Stan Rogers – Watching The Apples Grow (Guitar Tab)

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## This is "Watching the Apples Grow" from Stan Rogers' really excellent album Fogarty's Cove. There's some very good backup guitar which I would really appreciate someone tabbing. It's probably Curly Boy Stubbs doing it, with Stan just playing rhythm, but I could be wrong. capo wasn't there, so the REAL chords (if you don't have a capo) would be a whole step up, e.g. in the first verse: D,G,D,Bm,G,D C F It's early up, Ontario farm, chicken crow for day C Am I wish I grew Annapolis apples up above Fundy's Bay F C Oh it seems so far away C F On the ridge above Acadia's town to the valley down below C Am The evening shadow falls upon the family listening to the radio F C And watching the apples grow Chorus: F C F C Down on the farm, back among the family, away from Ontario F C Am Hear the ladies singing to their men, dancing it heel and toe F C And watching the apples grow [There's a fiddle solo at this point. If anyone would like to ] [transcribe it, that'd be really cool. I mean transcribe it for ] [fiddle, I could probably get it for guitar, with a lot of trouble. ] C F Ontario, y'know I've seen a place I'd rather be C Am Your scummy lakes and city of Toronto don't do a damn thing for me F C I'd rather live by the sea C F I've watched the V's of geese go by, the foxfoot in the snow C Am I've climbed the ridge of Gaspereaux Mt., looking to the valley below F C And watching the apples grow. Chorus

Guitar Solo:
   C
   v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .   v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .
e----------3---3-3-----------------|-----3-------------------------0---|e
B-/5--------------\3---1-------1-1-|/5------\3---1-------1-1-1---------|B
G--------------------------2-------|-----------------2-----------------|G
D----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|D
A----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|A
E----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|E

   F               C                                 Am      F
   v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .   v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .
e--1---1-1-1-0-----0---0-0-0-------|-------------------------1---------|e
B--------------3-------------3-1---|-1---1-1-1-0-----------------------|B
G----------------------------------|-----------------2-----------------|G
D----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|D
A----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|A
E----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|E

   C
   v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .
e--0-1-0----------------------------|e
B--------3-1-0---0-1----------------|B
G--------------2--------------------|G
D-----------------------------------|D
A-----------------------------------|A
E-----------------------------------|E

Repeat chorus twice, then wrap it up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Notes on the Solo: If anyone knows who's playing this, please tell me! It's played quick & snappy- keeps you on your toes! When he slides from/to a note it's always started on a whole step (two frets) above/below, whichever's appropriate. The backup Am and F following it are single strums only (this goes for the rest of the song, too). There are probably some grace notes & stuff which I didn't get, 'cause this is my first attempt at transcribing anything. Nevertheless, I think it's pretty good. Notes on the Song: Great song! The rhythm is somewhat bluegrassy, a fast boom-chicka (bass note - strum chord down/up). The only real trouble I had was figuring out where the chord switch was on the last line of each verse. There's a run from F to C which I play something like this: F C v . . . v . . . v . . . v . . .

|-1---------------------------0---|
|-1---------------------------1---|
|-2---------------------------0---|
|-3-------3---2---0---2-------2---|
|-3-----------------------3---3---|
|---------------------------------|

So I'm not entirely sure where the actual switch is, but I think it's right the way I finally put it. Notes on the Tablature: 'v' is the beat. '. . .' are the notes in-between, though the middle '.' could be considered a lighter downbeat. '/' is a slide up the note following. '\' is a slide down to the note following. Please send any comments, questions, queries, criticisms, about this transcription to ME because Stan Rogers ain't around no more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Peter Keller [[email protected]]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Wakefield, Rhode Island~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!MORE BLUEGRASS!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~