Chords for Thom Bresh Teaches Cannonball Rag

[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [Abm] _ _
[E] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ [Em] _ [Gbm] _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ [G] _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Db] _ [Bb] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ [D] _ [G] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ [Am] _ [G] _ [Am] _
[Bbm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[Dbm] _ [Bb] _ [Bm] _ [A] _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That song, of course, is one of Travis's most famous songs, the Cannonball Rag.
It's been called the Cannonball Rag, the Cannonball Stomp, _ Cannonball, and just Cannon. _ _ _ _
_ It's got a lot of the chords we discussed earlier in it.
_ It starts out, of course, it's in the key of G, and it starts out with an E7 with that _
weird [E] sort of a _ _ _ E7 chord like this. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And you'll notice on this one, Travis always seemed to alternate the bass, but instead
of like Chet doing that little alternating boom-tick-tick-tick, Travis hit those strings
and strum it _ _ doing _ _ _ _ _ _ this. _
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ And you get that thumb over there.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ So _ [E] _ you get that E7 chord. _ _ _ _
This is all I'm doing with the thumb, just once again, that big heavy thumb, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] all one
finger if you must be [E] authentic. _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] That's just an A chord with that, keeping that _ [Gbm] B on [A] top, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ [Ab] [A] into this [Am] _ ninth that he does once again.
_ And you're bringing, you're using your thumb to do the bass lead lines, so you've [E] got, _ _
_ _ keeping [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
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the same chord and just bringing up the E string with your little finger, [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ lifting it up.
That's why you don't want to use that barre chord, because you can't lift it up.
_ [Em] _ _
[G] _ _ Just [Ab] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ a [G] repeat of the first part. _ _ _ _
Now you [D] go to a regular [A] D7 chord with [E] an A on the bottom.
Travis [A] always [D] grabbed _ _ both of those [A] strings with this one finger.
[D] _ _ [Ab] [D] So you're going, [Gb] _ _ _
[D] you're just pulling it.
_ [C] _ As you bring down your thumb with the afterbeat, you're pulling [Ab] this B [Eb] string _ to _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Dm] an open E.
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _
_ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ Doing the same thing with [G] a G chord.
Get that thumb over there, _ _ hit both of those strings.
Don't forget to hit them.
Don't be nice and clean. _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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