Chords for Peggy O / The Grateful Dead / Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ _ _ What's going on guitar players?
_ [B] I've got a lesson for you on how to play the song Peggy
Oh, which was a popular folk song in the 60s [G#] and the version
I'm doing is actually one that was done [B] live quite frequently by the [F] Grateful Dead in concert
[Em] It has some great
[F] Soaring melodic solos by Jerry Garcia and just a really cool tune very simple song to play
There's only four chords
[C#] The song is in the key of A.
You'll need a capo on fret number two and
There's four [E] chords.
We have a G G [A] major
_ We _
_ [Fm] [F#m] have an E minor
We _ [G]
[C#m] have a B minor and [G] a [D] C major _
there's _ [N] those four chords and _ I
Will point out in my chord [F] chart over here how to play as we go through the whole song
Just to note on some chord [G#] embellishments to make a [F#] song sound interesting [G#m] on my [D#] C major
I do a hammer on with my middle [D] finger
To _ _ [B] make it kind of sound [N] interesting and also on the G chord.
I do some hammer-ons with my
Fifth and [G] sixth strings.
Those are the fast [B] strings pointed up by your nose here _ [Fm] and
I kind of move those guys.
I hammer them on [E] and off once in a [A] while and [B] _ [A] _ _ [F#] that just kind of adds a
[F] Suggestion of a little bit of bass movement make the [N] song again sound kind of interesting.
So we've got our capo
We've got our four chords.
We've got a few cool
Embellishments, let's go through a full playthrough of the song right now.
Here we go
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ We _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] march down to [A] Fenario
_ We _ _ [F#] march down [C#m] to Fenario
_ _ [D] Our captain [A] fell in love with a lady [F#m] like a dove and [A] he called her [D] by name
Pretty [A] Peggy O _ _
_ _ Would _ you [D] marry me
Pretty [A] Peggy O
Would you [F#m] marry me?
[C#m] Pretty Peggy O
[D] If you [A] would marry me
I'd set [F#] your cities free
[F#m] _
_ _ [A] [D] Free all the ladies in [A] the area.
I _ _ _ _ _
[D] Would marry you
_ [A] sweet William O _
_ I [F#] would marry [C#m] you
sweet William O
I [D] [A] would marry you
But your [F#] guineas are too [F#m] few
_ [A] And I hear [D] my mama _
[A] Would be angry O
What _ _ _ _ would [D] your mama think?
_ [A] Pretty Peggy O
What would [F#] your mama think?
[C#m]
Pretty Peggy O
[D] What would [A] your mama think if [E] she heard [F#] my guineas cling?
_ [A] saw me [D] marching ahead [A] of [D] my
[A] soldiers O
Come _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [D] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ a-steppin' [D] down the stairs
_ [A] Pretty Peggy O
Come a-steppin' [F#m] down the stairs
[C#m] Pretty Peggy O
[D] Come a-steppin' [A] down the stairs
[C#m] Comin' back [F#m] your yellow hair
Bid [A] a [D] last farewell
To [A] your William O
And _ _ _ _ if ever [D] I return
_ [A] Pretty Peggy O _
_ If ever [F#m] I return
[C#m] Pretty Peggy O
[D] If ever [A] I return all your cities [F#m] I will burn
_ _ [A] Destroy [D] all the ladies in [A] the area O
Sweet _ _ _ _ _ [D] William he is dead
Pretty [A] Peggy O
_ Sweet William [F#m] he is dead [C#m] Pretty Peggy O
_ [D] Sweet William [A] he is dead and he died [F#m] for a maid
And [A] he's [D] buried in Louisiana [A] Country O _ _ _
_ _ _ We [D] marched out _ [A] to Fanario
_ _ We [F#m] marched out [C#m] to Fanario
[D] Our captain [A] fell in love
With a lady [F#m] like a dove
_ [A] And he [D] called her by name
_ Pretty [A] Peggy O _
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