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Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 27 Apr 2006 7:37 pm

Can any of you Western swingers help
me out with the progression on this
old Tex Williams tune .

Thanks
Hich

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 27 Apr 2006 8:13 pm

Key of C : C C C C C C C7 C7 F F#dim. C A D D G G C C C C C C C7 C7 F F#dim C A D G C C. Each chord symble receives 4 beats. Hope this helps. Jody.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 28 Apr 2006 2:53 am

In numbers, the intro is

4, 4#dim, 1, 6, 2, 5, 1

We hosted a SG Hall of Fame fundraising show two years ago and our lead picker was Ray Riggs, who had worked for Tex Williams. Herby Wallace was on the show and did this song but before he started he commented "I better get this right with Ray Riggs here". Another side note, I posted a couple of songs from Ray's guitar instrumental album on the forum about a week ago. He is a super picker. Here's the link http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum10/HTML/201446.html <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Jack Stoner on 28 April 2006 at 03:55 AM.]</p></FONT>

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 28 Apr 2006 4:17 am

Jody & Jack

Thanks for all the help !
Its a grate swing tune ! &
Thanks for the side note Jack ! you just
reminded me , My old friend Bob McCollum
played bass for Tex back in the 40's and I have
a gig with Bob on the 30th - Bob is some were in
his 80's - Maybe these guys ( Ray Rigg ) know
each other -

Thanks Again
Hick

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 28 Apr 2006 5:33 am

Ray was probably later as I'd say he is "60ish". But, Ray also worked for Red Foley, probably around the same time in his career.

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 28 Apr 2006 6:11 pm

Jack
Bob McCollum was over today and I
ask him if he knew Ray Riggs ! He said
that he didn't ! But what surprised me was
the stories he told about Ralph Moony ! I ask
if he would write it all down and shear them
here on the Forum .

That would be fun !! A time warp for sure .

Ralph ! if you read this ! Bob says howdy !
you may have to go back to the 40's to
remember this guy , something about joining
the union ( musicians )

Hick

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 29 Apr 2006 7:48 am

Those chord look right.
I used to play this in Paris reguarly.
Fun tune.

Coincidentally 2 days ago I put it on a cd for our singer, in hopes he will try it.

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 29 Apr 2006 8:30 am

David L
Ya ! Jodys cords do work good ,
Have you tried using the 6 minor ? in
place of the 7th that Jody listed , off the
1 !

1 1 1 1 1 1 6m 6m 4 4#dim etc.

maybe that would be wrong but the flavor seem
OK !

Hick

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 29 Apr 2006 10:57 am

Bob, Obviouisly Ray was with Tex at a later time.

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 30 Apr 2006 9:08 pm

Hi Bob, I will check out the 6minor. Sounds interesting. Jody.

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 1 May 2006 5:33 am

Hay Jody
I'm not sure I said the above correctly ,
But there seems to be a nice cord flow on
the steel with the minor passing in the progression
not sure this would work for the back up .

Thanks again for your help
Hick

William Steward · Post by **William Steward** » 3 May 2006 4:44 am

As with many standard tunes this one has a verse that is never played....I found a sheet music version if anyone is ineterested (email me for a PDF version).
"I keep dreamin' of my mammy and my pappy in the wintertime gloom etc etc.." (Jerry Livingstone, Abner Silver,Mitchel Parish -1938). According to the sheet Fats Waller recorded it in 1938 (Victor #25762) before Bob Wills in 1946...etc.

Bob Hickish · Post by **Bob Hickish** » 3 May 2006 9:07 am

Thanks Bill
I would love a coppy !
check your eMail - I removed address from the
Forum list to eliminate some eMail scavengers !
so far so good !

Hick

William Steward · Post by **William Steward** » 3 May 2006 7:48 pm

The file is in the mail...if anyone is interested in Fats' version check it out..he doesn't sing the intro verse either. http://www.museeq.com/ram/VIC09886.ram
Sounds like some lap steel guitar in the beginning!

Russ Wever · Post by **Russ Wever** » 3 May 2006 9:19 pm

Very interesting to hear the Fats Waller rendition.

Some considerable differences in the chord changes from the way western swing bands generally play it, notably in the third line of each half of the tune.

Thanks, Wil, for posting that link.

~Russ

Dan Beller-McKenna · Post by **Dan Beller-McKenna** » 4 May 2006 8:00 am

Wha' thu'... ?????

Waller with Steel? Something seems fishy: why does the steel disappear after the into?

Great new way to think of the song.

Dan

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Dan Beller-McKenna
Durham, NH