Quarantunes Jam 2021 Quarantunes Jam - 1 Across the Great Divide 4 Ain’t No Mountain High Enough 5 Angel From Montgomery 6 Bad Penny Blues 7 Big Yellow Taxi 8 Boulder to Birmingham 9 Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow 10 Calypso Freedom (Freedom Coming) 11 Can’t Let Go 12 Catch the Wind 13 A Change is Gonna Come 14 Cold Cold Heart 16 Crazy 17 Don’t Come Home Drinkin’ With Lovin’ On Your Mind 18 Don’t Stop Believin’ 19 Drag Queens in Limousines 20 Dreams 22 Freight Train 23 From Me to You 24 Georgia on my Mind 25 Green Green Rocky Road 26 Hallelujah 27 Homeward Bound 28 I Can’t Help But Wonder 29 I Will Always Love You 30 If I Had a Hammer 31 If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out 32 Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning 33 Lahainaluna 34 Landslide 35 Lean on Me 36 Leavin’ on a Jetplane 38 Let it Be 39 Me and Bobby McGee 40 Morning Dew 42 Quarantunes Jam - 2 Ode to Billie Joe 43 Please Don’t Bury Me 44 Rainbow 46 Rock Me 48 Somos El Barco 49 Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World 50 Song for a Winter’s Night 52 St. Louis Blues 53 Stand By Me 54 Sweet Home Chicago 55 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 56 This Little Light of Mine 56 ’T Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do 57 Time After Time 58 Trouble in Mind 60 Wade in the Water 61 Wagonwheel 62 We Shall Not Be Moved 63 We Shall Overcome 64 Wildflowers (Dolly Parton) 65 Wildflowers (Tom Petty) 66 Will the Circle Be Unbroken 67 Woke Up This Morning 68 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere 69 Quarantunes Jam - 3 Across the Great Divide Kate Wolf - Gold in California (1984) - Listen here Standard time - Each chord = 4 beats, except * = 2 beats - Standard strum Intro: A A* D* A A F#m F#m D D A F#m D* E7* A A A A* D* A Verse 1: I’ve been walking … in my sleep F#m D Counting troubles instead of counting sheep A A F#m F#m Where the years went … I can’t say D E7 A A I just turned around … and they’ve gone a-way Verse 2: I’ve been sifting through the layers / of dusty books and faded papers They tell a story I used to know / it was one that happened so long a-go Chorus: A A* D* A A F#m F#m D D It’s gone away … in yester-day … now I find myself on the mountain side A F#m D* E7* A A Where the rivers change di-rection, a-cross the great di-vide Verse 3: Well I heard the owl calling / softly as the night was falling With a question, and I re-plied / but he’s gone across the border-line Chorus Verse 4 (Single strums on underlined lyrics): The finest hour I have seen / is the one that comes be-tween The edge of night and the break of day / it’s when the dark-ness rolls a-way Chorus x2, End on G Quarantunes Jam - 4 Ain’t No Mountain High Enough By Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson - Recorded by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (1967) Standard time / Each chord = 4 beats / Calypso strum Intro: Am D7 F G7 Listen baby… Verse 1: Am D7 F G7 Ain’t no mountain high, ain’t no valley low, ain’t no river wide enough baby Am D7 F G7 If you need me call me no matter where you are, no matter how far Am D7 F G7 Just call my name I'll be there in a hurry, you don't have to worry Chorus: Am G* Am* Am G* Am* ’Cause baby there ain't no mountain high e-nough… ain’t no valley low e-nough Am G* Am* D7 F Ain't no river wide e-nough… to keep me from getting to you babe Verse 2: Remember the day I set you free, I told you you could always count on me darling From that day on, I made a vow, I’ll be there when you want me, some way, some how Chorus G G G G7 Bridge: …. Oh no darling … no wind, no rain E7 Am D7 D7 Or winters cold can stop me baby G G 'Cause you are my goal … … If you're ever in trouble, I’ll be there on the double G7 G7 Just send for me, oh baby … Verse 3: __ My love is a-live, way down in my heart, although we are miles apart If you ever need a helping hand, I'll be there on the double, just as fast as I can Chorus x 2 - Outro: F Am Quarantunes Jam - 5 Angel From Montgomery John Prine (1971 - John Prine) - Recorded by Bonnie Raitt (1974) Standard time / Each chord = 2 slow beats Family of D: Extra chord: When you’re ready, try this strum pattern: Intro: Vamp… D G D G D G D G Verse 1: I am an old woman, named after my mother D G A7 D My old man is another child who's grown old D G D G If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire D G A7 D This old house it would've burned down a long time ago D C G D Chorus: Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery D C G D Make me a poster of an old ro - de - o D C G D Just give me one thing that I can hold on to D C G D To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go D G D G Verse 2: When I was a young girl, I had me a cowboy D G A7 D It wasn't much to look at, he was a free ramblin' man D G D G There was a long time, no matter how I tried D G A7 D The years they just rolled by like a broken down dam … Chorus D G D G Verse 3: There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear them them buzzin' D G A7 D And I ain't done nothing since I woke up to - day D G D G But how the hell can a person go to work in the morning D G A7 D And come home in the evening and have nothing to say … Chorus Outro: Repeat last line of chorus, end on D Quarantunes Jam - 6 Bad Penny Blues Mandy Troxel - Forthcoming - Play along here Standard time - Each chord = 4 beats, except * = 2 beats, / = 1 strum - Swing strum Intro: Am* E7* Am* E7* Am* E7* Am/ (4) Am* E7* Am* E7* Am* E7* Am* E7* A1: Bad penny blues … bad penny blues Am/ (8) E7/ (8) Runs in my stockings and … holes in my shoes Am Am Dm Dm You were so shiny new … when I got hold of you Am E7 Am* E7* Am/ (4) Bad … penny blues A2: Nickels and dimes ___ nickels and dimes ___ ___ Countin’ out change is takin’ ___ all my time ___ If I am payin’ dues ___ I’d like to know just whose Bad … penny blues Am/ (4) C C C C B: My loving cup … my loving cup C C G G You came a-long and said you’d … fill it up C C7 F Fm And I thought my ship was finally in … turns out you were counterfeitin’ C E7 Am* E7* Am/ (4) Bad … penny blues A3: Bad penny blues ___ bad penny blues ___ ___ Give me some currency that ___ I can use I got no change in my lovin’ cup, ___ you keep on turnin’ up Bad … penny blues Am* E7* Am/ (8) Dm/ (8) Outro: I got no change in my lovin’ cup … you keep on turnin’ up Am E7 Am* E7* Am/ Am/ Am/ (End) Bad … penny blues Quarantunes Jam - 7 Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon (1970) - Listen to the original here Standard time / Each chord = 4 beats, except *= 2 beats Intro: C C/F C C/F C C/F C C/F (vamp pattern - use anytime you are hanging on C) F F C C Verse 1: They paved paradise and put up a parking lot F G7 C C With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot Chorus (repeat after each verse): C/(8) Don't it always seem to go F F* C That you don't know what you've got ‘til it's gone F G7 C C They paved paradise and put up a parking lot F F C C Verse 2: They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum F G7 C C Then they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em F F C C Verse 3: Hey farmer, farmer, put away that D-D-T now F G7 C Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees C Please! F F C C Verse 4: Late last night I heard the screen door slam F G7 C C And a big yellow taxi took away my old man Tag after final chorus: Repeat last line of chorus Quarantunes Jam - 8 Boulder to Birmingham Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky (1975) - Listen to the original recording here Standard time - Each chord = 4 beats - March strum or Standard time picking Intro: G G D7 D7/ (4) G G Em C G G V1: I don't want to hear a love song … I got on this airplane just to fly D7 D7 D7 C And I know there's life be-low me, but all that you can show me G G/C G D7 Is the prairie and the sky V2: And _I_ don't want to hear a sad story __ __ full of heart-break and de-sire __ The last time I felt like this I was in the wilder-ness and the canyon was on fire G (no D7) Em A A C C G G Pre-Ch: And I stood on the mountain … in the night and I watched it burn D7 D7 G G I watched it burn … I watched it burn C C G G Ch: I would rock my soul … in the bosom of Abraham D7 D7 G G I would hold my life … in his saving grace C C G G I would walk a-a-all the way … from Boulder to Birmingham D7 D7 G G D7 If I thought I could see … I could see your face V3: __ Well, you really got me this time __ and the hardest part is knowing I'll sur-vive __ I have come to listen for the sound of the trucks as they move down Out on ninety fi-i-ive G (no D7) Pre-Ch: And pre-tend that it's the ocean __ __ coming down to wash me clean __ to wash me clean … Baby do you know what I mean __ Chorus Outro: Repeat last line, End on G Quarantunes Jam - 9 Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow Likely a Traditional tune, adapted and made famous by the Carter Family in the late 1920s Listen to their rendition here - This arrangement based on Roseanne Cash - on The List (2009) Standard time / Each chord = 4 beats Boomerang Pattern: Chord Progression: A A D D / A A E7 E7 A A D D / A E7 A A V1: Well, my heart is sad and _I_ am lonesome for the only one I love When shall we meet? Oh, no never, till we (meet) in heaven a-bove Ch: So bury me under-neath the willow, under the weeping willow tree So that he may know where _I_ am sleeping and per-(haps) he’ll weep for me V2: Well, he told me that he dearly loved me, oh, how could it be un-true? Un-til the angels softly whispered, “He will (prove) untrue to you” Chorus V3: Well, to-mor-row was to be our wedding day, oh my God where can he be? He’s out a-courting with another and no (longer) cares for me Chorus V4: Oh, bury me under the violets blue to prove my love to him Tell him that I would die to save him for his love I (never) could win Chorus, End on A Quarantunes