by another little ending lick. _ _ _ _ _
_ The ending lick.
_ _ [F] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ It's all third [B] and second finger there. _ _
[A] _ _ [N] Okay, you play the B part twice, A part once, it's a great tune.
[A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] So remember, my versions of all these tunes are just blueprints, just things I get out
of books and I listen to on CDs and people show them to me, and my banjo player that
I've worked with for many years has shown me a bunch of tunes.
_ Make them your own, these are the blueprints, these are the notes that I use anyway, and
I hope you choose wisely, and you know, get your own stuff going too.
So this is pretty cool.
This is a great tune and I hope you have fun with it.
Okay,