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Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now

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Johnm:
Hi Mark,
Could you post an mp3 of your recorded version?  We use them to figure out lyrics, why not chord changes?
All best,
Johnm

Rivers:
Will do Mr M, when I get home tonight. I'll post Leon Redbone's B flat version.
Cooder's version on 'Jazz' is in open tuning  :o , no mean feat and a brlliant rendition but I want to play it in standard tuning.

Richard:
Intrigued, I found a version by Van H on the web and it sounds to me very much like the  old jazz standard Dr Jazz as the breaks and everything fit and feel it.

I can always post a Dr J mp3 or ask someone for the chords if you want, over to you..

Rivers:
The MP3 came out too big to upload, will have to get another MP3 maker. In the meantime I figured out this arrangement with some clues from elsewhere on the web as to structure. It's really cool to combine fingerpicking and swing chord vamping, and it moves around a lot with some satisfying changes.

Please feel free to pitch in with suggestions, it's a work in progress.

Chords in brackets are optional, for variation.
Passing chords indicated with a dash, E9?- C#o - D6
Some chords:

A6? :?5x?4?6?5?x

A7? :?5?x?5?6?5x

A/C#:?9?x?7?9?x?x (A with C# in the bass)

A#o :?6?x?5?6?x?x

Bm7 :?7?x?7?7?7?x

B7? :?x2?1?2?0?2
? 7?x?7?8?7?x

B9? :?x?2?1?2?2?2
? 7?6?7?6?x?x

Bo? :?8?x?7?8?x?x

C#7 :?x?4?3?42?x

D6? :?x?5?4?4?3?x

D#o :?x?6?7?5?7?x

E6? :?x?7?6?6?x?x

E7? :?x?7?675?x

E+#5:?0?3?2?11?0?(not sure what this chord is, E with a 5th sharped?)
? 0?7?6?55?0

E9? :?x?7?67?7x

F#7 :?x?9?8?97?x
 2?x?2?32?x

F#m7:?2x?2?2?2x

intro vamp: A6? A#o? Bm7? E9? /? A6? A#o? Bm7? E+
?
A?                   C#7?          F#7        ?
In the town of Louisville, lived a man named Big Bad Bill

B9?      B7?             B9          B7?     B9 ?     E?                 E+
Let me tell you, he sure was tough, and he certainly did strut his stuff

A6                    ?C#7                 ? F#7
He had folks all scared to death, when he walked by they held their breath

B9? B7? B9? B7? B9 E?E+
He was a fightin' man sure e-nough

Bm7?- A/C#?Bo? A#o -? B7? B9?B7  E? ? (E+)
Bill took himself a wife,? now he leads a different life


A6? A#o ? E9 - D#6 - E6 - A6 - A#o - Bm7 (A/C#)
Big bad Bill is Sweet William?now

D6?D#o?C#7
Married life has changed him somehow;

D6? D#o
He's the man they all used to fear,

?A6?- F#9 - F#7 - A#o -
Now the people call him sweet papa Willie dear

B9? B7?B9? B7
Stronger than Samson I declare,

?E7?E+#5
'Til a brown skinned mama bobbed his hair

A6? A#o ?E9 - D#6 - E6 - A6? A7
Big bad Bill don't?fight?any? more

D6?(D#o)?C#7? (F#m7) 
Now he does the dishes and he mops up the floor

D6? D#o
Well he used to go out, jus' lookin' for a fight,

A6?- F#9 - ?F#7 - A/C# -
Now he's got to see his mama every night

Bm7?E7 - D#6 - E6 - A6? (- A#o?- Bm7?- E9....)
Big Bad Bill is Sweet William?now.

Richard:
Might be a touch late but I have the chords to thisl tune winging themselves to me from Germany of all places ::) and I'll post 'em when they arrive.

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