General Grant's Visit To Dundee Chords

KeyAb CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays421

General Grant's Visit To Dundee by Michael Marra is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Ab. It uses the chords Ab, Eb, Eb/D, C7, Fm7, Bb and Gm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Ab
Text
16
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Intro 
Ab Eb 

Verse 
Ab                          Eb 
U. S. Grant paid a visit to my home town 
Ab                                     Eb 
Spruced it up with a lick of paint and showed him round 
Ab                                            Eb   Eb/D  C7 
Two bands played in fierce competition as the rain fell  down 
    Fm7                  Bb                           Eb     Bb         Eb     Ab  Eb  Bb  Eb 
The General said "What a mighty long bridge to such a mighty little old town" 

Ab                                             Eb 
A man called Grant hung from a window with the Stars and Stripes 
Ab                             Eb 
The orphan boys sang Alouette, sweetness and light 
Ab                           Eb      Eb/D       C7 
As they sang, firebell rang, ran for their lives 
     Fm7                                 Bb                             Eb              Ab  Eb  Bb  Eb 
What well-trained little orphans, what a precious little song, Said the General's wife 

Ab                                                   Eb 
Carriage was called to the Magdalen Green before the darkness fell 
Ab                                                       Eb 
With a short stopover for the lady's convenience at the, Royal Hotel 
Ab                                                        Eb          Eb/D  C7 
General frowned through the rest of the speeches, yet, he took it well 
       Fm7                             Bb                     Gm 
What a lovely little bandstand, with a lovely little steeple, charming little houses, 
     C7                                 Fm7                          Bb                Eb    Ab  Eb  Bb  Eb 
such cheerful little people, but what a mighty long bridge to such a mighty little old town 

Ab                          Eb 
U. S. Grant paid a visit to my home town 
Ab                                     Eb 
Spruced it up with a lick of paint and showed him round 
Ab                                            Eb   Eb/D  C7 
Two bands played in fierce competition as the rain fell  down 
       Fm7                            Bb 
What a pretty little bandstand, and a lovely little steeple, 
     Gm                               C7                    N.C. 
what charming little houses, and such cheerful little people 
N.C.       Fm7                           Bb                Eb   Bb  Eb  Ab  Eb  Bb  Ab  Eb 
but what a mighty long bridge to such, a mighty little old town 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante