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Uncle+Tupelo - Moonshiner

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 96 17:35:34 -0500
From: Jim 


Moonshiner
by Uncle Tupelo
Transcribed by John Erlinger (tardis@tetranet.net)

Traditional, arranged by Farrar/Tweedy (Warner-Tamerlane Pub./Feedhorn Songs
)
>From the Rockville Records album "March 16-20 1992" (ROCK6090-2)


This is my favorite song by one of my favorite bands.  There are two 
guitars in the song and two ways to play it:


Play a harmonica in the key of "C" and strum along with the chords
throwing in plenty of suspended chords:
   
   Am/G   F/G    C/G                           G/B     G/C  G/D

|--3------3------3----------------------3------3-------3----3--------|
|--1------1------1----------------------1------0-----0-1--1/3--------|
|--2------2------0----p--0---p--0---p---0------0-------0----0--------|
|--2------3------2---0-2----0-2----0-2--2------0-------0----0--------|
|--0------X------3----------------------3------2-------2----2--------|
|--0------X------X----------------------X------3-------3----3--------|


  Am/G  F/G     C/G
I am a      moo....
                   G/B  G/C  G/D
For seventeen ...
      Am/G     F/G     C/G
And I spent ...
               G/B  G/C  G/D
On whiskey ....


   F    G/B                       C/G       F

|--1----3-------------------------3---------1--1--0------------------|
|--1----0---0--1--3--5--3--1--0---1----p----1--------3--1--3--1--0---|
|--2----0-------------------------0---0-2---2------------------------|
|--3----0-------------------------2---------3------------------------|
|--3----2-------------------------3---------3------------------------|
|--1----3-------------------------X---------1------------------------|


      F          G/B
And I go to ...
    C/G       F
And set up ....




Here's the version I like to play:

(capo 5th fret)

    Em/D  C/D   G/D             D

A---X-----X-----X---------X-----2---------2---------2-------------|
E---3-----3-----3----p----3-----3----p----3----p----3-------------|
C---0-----0-----0---0-2---0-----2---0-2---2---0-2---2-------------|
G---2-----2-----0---------0-----0---------0---------0-------------|
D---2-----3-----2---------2-----0---------0---------0-------------|
A---0-----0-----3---------3-----X---------X---------X-------------|


  Em/D  C/D     G/D
I am a      moo....
                   D
For seventeen ...
      Em/D     C/D     G/D
And I spent ...
               D
On whiskey ...


      C          D
And I go to so...
    G         C
And set up ...
   
If whiskey don't ....



There's a incredible live version of "Moonshiner" by the Tupes on 
"Live From The Mountain Stage Vol. 7" on Blue Plate Records.

More Uncle Tupelo stuff including transcriptions:
http://www.webcom.com/~gumbo/uncle-tupelo.html