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Marys Boy Child Chords And Strumming

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Did You Know? Mary's Boy Child was written in 1956 by Jester Hairston. It used the melody from the folk song Bingo (Bingo was his name-o). The first recording was by Harry Belafonte and was the first UK no 1 to have a playing time over 4 minutes long. It's since been recorded multiple times by other artists famously by Bony M in 1988. 

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Fairytale Of New York Chords And Strumming, The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl

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Did You Know? Fairytale Of New York took 2 years to write with multiple recordings and rewrites to perfect it. Surprisingly it's never been no.1 in the charts at Christmas time, but it's been in the UK top 20, 17 different times and it's the most played Christmas song of all time there.

It could have been called 'Christmas Time In The Drunk Tank' as suggested to the band by Elvis Costello but Singer Shane MacGowan decided instead to name the song after the novel A Fairy Tale of New York by J.P. Donleavy which fellow Pogue Jim Finer had left lying around the recording studio.  

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Play Me Chords And Strumming, Neil Diamond

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Did You Know? Play Me was the first single from Neil Diamond's 1972 album Moods. it was also the first time Neil collaborated with his long term guitar player Richard Bennett who played the arpeggiated chords in the song. Strangely, the lyrics have been debated in academic circles because it uses the word 'brang' instead of 'brought'

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Wild Rover Chords And Strumming, The Dubliners

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Did You Know? Wild Rover the song is at least as old as the 16th century. It's a staple song for bands in the pubs of Ireland and it's considered to be a drinking song. It's the most widely performed Irish song but the origins of it are unknown. The Dubliners recorded their version of it on their 33rd album called Wild Rover

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Jack And Diane Chords And Strumming, John Mellencamp

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Did You Know? John Mellencamp wrote Jack & Diane about the Tennessee Williams film Sweet Bird of Youth. He considered it a terrible record to make and found it hard to make the timing sound good with a full band. He said that the clapping was originally used only a a guide to keep time and was going to be removed but then he realised that the song didn't work without it. The electric guitar player on the song is Mick Ronson from David Bowie's band, John said about working with him - 

'Mick was very instrumental in helping me arrange that song, as I'd thrown it on the junk heap. All of a sudden, for 'Jack & Diane,' Mick said, 'Johnny, you should put baby rattles on there.' I thought, 'What the f*ck does put baby rattles on the record mean?' So he put the percussion on there and then he sang the part 'let it rock, let it roll' as a choir-ish-type thing, which had never occurred to me. And that is the part everybody remembers on the song. It was Ronson's idea'

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Folsom Prison Blues Chords And Strumming, Johnny Cash

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Did You Know? Folsom Prison Blues was written in 1955 and recorded on Johnny Cash's very first album John Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! He since recorded 97 albums and even performed the song live to in mates at Folsom State Prison in 1968. It was the song that he played first at almost every live performance he did and Rolling Stone Magazine considers Folsom Prison Blues to be the 51st greatest song of all time.

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Handle With Care Chords And Strumming, The Traveling Wilburys

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Did You Know? Handle With Care was the first song recorded and released by the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys featuring George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne & Tom Petty. The bad originally started as a joke. They were going to put the song on the B side of a George Harrison single, but when the record label heard the song they said it was too good and urged the band to do more.

Sadly last music video for the song was the last that Roy Orbison filmed before he passed away.

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Stand By Me Chords And Strumming, Oasis

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Did You Know? Noel Gallagher of Oasis wrote Stand By Me after giving himself food poisoning. He had moved to London and his mum kept calling and reminding him to eat properly. So Noel cooked himself a Sunday roast but unfortunately gave himself food poisoning and was sick for two days.  

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Fake Plastic Trees Chords And Strumming, Radiohead

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Did You Know? Fake Plastic Trees was the US the follow up single to Creep. Radiohead singer Thom York described the song as 'The product of a joke that wasn't really a joke, a very lonely, drunken evening and, a breakdown of sorts'. It began with a melody that he had no idea what to do with and he decided not to force the song in any directly but to go with whatever was in his head at the time. 

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Sunshine of Leith - The Proclaimers free, easy, accurate and printable beginner guitar chords and strumming

Sunshine On Leith Chords And Strumming, The Proclaimers

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Did You Know? Sunshine of Leith is the title track of The Proclaimers second album. It's frequently played at the Easter Road Football Stadium of the team Hibernian F.C. whom The Proclaimers support. Craig Read who wrote the song considers it the best song he's ever written. 

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