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Acadian Saturday Night

Stan Rogers
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
  1 * * *
 And it's oh____, don't the fiddles make you roll
  4 * 6m *
 Till your heart, she pounds like a hammer
  1 * * *
 There's a fat lady beating the piano like a drum
  4 * 6m * 1 57 1 *
 And everybody's higher than a kite____, on A-cadian Saturday Night
 Grandpa said it was better in his day
 The Mounties stayed away from the parties
 And he didn't mind a fight, when the spirits got high
 You could always throw them out in the snow
 And the rum was better, and it came in bigger bottles
 And the revenue cutters were slow
 But the old Anne Marie has wings on the water
 And there's nothing like Trinidad Light, (for Acadian Saturday Night)
 ENDING: CHORUS THREE TIMES, OMIT (..) ON SECOND PASS
 SYMBOLS:
 - Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord
 - Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure
 - Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure
 CHORDS (Number System):
 - Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
 - Key of
 
 -  Detailed  description:  /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt

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Readable chord sheet for Acadian Saturday Night by Stan Rogers

1   *             *                *
And it's oh____, don't the fiddles make you roll
          4          *             6m      *
Till your heart, she pounds like a hammer
          1        *           *            *
There's a fat lady beating the piano like a drum
    4           *             6m    *        1      57       1      *
And everybody's higher than a kite____, on A-cadian Saturday Night

Grandpa said it was better in his day
The Mounties stayed away from the parties
And he didn't mind a fight, when the spirits got high
You could always throw them out in the snow
And the rum was better, and it came in bigger bottles
And the revenue cutters were slow
But the old Anne Marie has wings on the water
And there's nothing like Trinidad Light, (for Acadian Saturday Night)

ENDING: CHORUS THREE TIMES, OMIT (..) ON SECOND PASS

SYMBOLS:
- Asterisk (*) =  new measure, play same chord
- Period (.)   =  1/8 note rest at start of a measure
- Underline(_) =  sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):
- Example:     1    2    3    4    5    6    7
- Key of
 [C]
-[C] Detai[D]led de[E]script[F]ion: /[G]pub/gu[A]itar/o[B]ther_stuff/numbering_system.txt

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