General Grant's Visit To Dundee Chords
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.
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