Anji

(Paul Simon version)

Music:  Davy Graham

Tabbed by: Dick Kaulfuss

 

READ the notes at the end of this. I've used the Dick Kaulfuss tab because he took the time to make the notes which help this song fall into place.  Learn each part, then put them together and this is turns out to be an unbelievably easy instrumental!  By the way, "The Work Song" (see) would have been known to anyone in the 1960s, as it had been a hit covered my quite a few famous singers in the 1950s.  Incidentally, Robert Minato hisself emailed me to tell me that he is NOT the tabber for this version, Dick Kaulfuss is (Robert just posted it to the group).  He's been trying to correct this injustice for years.  So, here 'tis.  Stand-up guy!

 

In general, the piece is a rondo and goes:  A theme / B theme (Am with added 4 with the pinky) / A theme / C theme (6ths w/ 3 10 on low E) / A theme / D theme ("The Work Song") / A theme / B theme / A theme / E theme (extended 6ths) / A theme / B theme / A theme / Outro [with variations on any given repeated theme]

 

PART A (4/4)

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PART B (4/4)

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                                  (2/4)

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Play 4 measures of Part A into Part C1.

 

 

PART C1

1/4       3/4                       4/4

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5/4

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Play 4 bars of A into D

 

PART D "The Work Song" (4/4)

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Play Part A ad lib for several measures

 

Then repeat Part C2

 

PART C2 (4/4)

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Repeat Part A ad lib to ending

 

ENDING                                 ritardando ...

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NOTES AND COMMENTS

 

Bert Jansch is probably best known as a member of Pentangle, the legendary

British acoustic folk-blues-jazz group.  He and John Renbourn (the other

guitar in Pentangle) developed picking styles so complex that they became

known as "folk baroque".  Angie appears on Bert's first solo album, which

was originally released on Transatlantic records.  I have the American

release, on Vanguard VSD-79212, called "Lucky Thirteen".

 

Bert was highly influential in the early British folk scene.  Donovan Leitch

was so in awe of him that there are songs called "Bert's Blues" and "House

of Jansch" on early Donovan albums.  It is not clear whether Paul Simon

learned Angie from Bert or from Dave Graham, although it *is* known that

Simon was in England after the recording of Simon and Garfunkel's first

album (and before the electrification of "The Sounds Of Silence").

 

Some differences in Simon's version: I believe Paul uses three-note chords

in Part C1 rather than two-note ones.  Something like:

 

PART C1 (Paul Simon style)

1/4       3/4                       4/4

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-----2---p-0---2-p-0-------2-------|-2---------------------------2---p---

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and so forth.  Also, his picking on the B string in Part A seems less

intricate and more fluid, e.g. the first measure goes something like:

 

PART A (4/4)

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As far as Part D goes, it is not widely known that this is actually a quote

from another song, called The Work Song.  I have this on GNP-Crescendo #86,

"There's A Meetin' Here Tonight" by Joe & Eddie.  The first verse and chorus

lyrics are:

 

      Breakin' up big rocks on the chain gang,

      Breakin' rocks and soothin' my time.

      Breakin' up big rocks on the chain gang,

      Oh Lord I committed a crime.

      Hold it steady right there while I hit it

      <HUH> I reckon that ought to get it.

      Been workin', I been workin',

      And I still got so terrible long to go.

 

I highly recommend digging out this obscure gem and listening to it for

a deeper understanding of the possibilities inherent in Part D.  It's

attributed to Nate Adderly & Oscar Brown Jr., so really Angie ought to have

their names on it as well.

 

I've always been fond of Angie because it was the first song I learned to

play on the guitar.  Yeah, I know.  I was too young and stupid to know any

better ... :-)

 

Oh yes, if you have big hands, it's possible to fret the bass string with your

thumb (wrapped around the neck).  Personally, I only do this for the F.

 

Anji (another PS arrangement?)

~ == hammer or pull-off, as appropriate

^ == bend   

# == hit-and-mute sort of chord strum

 

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This is the basic riff; sometimes he throws in an E off the open high string.

 

Some of the variations he does are:

 

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                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                        (repeat once or twice, adding high open E's perhaps)

 

 

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