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TAB: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Composed by Charlie Mingus Written by the fames jazz composer/bassist, Charlie Mingus, Pork Pie Hat was a nickname for Lester Young (Ajazz sax player) and Charlie Mingus sort of wrote the tune on the spot when he heard about the passing of Lester Young. This is a cleverly disguised 12-bar blues. The timing is actually based on triplets, but it was hard to write it out in TAB so I wrote it as if everything is 8th notes. Listening to the recording will help get this straight, I hope. The original key was Db but I lowered it by one half step to C. Slapping on a capo on first should solve the problem if you play with jazz musicians! There are a lot of "collisions" where melody notes do not "agree" with the given chord but that's a part of the mood of this tune. Recordings: Charlie Mingus, "Mingus Ah Um" I think Jeff Beck did it John McLaughlin, "My Goals and Beyond" (I think) Joni Mitchell, "Live" (I think). She wrote words to it John Renbourn and Bert Jansch, "Stepping Stones" (and also included in other compilations) TAB Note "tt" means triplet notes Pick-up measure N/C | | | | |-----------------| |-----------------| |-----------------| |-----------------| |---------------2-| |-----------------| E7 C7 Fmaj7 Bb7 D7 C7 D7 E7 1 | | | | 2 | | | | 3 | | | | 4 | | | | |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| |---0---0-2-0-----|---0-------------|---0---0-3-2-----|---0-------------| |-2---2-------2---|-2---2-0-2-------|-2---2-------2-0-|-2---2-0-2-----2-| |---------------3-|---------------2-|-----------------|-----------------| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| Am7 C7 F#m7 B7 C#7 F#7 C7 Fmaj7 5 | | | | 6 | | | |tt 7| | | | 8 | | | | tt |-----------------|---0-------------|-----------------|-----------------| |-0-3-------------|-0-------3-0-----|-----------------|-----------------| |-------0-2-0---0-|-------2-----0---|-0-3-------2-----|-0-------------32| |-----2-------2---|-----2--------1--|-------2-1-----4-|---------2-------| |-----------------|---------------3-|-----------------|-----------------| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| Bb7 A7 B7 D7 E7 C7 Fmaj7 Bb7 9 | | | | 10| | | | 11| | | | 12| | | | |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-0---------------| |-0---------------|-2-0-----3-2-0---|-0---------------|---2---0---------| |---------2-------|-----2-0-------2-|---------2-------|---------2-0-----| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------2---| |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| End C7 |-----------------|| |-----------------|| |-----------------|| |-2---------------|| |-----------------|| |-----------------||