• Song:

    Camp Chase

  • Artist:

    Misc Traditional

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From: Bo.Parker@msfc.nasa.gov (Bo Parker)
Subject: TAB: Camp Chase

Greetings

Here's another flatpick arrangement of an old-time fiddle tune - "Camp
Chase." This one was composed by Solly Carpenter, a prisoner at Camp Chase,
a Civil War prison camp near Columbus, Ohio. Supposedly Carpenter won his
release by composing and playing this tune in a prison camp fiddler's
contest.

This is "crooked" tune - the A part is four measures repeated once, and the
B part is 10 measures(!), instead of the usual eight-measure grouping.
This, and a couple of oddly-placed triplets in the B part gives it kind of
a funky, unpredictable feel.

I've tabbed it and indicated the chords in G, but it's generally done in A,
so put your capo at the second fret.

|   |   |   | marks passage of quarter notes.

* 
* is a repeat symbol

__3__
|     is a triplet


TAB: Camp Chase (Solly Carpenter, arr. and TAB by Bo Parker,
Bo.Parker@msfc.nasa.gov)

Pick-up measure
  N/C         __3__     
  |   |   |   |    
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------0-2-4-|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|

Part A
                                                      _1___________________
  G                         C         G               | D       G   __3__
1 |   |   |   |   2 |   |   |   |   3 |   |   |   |   4 |   |   |   |    
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|
|-----0-------0---|-------0---------|-----------------|-------------------|
|*0-----0-2-0---0-|-----0---2-0---0-|-----------------|-----0-2-0--------*|
|*----------------|-0-2---------2---|-0---0-2-0-------|-0-2---------0-2-4*|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------3-2-3-|-------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|

_2________________
| D       G
8 |   |   |   |   
|-----------------|
|-------------0-1-|
|-----0-2-0-------|
|-0-2-------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|

Part B
  G                                   D   __3__
9 |   |   |   |  10 |   |   |   |  11 |   |     |   |  12 |   |   |   |   
|-----0-2-3-------|-----3-0---------|-----0h2h3-5-------|-----5-2---------|
|-3-----------3---|-0-------3-1-0-3-|-3-------------3---|---------3-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|---0---------------|-5---------5-4-5-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|

  G                     __3__           C       G                 C
13|   |   |   |  14 |   |     |   |  15 |   |   |   |  16 |   |   |   |   
|---3---------3---|-----3p2p0---------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-3-----3-0-------|-3---------3-1-0---|-----1-------0---|-----0-----------|
|-----------------|-----------------0-|---0---0---0-----|-0-2---0-2-0---0-|
|-----------------|-------------------|-2-------0-------|-------------2---|
|-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|

  G                 D       G
17|   |   |   |  18 |   |   |   |   
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----0-2-0-------|
|-0---0-2-0-------|-0-2-------------|
|-----------3-2-3-|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|


Enjoy

As always, if you find mistakes or have any questions or comments, email me
at Bo.Parker@msfc.nasa.gov.


-Bo Parker
Bo.Parker@msfc.nasa.gov (<- MAIL to this address. 
                            REPLIES to this address will probably bounce.)

"I poked at it with a stick"
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