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Francis+Key - Star+spangled+banner

From: legg@eemips.tamu.edu (James D. Legg)


This is the closest I've been able to come to figuring out the Star
Spangled Banner.  If you make any corrections, please let me know.
Enjoy!

                          "Star-Spangled Banner"
                           by Frances Scott Key
     
     
   let all notes ring     
     
     E
|----------0------------------------|-----4--2-0-----------------------------|
|-0------0-----------7/\7-5---------|------------4-----2-4-5--5--------------|
|--1---1--------------------1-3-4---|-4-4-----------------------4-1----------|
|---2-------------------------------|-------------------------------2--------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
                  full bend                         * repeat (play twice)

|-2-2-4-5-7--7------5-4-2-4-5--5----|-5-4----2-0-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|------------4--------2-4-5--------------|
|-----------------------------------|---------------------------1-3-4--------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|


|-----------------2--5-4-2----------|---------2-4-5-7------0-2----5-2--------|
|---5-5-5\4-2-2-2----------5-5\4----|-----5-----------------------------5----|
|-4---------------------------------|-4-4------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
       slide               slide





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From: indigo@cats.ucsc.edu (Adam Schneider)
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Subject: Re: REQ: Star Spangled Banner
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I have just a couple corrections...


>|-2-2-4-5-7--7------5-4-2-4-5--5----|-5-4----2-0-----------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|------------4--------2-4-5--------------|
>|-----------------------------------|---------------------------1-3-4--------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
  ^^^ These 2's should be 4's.

>|-----------------2--5-4-2----------|---------2-4-5-7------0-2----5-2--------|
>|---5-5-5\4-2-2-2----------5-5\4----|-----5-----------------------------5----|
>|-4---------------------------------|-4-4------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
>|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
                       There should be a 4 between 2 and 5 here.^^^

(I assume that "full bend" in the first line means you bend it so that it
sounds two frets higher; if that's the case, then that's fine.)


Here's some chords that I scraped together (in C, not E):

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (Francis Scott Key)
--------------------------------------------
[I suspect that some of these chords are very subject to improvisation;
 in fact, if you wanted to, you could pretty much play a different chord
 for each note, by playing C under C, E, or G, F under F, A, or C, and so
 on, sort of like I did for the very last line.  So I just wrote down my
 own little interpretation.]
 
   C       G   C          Am        D7 G
Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light
        C          G      F      C          G    C
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming
G           C           G      C                 Am  D7   G
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
         C           G       F       C      G  C
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming
        C            G                Dm          F
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air
     C                 G     F        C    Am  D7    G
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
   C              F             Dm         Gsus G
Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wa - ave
         C G  C  F   C            Am      G   C
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave


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Adam Schneider               indigo@ucscb.ucsc.edu              U.C. Santa Cruz
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