“Mississippi Sawyer”
More parlor guitar from the parlor . . .
I teach “Mississippi Sawyer” to my students after they have “graduated” from learning the first position and are ready to start talking in more theoretical terms, i.e., keys and the like. At this point, many students are still wrestling with reading low notes and I use the tune to illustrate that despite learning all the notes on the strings it’s still possible, and quite preferable, to play a great melody on just a couple of strings with only a handful of notes.
My cursory research gives a few possible meanings to the title “Mississippi Sawyer”, and the most accepted, a person who saws logs, I find the most boring. The next best option is that it refers to the name of an actual riverboat, but my favorite is that it refers to a log that blocks the way along a river route. So, that’s the tale always tell.
It’s another fantastic two chord trip. However, I do add an extra harmony for fun. I teach it and also pick it in the key of C but recently discovered how great it favors G. Fiddle tunes are so much fun to spin out on and improvise but I’m too shy to try that here. Video 20 of 2017.
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