Biografia:
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician with two Grammy Awards to date who folds various forms of world music into his offerings. A self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, banjo and harmonica (among many other instruments)[2], Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his almost 50 year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms
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Outras músicas:
- 21St Century Gypsy Singing Lover Man
- Aint Nobodys Business
- Baby What You Want Me To Do
- Betty N Dupree
- Cakewalk Into Town
- Chevrolet
- Corinna
- Dhow Countries
- Ez Rider
- Fishing Blues
- Great Big Boat
- Im Goin Fishin
- Leavin Trunk
- Lovin In My Babys
- Mind Your Own Business
- Queen Bee
- Shady Grove
- She Knows How To Rock Me
- Six Days On The Road
- Strut
- Take A Giant Step
- The New Hula Blues
- Youre Gonna Need Somebody
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Artist: Taj Mahal
Band: Taj Mahal Trio
Song: Betty and Dupree
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAHXSZcmTyo (Live Recording)
Location: Legendary R’n’B Cruise-19, S.E. Caribbean, 27/10/12 to 03/11/12.
Tempo: 4/8
Style Cajun 12-Bar Blues (Slow finger plucked upwards)
Tuning: Open C
Chords: CGCGCe
C 000000 (also XX0000)
F/C XX0301
G5 X02023
INTRO:
N/C C N/C C (Accelerando strums)
“Gather round me. Every-body.”
N/C G (Low open string) X 12 C (Low open string)
“I’m gonna tell ya a story about Betty ’n’ Dupree.”
BRIDGE: Instrumental (short plucked chords upwards)
|C F/C C C|
|F/C F/C C C|
|G5 F/C C C| G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
VERSE 1: (Finger plucked on lowest strings)
C F/C C
Betty told Dupree - before, she want a diamond ring,
F/C C
I said, Betty told Dupree, she want a diamond ring.
G5 (Hold) F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Dupree told Betty: Baby, I'll buy you any-thing.
VERSE 2:
C F/C C
Dupree asked Betty: Baby, won't you be my wife,
F/C C
Dupree asked Betty: Baby, won't you be my wife,
G5
She said, "I'm yours, I'm yours, big Daddy,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Honey, for the rest o’ your life.”
VERSE 3:
C F/C C
Betty said Dupree, honey I’m goin’ throw you a natural Ball,
F/C C
Dupree said Betty, babe, I throw you a natural Ball.
G5
All the men dressed-up like zombies - ha,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
And the women, the women, walk right through the wall.
VERSE 4:
C F/C C
She cried out, on it’s highest peak, whoo! - whoo!
F/C C
She cried out from his highest peak,
G5
They were loving, loving, loving, loving, loving,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Loving, loving, loving, she could hardly even speak.”
INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE:
|C F/C C C|
|F/C F/C C C|
|G5 F/C C C| G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
VERSE 5:
C F/C C
Betty told Dupree, she want a diamond ring,
F/C C
Oh, Betty told Dupree, someone Sheriff, she want-ta diamond ring.
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Dupree told Betty, I'm gonna buy you any-thing.
VERSE 6:
C F/C C
Hear me holler, baby hear me moan,
F/C C
Hear me holler, whoa - hear me moan.
G5
Oh the way you loving’ me baby,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
I can’t stand to leave you alone.
VERSE 7:
C F/C C
Put your arms around me, like a circle around the Sun,
F/C
Put your loving’ arms around me,
C
Baby, oh baby like a circle around the Sun,
G5
Won't you love me, love me,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Love me, until the cows come home.
VERSE 8 & CODA:
C F/C C
Betty told Dupree before, she want a diamond ring,
F/C C
I said, Betty told Dupree, she want a diamond ring.
G5 F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Dupree told Betty: Baby, I'll buy you any-thing.
[End]
Notes.
1. I’ll annotate ‘Taj Mahal’s’ lead riffs, in a following TAB.
2. There are chord accents at the end of the first line in each verse, that sound not unlike
‘part C III-C III+part G5’ or ‘XXXX43-XXXX43+XXXX23’ but they have been omitted for clarity.
Band: Taj Mahal Trio
Song: Betty and Dupree
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAHXSZcmTyo (Live Recording)
Location: Legendary R’n’B Cruise-19, S.E. Caribbean, 27/10/12 to 03/11/12.
Tempo: 4/8
Style Cajun 12-Bar Blues (Slow finger plucked upwards)
Tuning: Open C
Chords: CGCGCe
C 000000 (also XX0000)
F/C XX0301
G5 X02023
INTRO:
N/C C N/C C (Accelerando strums)
“Gather round me. Every-body.”
N/C G (Low open string) X 12 C (Low open string)
“I’m gonna tell ya a story about Betty ’n’ Dupree.”
BRIDGE: Instrumental (short plucked chords upwards)
|C F/C C C|
|F/C F/C C C|
|G5 F/C C C| G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
VERSE 1: (Finger plucked on lowest strings)
C F/C C
Betty told Dupree - before, she want a diamond ring,
F/C C
I said, Betty told Dupree, she want a diamond ring.
G5 (Hold) F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Dupree told Betty: Baby, I'll buy you any-thing.
VERSE 2:
C F/C C
Dupree asked Betty: Baby, won't you be my wife,
F/C C
Dupree asked Betty: Baby, won't you be my wife,
G5
She said, "I'm yours, I'm yours, big Daddy,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Honey, for the rest o’ your life.”
VERSE 3:
C F/C C
Betty said Dupree, honey I’m goin’ throw you a natural Ball,
F/C C
Dupree said Betty, babe, I throw you a natural Ball.
G5
All the men dressed-up like zombies - ha,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
And the women, the women, walk right through the wall.
VERSE 4:
C F/C C
She cried out, on it’s highest peak, whoo! - whoo!
F/C C
She cried out from his highest peak,
G5
They were loving, loving, loving, loving, loving,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Loving, loving, loving, she could hardly even speak.”
INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE:
|C F/C C C|
|F/C F/C C C|
|G5 F/C C C| G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
VERSE 5:
C F/C C
Betty told Dupree, she want a diamond ring,
F/C C
Oh, Betty told Dupree, someone Sheriff, she want-ta diamond ring.
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Dupree told Betty, I'm gonna buy you any-thing.
VERSE 6:
C F/C C
Hear me holler, baby hear me moan,
F/C C
Hear me holler, whoa - hear me moan.
G5
Oh the way you loving’ me baby,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
I can’t stand to leave you alone.
VERSE 7:
C F/C C
Put your arms around me, like a circle around the Sun,
F/C
Put your loving’ arms around me,
C
Baby, oh baby like a circle around the Sun,
G5
Won't you love me, love me,
F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Love me, until the cows come home.
VERSE 8 & CODA:
C F/C C
Betty told Dupree before, she want a diamond ring,
F/C C
I said, Betty told Dupree, she want a diamond ring.
G5 F/C C G (Low open string) X 8 C (Low open string)
Dupree told Betty: Baby, I'll buy you any-thing.
[End]
Notes.
1. I’ll annotate ‘Taj Mahal’s’ lead riffs, in a following TAB.
2. There are chord accents at the end of the first line in each verse, that sound not unlike
‘part C III-C III+part G5’ or ‘XXXX43-XXXX43+XXXX23’ but they have been omitted for clarity.
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