Death Bells Blues

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by Tom Dickson

whose other songs are

Labor Blues Worry Blues Happy Blues

This song is in the key of C capoed perhaps at 2, i can't remember. the song starts on a G-shape with the 1st and 6th strings fretted at the 8th fret - very unusual - then quickly goes to the same shape at the 5th before going to a conventional C chord. i thinm=k all this fits into one bar! it';s hard to play but sounds great. the next bar is similar. i'm less sure of what he's doing here but he starts on the same G at the 8th fret (some might call this G at 7 but i don't think of it like that) then i think he goes to an A7 shape at the 5th before quickly landing his pinky on the long a note, back on 8th fret. but he takes up a C-chord shape here with the pinky down. then takes it from here down so that the pinky is on the 5th fret, them 3rd both on the high E string. from hear he ends on an f-chord. from here he goes to C. when i play this i usually put my forefinger on the e string 1st fret and middle finger on the b string fouth fret. these are accessible from a conventional C shape and this is possibly where Tom Dickson finds them but i can't do this easily. it's really fun putting this song together as it goes at a hell of a pace. the bass is mostly an alternating bass but there are some nice variations to this. in the verses to the song, they are different from the intro in that they are a bett less frenetic. they start on the G at 8th fret and ascend in a similar way to the intro and he goes back to the G at 8th on all but one verse, ithink it's the one where he sings "my mama's dead, my papa's 'cross the sea" where he just stays put at C before commencing as usual.

thi si s a quick stab but in time i'm sure the wiki will neaten these things out for lots of songs. i've read on the weenie forum that frankie does a mean version of this so no doubt he can steer things in the right direction.