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Topic: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Lou'siana Townby Shady Wilbury



Sounds best fingerpicked to me.


Capo III




O[C]ne fine night, long ti[F]me ago, in L[G]ou’siana to[C]wn




T[C]wo fine men were pl[F]aying a show, with pe[G]ople gathered ro[C]und


T[C]he crowd, they all stood s[F]ingin’, as Ma[G]ury played gui[C]tar


C                     F                G       C


T[C]he music was their rea[F]son, Jim Cr[G]oce was the st[C]ar.






A[C]ll of these years la[F]ter, peo[G]ple sadly s[C]ay


“T[C]here’s “One Less Set of Fo[F]otsteps�i[G]n this world to[C]day.�


C                      F          G                C


S[C]ang a song about an “O[F]perator� , y[G]ou can keep the di[C]me





C                    F                 G                C     


A couple more s[F]ongs, an h[G]our’s passed, I believe it’s ti[C]me




C                F            G                   C   


P[C]eople started lea[F]vin’, the pl[G]ace had been quite fu[C]ll


C                F             G                   C


T[C]he awful thing th[F]at happened ne[G]xt, we remember st[C]ill






A[C]ll of these years la[F]ter, peo[G]ple sadly s[C]ay


“T[C]here’s “One Less Set of Fo[F]otsteps�i[G]n this world to[C]day.�


A[C]ll of these years la[F]ter, peo[G]ple sadly s[C]ay


“T[C]here’s “One Less Set of Fo[F]otsteps�i[G]n this world to[C]day.�



© ShadyWilbury 01/02/2009

***I have edited the post and added the title and author. Without these the formatting goes haywire which is why Russ and Phill could not see the song. I have also put the correct brackets on the soc and eoc. - Roger Guppy (Moderator)***

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

its more usual to post something with your topic smile

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Seems a bit too shady for my computer....?

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Roger nice catch,jim Croce was one of my favorites and these lyrics help us remember him nice job shady smile

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

hi shady great song nice easy play ,well done stay cool

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Nice song shadywilbury, I like Jim Croce. BTW, you like the Traveling Wilburys? Is that where you got your name? I like them also. I was just playing some wilburys yesterday.

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Well Done Shady
Jim Croce was a favorite of mine also. At least his music will live on. smile

Reading your song I get the impression you saw him live at a small venue. If so it must have been awesome.

Keep at it. smile

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8 Reply by ShadyWilbury (edited by ShadyWilbury 2009-02-18 12:33:05)

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getfiddle wrote:

Nice song shadywilbury, I like Jim Croce. BTW, you like the Traveling Wilburys? Is that where you got your name? I like them also. I was just playing some wilburys yesterday.

Indeed. smile Unfortunately, I never saw Jim live, but I love his music. He had a certain way with words, which few could ever hope to match, in my opinion. It was a great shame that he and Maury were on the same plane...

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

hi shady,

glad you managed to get this song up...eventually, and it was well worth waiting for!

to be honest, i've heard of jim croce but i dont remember hearing any of his songs...sorry.

i do like this though, a kind of lament on a similar vein to american pie and i hope it sounds as good when you play it!

the traveling wilburys are one of my favourite bands which get a lot of plays on my car CD

let us hear more of your stuff...and see it

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Hi Shady,

Nice song and a great tribute to a wonderful artist. Thank you,

Roger

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Hi Phill, Have a listen to Jim Croce on youtube. This is my favorite song by him. I'm sure you will recognize it.

Enjoy

Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce  1972


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_fg29zf0fw


Kenny

PS  Can I post this link here? If not please delete and I will repost in a different section.

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Hopefully I'll have a recording up on MySpace by tomorrow night, so I'll follow with a link. smile Thanks for the compliments on the song. Funny you should mention "American Pie", Phill, because when I try and sing this song to somebody to demonstrate it, I always end up singing that instead. http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/7581/moskingqa5.gif

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

hi shady, looking forward to your recording.

kenny, just followed your link, so if you can't do it, tough it's too late cos i got it followed it and damn well enjoyed it too! so thanks very much for that...now i have to go out and buy some jim croce, i don't like down loading or copying so shops here i come...sorry for using your post for chatting  shady...my favourite wilbury tracks are "tweeter and the monkey man" and "cool dry place"

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

An mp3 has just been uploaded to MySpace.

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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Hi ShadyWilbury
You've got a nice sound there. I did think the vocals were a bit weak in volume otherwise well done..
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Re: Lou'siana Town- Jim Croce fans, be sure to take a look

Thanks, Ark.

I'm working on the singing malarkey. smile It's going to be some time coming, I should think.

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