I’m trying to find at least a simple score for the '60s Tom Paxton song “Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound”. Don’t need the lyric. I can sing it OK, if you’re generous enough to call what I do singing, but I am having the devil’s own time getting it to the whistle.
I found the sheet music, but it’s not free.
http://www.activemusician.com/store/artists/tom_paxton.asp?ref=gt
http://www.activemusician.com/store/product.asp?sku=HL.02500010&c=84E0E8D6387E458E8AC77323ADBF165D&sn=40&nav=a
I’m sure it’s still in copyright. Maybe I’ll have a look at the public library…
If you don’t need a score, and just need a few hints to play it on the whistle, try this:
bcD|DDDED|Dbc|cccba|abcccbaagab
Not standard ABC notation, of which I’m still clueless but you get the gist, I’m sure. That’s a Cnat, not a C#.
Favorite song of mine, by the way.
Redwolf
P.S. If you want it written out in notes, I could do that and email it to you…it is copyrighted, but I think it’s OK if it’s not posted, and if it’s just for practice purposes, particularly as it’s only the melody line. Let me know.
[ This Message was edited by: Redwolf on 2002-12-11 17:10 ]
Hi Chuck
I’m on the reference desk tonight and things are quiet, so I went looking through all our fake books for your song. We have about sixty here at the desk.
But alas no sign of your song in any.
MarkB
[grumble]
Buy Tom’s book. Support a hard-working, still-living folk musician by paying for his creative efforts.
[/grumble]
Sorry…I couldn’t help myself.
Chuck–maybe someone could buy it for you for a Christmas/Solstice/Year-End present. You’ve got the URL for a source now 
M
[edited to satisfy a compulsion]
Marguerite
Gettysburg
[ This Message was edited by: mvhplank on 2002-12-11 19:27 ]
Marguerite
If I wanted anymore than just a hint to the one song I would buy it. What’s one more music book? However, this one seemed so easy and I was going to learn this one wthout the full score. That and it’s written for piano and guitar and those scores confusre me. 'Sides, for what I want, $18 plus tax seems a bit steep.
Actually, after the holidays I may buy it. I really didn’t realize that Paxton had written all those songs.
Redwolf,
OK, so this is where I prove I’m as amateur as I claim. I get what you’re driving at - maybe because I don’t really know ABC either. But, after messing with it, wouldn’t the solution be to just play it on a C whistle? Looks/sounds that way to m, anyway.
On 2002-12-11 20:59, Chuck_Clark wrote:
MargueriteIf I wanted anymore than just a hint to the one song I would buy it. What’s one more music book? However, this one seemed so easy and I was going to learn this one wthout the full score. That and it’s written for piano and guitar and those scores confusre me. 'Sides, for what I want, $18 plus tax seems a bit steep.
Actually, after the holidays I may buy it. I really didn’t realize that Paxton had written all those songs.
Please forgive my griping–it was a knee-jerk reaction. I realize you’re probably learning it for your own pleasure. Enjoy! Might you also be a Stan Rogers fan?
Redwolf,
OK, so this is where I prove I’m as amateur as I claim. I get what you’re driving at - maybe because I don’t really know ABC either. But, after messing with it, wouldn’t the solution be to just play it on a C whistle? Looks/sounds that way to m, anyway.
Don’t know about playing it on a C whistle, but I find ABC a great tool and I’ve really gotten my money’s worth out of it–and more.
M