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    The song is actually called "The Wedding Song" and you can find it in
    the book "Rise Up Singing", available at most book stores.  
    
    							Brian

    Probably available in sheet music too, it's used *very* often...
    
    Greg

    
    Richard,
    
    I have the sheet music at home, and will try to remember to bring it in
    (unless somebody else gets to it first).
    
    If I recall, I think the one I have is written in the key of E.
    
    The Chords make the song, so I'd say it's worth the effort to
    get the right ones.
    
    Rich

It's in E, but it's not your STANDARD E chord fomration that
starts it.. Also there's quite a bit of decending notation
going on....  I'm not sure how to identify the chords, but
I know the tune cold..


a quick listen would help you find the notes if your ear
is o.k.

    Nice song for weddings.....I did it in A at my wedding, with my
    daughters singing (a beautifu trio including my stepdaughter....Alan
    was NOT there).  I used some neat chord voicings that let the high E
    string ring open throughout....in any key it's a beautiful tune with the
    right chord voices and the right singer....
    
    Enjoy!
    
    steve

    Thanks Everyone,
    
    I'm all set!  I can't wait to get home and begin to practice ;^)
    
    It really is a beautiful wedding song!  I hope I can do it justice.
    
    	Richard
    

    
      _    /|   
      \'o.O'    
      =(___)=   Aack!!!
         U      

    I believe the author is Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary fame.
    
    Edd
    

>>    _    /|   
      \'o.O'    
      =(___)=   Aack!!!
         U      
  

    I worked it out for a friend who played it at our wedding about a
    thousand or so years ago. The way Paul Stookey plays it, it's in a
    different tuning; it may be DADGAD, but it's been too long to remember.
    I'm almost sure that the top two strings are dropped a step (as in "two
    frets").

    Come to think of it, I remember the opening part, or at least this is
    pretty close. Do four bars of this first measure as intro, then use it
    as the first measure of the verse, then continue...

    D+-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
    A+----O---O---O---O|---O---O---O---O-|--O---O---O---O--|
    G+---2---2---2---2-|--2---2---2---2--|---O---O---O---O-|
    D+--O---O---O---O--|-2---2---2---2---|-O---O---O---O---|
    A+-5---5---5---5---|4---4---4---4----|2---2---2---2----|
    D+-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

    Charlie

re: .10

>        -< as expected.....Buck, you need to get some romance.... 8*) >-
>
>>>    _    /|   
>      \'o.O'    
>      =(___)=   Aack!!!
>         U      
  
I'm with Buck on this one.  That song drips so much schmaltz that you
have to wear boots while playing it (and I've played it way too many times).

-Hal

    Never heard it.
    P.K.

    re: -1
    
    
    yes you have....your Buckley subconcious has blocked it out.....
    
    steve

    I was forced to back someone up on that song at a wedding at
    Concord's Old North Bridge some years back (there's something about
    a wedding at the site of the start of a major war that strikes me as
    odd, somehow). "Forced" in that I was helping out a friend who was
    playing for the wedding, and the bride and groom specified the song
    as one they wanted. I convinced them to let us also do U. Utah
    Philips' "Hymn Song", which I always thought was a much better song
    for the occasion. 
    
    (Chorus goes
    	I believe if I lived my life again
    	I'd still be here with you	x2 )

Article: 1086 of alt.guitar.tab
From: [email protected] (Phil Bearce)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:17:59 GMT
Subject: MUSIC: Wedding Song - Paul Stookey

>From [email protected] Fri Jul 24 07:49 PDT 1992

                                 Wedding Song
	                         Paul Stookey

               E                          B/F#
	He is now to be among you at the calling of your haerts
        A(addB)                                      E
	Rest assured this troubador is acting on his part
                           B/F#            A(addB)        E
	The union of your spirits here has caused Him to remain
                C#m         E                B/F#
	For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name
                 A(addB)               E   F#
	There is love  -  -  there is love

               E                    B/F#         A(addB)         E
        Well a man should leave his mother and a woman leave her home
        C#m               E               B/F#
	They shall travel on to where the two shall live as one
              E             B/F#        A(addB)       E
	As it was in the beginning - is now unitl the end
        C#m             E                 B/F#
	Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again (and)
                 A(addb)              E    F#
	There is love  -  -  there is love

                   A        A/G#    F#m         B               E
	Well then what's to be the reason for becomming man and wife
              A         A/G#       F#m           B                    E
	Is it love that brings you here or is it love that brings you life
               E             B/F#         A(addB)         E
	For if loving is the answer then who's the giving for
           C#m            E                     B/F#
	Do you believe in something that you've never seen before
                     A(addB)              E    F#
	Oh, there is love  -  -  there is love

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    Them's nasty!

re: .17

>    Them's nasty!

Assuming you're referring to the chords in .16, they're also rather
incorrect.

-Hal