Beardsongs by Beardwagon » colonial http://beardsongs.com Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:42:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Jim Jones – cover http://beardsongs.com/archives/16 http://beardsongs.com/archives/16#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:52:26 +0000 admin http://beardsongs.com/?p=16 Jim Jones was written as late as 1907 according to Wikipedia, though the narrator in the song is singing from the late 1700’s about his transportation to Sydney in convict chains. I came across the lyrics reading a newspaper article about the history of Sydney & found a version with a chord sequence on the website of a Boston Folk Society. I’m not sure if these are the chords that are most used for the song, although it is a Colonial Classic of sorts I’ve never heard another version, though I read here that Bob Dylan did one on his early 90s acoustic album.

It seems to lend itself to being played fast (and for me this is quite fast), it’s the sort of song I could hear The Pogues doing a version of. This version was recorded pretty quickly (I think this is the first take) and mixed just as fast.

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