Chords for Masters of Delta Blues Guitar: Mississippi John Hurt Staggolee Guitar Lesson Blues MDBG

[D] Officer, how can it be?
Rest in everyone boat, crew [G]
staggerly.
_ [Dm] Bad man, [D] old staggerly.
_ [A]
Bad man, [Dm] old [D] _ staggerly. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] Hi, [G] and welcome to Masters of the Delta Blues Guitar [D] with Kevin Duggan.
_ _ [A] _ _
_ [Dm] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] Hi, my name's Kevin Duggan.
This is Masters of the Delta Blues Guitar,
[B] where the focus is [Bbm] on the Delta Blues genre,
but not [D] really limited to.
[Db] So this is in [Bb] the key of D.
[D] It's [Bbm] an old [D] Mississippi John Hurt song [Bm] called Staggerly,
which is an [Bb] old _ _ [Bbm] _ folk [A] standard [Bb] that he arranged.
I don't think he wrote it.
It's in the key of D.
He slides in at first,
always keeping an alternating bass.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] So right there [B] you're [Bb] sliding,
_ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ but the trick is to [D] keep an alternating bass.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [Dm] So what you're doing is, _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] you're F sharp and you're D there. _ _ _
Slide up to F sharp. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [B] So you're doing [Bb] a combination of hammer-ons and slides.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ Then he [G] goes to the G chord.
[B] So all you need to finger there is just these [Em] two top notes at first. _
[B] So [G] I'm pinching, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] coming down on the D note.
[Gm] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ And keeping an alternating bass. _
_ Back [Dm] to the D and sliding.
_ _ [D] _
Then to [A] an A. _ _
Where you have your pinky right out to the _ A note. _
_ _ [D] Slide out. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ That was a pinch to the B [Bb] from the top, the [G] G to the B.
Keeping the alternating bass. _
[Bb] Then bringing my [G] pinky down on the D note _ for _ _ [Gm] another pinch.
_ _ [Dm] _ [D] _ _
_ _ [E] Then [Bb] slide up, grabbing two strings. _
Two strings, the B string and the D string. _
Fingering basically [Ab] an A chord.
[Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ [Dbm] _ [A] _
_ _ [Cm] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
So this is in the key of D.
So [Bbm] if you want to make this song sound [D] even fuller,
[E] you could drop the D note.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ [D] _
_ _ _ Drop the E note rather, I'm sorry.
The E bass, your lowest note.
So you have a_ _
So _ now _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ your G, when you finger your G, you're going to be up on the 5.
[Bb] Because you just dropped _ your top string.
[G] _ _ _
[D] It's kind of almost easier to finger that way too.
[Gm] _ [G] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] It just gives you a fuller sound.
Plus you can do a bass line like this if you want.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Kind [Gm] _ _ [D] _
_ of _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ hard to keep that bass line going sometimes. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _
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_ _ _ [B] So that's Mississippi John Hurt's [D] Staggerly.
[Bb] It's just three [D] chords.
Your D chord.
I'm going [Bb] to drop D tuning right now, so your [Gm] G is going to be up here.
You can also finger, you can finger double here.
_ [Bb] Or you can finger it like [Ab] this if you want [G] to.
And that's still your G.
_ Doesn't sound too good for blues.
_ [Bb] So [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] [B] that's Staggerly by [D] Mississippi John Hurt.
And that's _ [Bb] the end of [D] this lesson,
which is the Masters of Delta Blues Guitar.
[Bb]
[D] Thanks, bye.
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