Wildwood Flower Mandolin/Banjo Tab By The Carter Family
I have given two versions of this popular Carter Family song which Johnny Cash also covered. The first version is in C and the other version is in the slightly higher key of D Major. The banjo / mandolin chords are in the key of C Major. Wildwood flower guitar chords. The piano chords are in the sheet music
WILDWOOD FLOWER
This famous mountain tune has long been a favorite of backwoods guitar pickers. When a guitar player graduates from using simple strums in accompanying songs and begins to explore the fascinating world of melody picking, "Wildwood Flower" is often the first song he tries. The tune is especially easy to pick out on the guitar in the key of C, because so many notes fall on open strings, strings fretted to form the chord, and neighboring frets. For those who wish to try, I am including in this section a simple arrangement in tablature.
The lyric of this song may seem a little soupy to some; apparently it struck Woody Guthrie that way, for he ignored the words altogether when he borrowed the tune for his World War II disaster ballad, "Reuben James."
Recordings: Joan Baez (Vanguard, VRS 9078); The Carter Family (Harmony, HL 7280); Eugene and Veronica Cox (Folkways, FA 2314); Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs (Columbia, CL 1664); Mickey Miller (Folkways, FA 2393); Artus Moser (Folk- ways, FA 2112); Tom Paley (Elektra, EKL 12); Obray Ramsey (Riverside, RLP 12 649). Variation: "Reuben James": Pete Seeger (Disc, D 101).
This famous mountain tune has long been a favorite of backwoods guitar pickers. When a guitar player graduates from using simple strums in accompanying songs and begins to explore the fascinating world of melody picking, "Wildwood Flower" is often the first song he tries. The tune is especially easy to pick out on the guitar in the key of C, because so many notes fall on open strings, strings fretted to form the chord, and neighboring frets. For those who wish to try, I am including in this section a simple arrangement in tablature.
The lyric of this song may seem a little soupy to some; apparently it struck Woody Guthrie that way, for he ignored the words altogether when he borrowed the tune for his World War II disaster ballad, "Reuben James."
Recordings: Joan Baez (Vanguard, VRS 9078); The Carter Family (Harmony, HL 7280); Eugene and Veronica Cox (Folkways, FA 2314); Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs (Columbia, CL 1664); Mickey Miller (Folkways, FA 2393); Artus Moser (Folk- ways, FA 2112); Tom Paley (Elektra, EKL 12); Obray Ramsey (Riverside, RLP 12 649). Variation: "Reuben James": Pete Seeger (Disc, D 101).
The 5 string banjo tab is in this ebook
wildwood flower guitar / mandolin chords
Wildwood flower sheet music mandolin tab with chords in D Major
Here's the banjo / mandolin chords for Wildwood Flower In the key of C Major
