Valley
By
Ian Anderson, from Jethro Tull’s Roots
to Branches CD.
Transcribed
by Peter Dawson
Capo V
Intro, freely
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commence steady rhythm
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Riff 1 (play twice)
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* second time
Riff 2 (x4 before verse)
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Variations
to Riff 2 played in verse
variation
1
variation 2 (whistling)
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variation 3
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[Riff 1]
[Riff 2] x4
Verse 1 [sung
over Riff 2]
Wake hard in
the morning
See the young
girl milking
Stream
rushing by on a bed of stone.
Old goats and
sandstone cracking -
All
containing -
Squeezing
that river like it squeeze your bones. [var 1]
Chorus
[Riff 3] (repeat)
A5
Bb A5
Bb A5
C A5
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In the red
valley
people too
long.
long
red,
live here
In the red
valley they
only valley song.
long
red,
sing the
* omit second
time
[Riff 2] x2
Verse 2 [sung
over Riff 2]
Some bad
people living further down the valley.
Not easy for
us to do good trade.[variation 1]
We got
snowmelt, snowmelt sweet water:[variation 2]
they got that
valley road that they made. :[variation 3]
Chorus [Riff
3]
In the long
red, red valley people dying here too long.
In the long
red, red valley they only sing the valley song.
Middle 8
C
D
C D
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Holding hands on
the
Showing love to your
hillside.
brother -
G
F
G F
C spoken (no chord)
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Your
sister
But we hate those people down the
and your mother
- p;
valley.
[Riff 1]
played once only
[Riff 2]
Has anybody
seen Moses?
Get him off
that mountain.
Bring back
the tablets of stone. [variation 3]
It's a wise,
wise prophet who keeps [var 2] his own council.
Yeah, leave
the other man's wife alone. [variation 3]
In the long
red, red valley people living here too long.
In the long
red, red valley they only sing the valley song.
Instrumental
over chorus leads into..
1.Bb
C
C Bb
2.C
C
Bb
C C
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C
C Bb
2
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C C
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Repeat Middle
8
[Riff 1]
[Riff 2]
Wake hard in
the morning
See the young
girl milking
Sleepy stream
with its head on a bed of stone. [variation 1]
Old goats and
sandstone cracking -
All
[variation 2] containing -
Squeezing
that river like it squeeze your bones. [variation 3]
Chorus
In the long
red, red valley people living here too long.
In the long
red, red valley they only live the valley song.
In the long
red, red valley people dying here too long.
In the long
red, red valley only know the valley song.