Langtree’s Lament (Over the Garden Wall) (Tab)

Janet Klein – Langtree’s Lament (Tab)

Cartoon Network’s Over the Garden Wall has featured a bunch of old-timey musicians including Frank Fairfield, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton and ukulele chanteuse Janet Klein. I got had a request I couldn’t ignore for a song from the show so it was inevitable I went for Klein’s Langtree’s Lament.

Nothing too tricky in this arrangement. It’s almost all played with strums. There are some places when you’re not strumming all the strings e.g. bar 10. There the melody switches to the g-string so you need to emphasise that string. It’s not a big deal if you don’t hit exactly the strings tabbed so long as you’re holding the chord down (in that bar Bb7).

The notes I pick are the slides up to the fifth fret in bars 2 and 6, the one note in bar 7 and the campanella picking in bars 14 and 15. If you’re dead set against campanella you can also play it like this:

LangtreesLament

Links

Over the Garden Wall on iTunes
JanetKlein.com

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7 Comments

  1. Mark March 4th, 2016 12:00 pm

    Very sweet!

  2. Woodshed March 4th, 2016 2:40 pm

    Mark: Glad you like it!

  3. milko March 4th, 2016 3:04 pm

    yeah that’s nice. Will attempt!

  4. Liz March 4th, 2016 5:04 pm

    I’m not familiar with this cartoon but I dig this song! Going to spend the afternoon learning this one.

  5. Woodshed March 5th, 2016 8:33 am

    milko: Happy practicing!

    Liz: Glad you like it!

  6. Jan March 19th, 2016 2:51 pm

    What a great song! Very well performed, Alistair! I’m highly motivated, to try playing this one. Thank you.

  7. Woodshed March 20th, 2016 12:00 pm

    Jan: Thanks! Enjoy playing it!

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