I listened to this song for the first time today on Bill Roach's NS CBC weekend morning. It made me dance and smile and brought tears to my eyes. Thank you.
I just recorded the redwing black birds as they are flocking here now and brother in law posted your song to my facebook,I really loved your song and performance, excellent!!!
Hope Montgomery I don’t have the tab or know how to write or explain the chords but it’s capo on 2nd fret and I just slowed the video down on UA-cam and spent some time eventually figuring it out. Sorry, i wish I had a better understanding of musical theory! Hah
@@forrestayearst Thanks for looking into it! After asking, I found this tab on Mudcat.org: Capo 2: 1 005400 2 004000 3 000200 4 002000 5 040000 6 002200 7 020000 8 040200 Red-Winged Blackbird (3)Thought I (2)heard a (1)Red-winged (2)Black(3)bird Red-winged Blackbird (4)down (5)my (6)road Thought I heard a Red-winged Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird (6)down (7)my (3)road (3)He'll be (8)there (7)beside the (3)river (3)When winter (8)finally (7)breaks it's (6)bones (3)He'll be (8)king a(7)mong the (3)rushes (7)He'll be (3)master (6)of his (3)home I ended up changing a couple bits from what I watched in this video, but it's really close and a good start!
Mark Westberg. Awesome guitarist. Inspiring.
I listened to this song for the first time today on Bill Roach's NS CBC weekend morning. It made me dance and smile and brought tears to my eyes. Thank you.
Love the Song! I love red-winged blackbirds too!
I just love this song.
wow. Makes me feel so Canadian.
they’re down my road a week now, and i always think of this song. excellent tune.
this is so good !!
I just recorded the redwing black birds as they are flocking here now and brother in law posted your song to my facebook,I really loved your song and performance, excellent!!!
I sing this song every spring when the red wing blackbirds come back in central Ontario 😏
Awesome
Guitar too!
is it played in open G ?
Dadgad capo 2. Also sounds good in standard but capo 5 cfg. This version is dadgad capo 2
Can anyone tell me how that guitar is tuned?
bbeard6 I think he’s in DADGAD
@@forrestayearst Do you or anyone else here have the tab/a chord chart for how he's playing it? Would love to learn it in this tuning!
Hope Montgomery I don’t have the tab or know how to write or explain the chords but it’s capo on 2nd fret and I just slowed the video down on UA-cam and spent some time eventually figuring it out. Sorry, i wish I had a better understanding of musical theory! Hah
@@forrestayearst Thanks for looking into it! After asking, I found this tab on Mudcat.org:
Capo 2:
1 005400
2 004000
3 000200
4 002000
5 040000
6 002200
7 020000
8 040200
Red-Winged Blackbird
(3)Thought I (2)heard a (1)Red-winged (2)Black(3)bird
Red-winged Blackbird (4)down (5)my (6)road
Thought I heard a Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird (6)down (7)my (3)road
(3)He'll be (8)there (7)beside the (3)river
(3)When winter (8)finally (7)breaks it's (6)bones
(3)He'll be (8)king a(7)mong the (3)rushes
(7)He'll be (3)master (6)of his (3)home
I ended up changing a couple bits from what I watched in this video, but it's really close and a good start!
Hope Montgomery right on! What a great tune
Heard this on /mu/ one day and fell in love.