| Song Name: | Swingin Shepherd Blues | By: | Moe Koffman |
| Posted By: | harmusman | Difficulty: | Any |
| Key: | Bb | Genre: | Jazz |
| Harp Type: | Chromatic | ||
| Created: | 2011-06-03 16:06:07 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
| Song: | Swingin�Shepherd Blues.
Words added by Rhoda Roberts & Kenny Jacobs. Recorded by many of music�s big names, first titled as Blues a la Canadiane Renamed and recorded as Swingin�Shepherd Blues by Moe Koffman 1957. Later with words, sung by Ella Fitzgerald and in more recent times by Natalie Cole hear and see them on youtube.com Moderate swing Key Bb, tabbed for chromatic Harmonica in C 6< 7 -7< -9 -9 -7< 6< 7 -7< 1. A � long a //:moun-tain pass there is a/ 2. And down the//:moun-tain pass there lives a/ -9 -9 -7< 6< 7 -7< Patch of grass where--- the/ Pret- ty lass who�s wait-in/ -9 -9 -7< 6< 7 6< 7<~~ Swing-in shep-herd plays his tune/ For the moon to shine a-bove, / ~~ -7< -9< -7< -10< -9< -9< -7< -- his/sheep nev- er stray,- Danc-in�/ -- she/dress-es with care,- Braid-in/ -10< -9< 9< -7< 6< -5< All day till they see the/ Her hair for her one and/ -5-3< -5-3< -5< 6 -6~~~~ 7 -7< -8< -7 Pale�-and�- yel- low moon/-- and-- then he On ly- swing-in� love/-- and she knows he�ll 9< 9< -7< 6< 5< 6< Leads his flock and home-ward/ Nev-�er roam be-cause she / 9< 9< -7< 6< 5< 6< -7< 7< 7< 7 -6< They all rock to � the/tune of the swing-in�/ Waits at home for- the/tune of the swing-in�/ 6< 5< -5 -3< ~~~~ Shep---herd blues--// Shep---herd blues--// Chorus -5 -6 -7< -6 Come home /shep-herd, / -5 -6 -7< -6 7< play those haunting/trills/ 7< 7 8< -7< -5 6 -7< -6 Come home /shep-herd, /let it ech-o/ 7< 7 -6~~~ 7 -10 -9 Through the hills,- The/swing-in�/ -10~~ -9 -7< -7< 7 -7<~~~~~~~ shep--- herd---- /blues / :// Yours Harmusman |
