Chords for Scotland - Bill Monroe

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_ _ _ _ _ _ It's easy to get sentimental and overstate the [Em] connection between American [A] country music
and Scotland.
We've each of us, after all, got 16 great-great-grandparents, and each
one of them has 16 tunes.
[E] _ _ [A] An important part of the American tradition is Scottish.
The
fiddle tunes, ballads and so on that Scottish emigrants took with them across the Atlantic.
But that 3,000 miles of sea two or three hundred years ago was only the start of it.
There
was a long way to go.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ One of the crossroads was Bluegrass, named after the part of Kentucky
where Bill Monroe was born.
Bill Monroe, along with such performers as Al Scruggs and Lester
Flatt, can rightly claim to be the founding father of Bluegrass.
He's a living legend,
a member of the Country Music [E] Hall of Fame in Nashville.
[A] But he remains the kind of man
who prefers his farmyard porch to a mandolin-shaped swimming pool.
And Kenny Baker, who started
life as a miner, is very much a fiddle player's fiddler. _ _ _ _ _
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_ That's a great tune.
[N] Bill, your family came over here from Scotland, didn't you, originally?
The Monroes come from Scotland.
And is that because of your link with Scotland that you've named that tune?
I always loved the way that Scottish music was played, you know, and the sound going
way on back in the way of the tones hundreds of years ago.
I loved that part of it.
And
I'd heard some Scottish bagpiping over in this country, and I just wanted to make a
memory like that, call it Scotland.
Well, how did you get started in the music?
Well, to start with, my mother, she liked to play the fiddle, and my Uncle Penn Vanderbilt,
my mother's side of the family, was a wonderful fiddler.
And he would come and visit [Abm] us once
in a while, and I would get to listen to him play the fiddle, you know.
You learned lots of tunes from him.
You did a really nice album called Uncle Penn.
Would
you like to play one or two of his tunes?
Yeah, that'd be fine.
Yeah?
Well, why didn't you do that?
Pick out one, Kenny.
Yeah, [A] yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's do Ginny Lynn.
Ginny Lynn, that's fine. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ don't know exactly how many Scottish families came over the Appalachians, down through the
Cumberland Gap, and on out west, with the fiddle packed away in the back of the wagon.
We do know there were a lot who stayed