WORRIED MAN BLUES
Beginner BA1 - Unit 1 (Practice) Song-Melody
Traditional American
Accordion Notation
Although you may be a "beginner" on the button accordion, you already know lots of tunes, perhaps including Worried Man Blues. If so, you already have a sense of how long to hold each treble note, and where to put the emphasis. You just need to get use to it on the button accordion.
Either row: Buttons 5 to 8*
(Place first finger at button 5 and little finger at 8, covering all the notes without having to change your finger positions.) |
Chorus:
5 5 5 5 5* 6 7* 7 7 7 7* 6
It takes a wor-ried man to sing a wor-ried song
6 5* 5* 5* 6* 6 5* 6 7* 6 5* 5
It takes a wor-ried man to sing a wor-ried song
5 5 5 5 5* 6 7* 7 7 7 7* 6
It takes a wor-ried man to sing a wor-ried song.
6 6* 6 7* 6 6 7* 8* 7 7* 6
I’m wor-ried now, but I won’t be wor-ried long
For most (though not all) performances, the Verses follow the notation give above for the Chorus.
5 5 5 5 5* 6 7* 7 7 7 7* 6
It takes a wor-ried man to sing a wor-ried song
6 5* 5* 5* 6* 6 5* 6 7* 6 5* 5
It takes a wor-ried man to sing a wor-ried song
5 5 5 5 5* 6 7* 7 7 7 7* 6
It takes a wor-ried man to sing a wor-ried song.
6 6* 6 7* 6 6 7* 8* 7 7* 6
I’m wor-ried now, but I won’t be wor-ried long
For most (though not all) performances, the Verses follow the notation give above for the Chorus.
Embedded youTube VIDEOS
Ten videos in keys of: A=3 C=1 D=1 G=5
Key: A
Group: Stanley Brothers Posted by: drwierd |
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Key: A
Group: Nashville Jam Posted by: Music City Roots |
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Key: A
Singers: Jim and Jesse McReynolds Posted by: Edmund StAustell |
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Key: C
Singer: Carl Martin ? Posted by: Carl Martin |
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Key: D
Group: The Kingston Trio Posted by: The Kingston Trio - Topic In some of the choruses, the Trio changes the rhythm a bit. |
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Key: G
Singer: Lukas Simpson Posted by Lukas Simpson |
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Key: G
Group: Papa Pider's Jazz Band Posted by: Papa Pider's Jazz Band - Topic |
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Key: G
Singer: Dean Barber Posted by: Dean Barber |
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Key: G
Performers: Raymond Crooke and Lew Dite Posted by: raymondcrooke Well done. |
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Key: G
Performers: Michael & Dianne Porter Posted by: Dianne Porter |
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BACKGROUND MATERIALS, INFORMATION & LINKS
LYRICS Chorus
Verses: |
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song It takes a worried man to sing a worried song I’m worried now but I won’t be worried long I went across the river and I laid down to sleep When I woke up, there were shackles on my feet Twenty one links of chain around my leg And on each link, the initials of my name I asked the judge what’s gonna be my fine Twenty one years on the Rocky Mountain Line If anyone should ask you who composed this song Say it was me and I sing it all day long |
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