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With the exception of the first bunch which I either did from scratch or drastically altered what someone else started, most of these files will be text dumps of stuff I've found online and massaged (or not) to suit my voice and/or printout needs. Sometimes I'll put songs into different keys, some will be messy, I may have selected a section to print out at such-and-such font/size etc. Some have chords, many don't. I tend to remember chords more easily than lyrics. The parentheses may indicate author or performer, I don't always know who wrote it.
Feel free to email me with any corrections.

(if you can't make out my address, um, just send me an email :-)
And, sorry about the dead links. I'll blame Embarq's stupid "media safe" for that.

Many A Mile To Freedom (Traffic)

Life Is Beautiful (Keb'Mo') From his great 2006 CD Suitcase

Whole Nother Thang (Keb'Mo') From Suitcase

Holding (John Hartford) From Aereo-Plain

First Girl I Loved (John Hartford) From Aereo-Plain

Crazy Fingers (Grateful Dead) One of my all-time faves, from Blues For Allah

Granny Wontcha Smoke Some Marijuana (John Hartford) From Nobody Knows What You Do

Working on this: Finale Notepad format | MIDI file | PDF

How Long Blues, from Pinetop Perkins & Friends. My lame attempt to transcribe the great man's piano introduction. Finale Notepad format | MIDI file | PDF

Angel From Montgomery (John Prine)

Before You Accuse Me (Clapton, and ?)

Big Boss Man (Jimmy Reed, Grateful Dead)

Bold & Fly Like Energy (gareth) original

Mr. Spider (gareth) original

Maker Blues (gareth) original

Maggie May (Rod Stewart) On my list as a 12-string song

Dylan Chords (Zip File) Many songs in htm format, 2MB

Train song lyrics (Zip File) Collected for Steve B's going-away party.

Beatles Complete (PDF format) Many songs in one 1.9MB file

Touch of Grey (Grateful Dead)

Country Honk (Stones) Gotta do this sometime!

Far Away Eyes (Stones) (Chords shown for both G and E although the latter may be slightly inaccurate) Gary did this in Pawpaw - it was big fun - but I don't recall what key. I threw it into G for my lunchtime guitar-strumming buddies at work today.

You Won't See Me (Lennon McCartney) Works well for me in G (chords given).

MY BLUES SPREADSHEET (EXCEL) A few songs spelled out in I - IV - V terms. This could certainly be expanded on, many songs having virtually identical patterns.

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My Sound Studio (PC multi-track recording/editing program) About 9MB.

BTW I highly recommend TRANSCRIBE. This is a great aid to learning songs, especially if you need any help identifying notes, chords, or need pitch shifting, speed changing. They're up to version 7 or so, I really like version 6 so let me know if you want that (like if v7 isn't obvious what to do). I liked it so much I paid the small registration fee. I don't use it so much for pitch identification, but a friend of mine uses it a lot for that. I love starting and stopping with the space bar (other programs can do that too - like My Sound Studio - but Transcribe loads faster).

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You may want to skip these if you don't have broadband.

Tequila "commercial" (very funny :-)

g's 4th of July Uke Strum (gareth) FWIW, undeveloped original.

Recording of gray tree frog that somehow found its way into our living room.
We heard it last year too, but never could find it or identify it. It was silent through the winter, then it started making noise a few weeks ago (spring).
I made this minidisc recording last weekend I think (5/5/09). A few days ago I was outside and heard the exact same sounds, convincing me it had to be a frog.
Yesterday (5/15/09) Nancy saw it appear on the carpet so she caught it and took it outside. She identified it online and took a couple of pictures.

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Jack Casady Bass schematic You can get this from Gibson, but while readable, it's a bit fuzzy. Here is my cleaned-up rendition.