Sunday 6 June 2021

The Foggy Dew - By the Vagabonds - Tutorial by Jasper Kaye

Jasper Kaye uploaded a tutorial video to the song The Foggy Dew as played by Ye Vagabonds. This is not the well known Song!

 

First the song, sung and played by Jasper 

And here's his tutorial video:

 

Here's a solo version by Brian Mac Gloinn of Ye Vagabonds where you can hear the
bouzouki very well:


Here are the lyrics with some chords I figured out, don't know, if they are exactly the same as Ye Vagabond's. They differ a bit from Jasper's chords. There is always more than one way to accompany a song ;-)

When [D]I was [G/A]a [D/F#]bachelor [D]young [G/A]and [D/F#]bold
I [Bm]followed the [G]roving [D]tra[A]de
The [D5]only [A/E]thing that I [D/F#]ever done [G5]wrong {soh}(Basslauf!){eoh}
I [Bm]courted a hand[G]some [D]maid

I wooed her all the summertime
And part of the winter too
The only thing I ever done wrong
Was to keep off the foggy dew

'Twas on one night about twelve o'clock
As I lay fast asleep
There came this maid to my bedside
And bitterly she did weep

She wept, she moaned, she tore her hair
And she cried "what shall I do?"
So I rolled her into bed
And covered up her head
For to keep off the foggy dew

Well all the first part all that night
And we did sport and play
And all the latter part of that night
Snug in my arms she lay
 
And when the broad daylight appeared
She cried "I am undone!"
Well hold your tongue
My pretty young girl
For the foggy dew has gone

Well I never told nobody her name
And its damned be if I do
But it's often times that i think on that night
That I kept off the foggy dew

Chords could be:

D: 2,0,0,0
G/A: 2,5,0,0
D/F#: 2,4,0,0
Bm: 4,4,0,0
G: 0,0,2,0 or 4,5,0,0
A: 2,2,0,2 or 2,2,0,0
D5: x,0,0,0
A/E: x,2,0,2
D/F#: x,4,0,0
G5: x,5,5,0
Bm: 4,4,0,0
G: 0,0,2,0 or 4,5,0,0
D: 2,4,0,0 or 7,0,0,0

2 comments:

Unknown said...

This is just what i was looking for .Thanks so much. Is this the usual GDAE tuning?

Irish Bouzouki said...

It is the usual GDAD tuning. You'll find only GDAD tabs on my blog. I think most Irish Bouzouki players use this tuning because it brings out the droniness (is this the correct word?) of the instrument.