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Ginny · 03-31-2007, 01:16 PM

Hi Ken. The songbook you refer to is most likely the same one I have as well. It's "Did She Mention My Name" and then in much bigger fancy sort of calligraphic style, the name "Lightfoot." I have it dated as 1968. "The Mountains and Marian" is a special song for me as it is my wife's name and yes we live here in the mountains of BC. There's more to the story but some other time. Anyway I'm not sure if I can provide much help because as you say, you're good at picking up stuff by ear and what's in the songbook is as close as I can come to it and I love playing along to the tunes and that one is clearly a Gibson B45 tune, and the one I have is my baby. Red Shea's style rings through clearly as well and I never tire listening to him crank it out. Gord doesn't seem to do this tune in his shows anymore these days. Another site I use although it doesn't have Mountains and Marian listed, at least not yet, but they keep adding his tunes to it, is called www.chordie.com. They also print out the actual chord formations so that makes it relatively simple. If I discover anything further I will post it for you here. Cheers, Ron J.

03-31-2007, 01:16 PM	#11
Ginny Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 83	Hi Ken. The songbook you refer to is most likely the same one I have as well. It's "Did She Mention My Name" and then in much bigger fancy sort of calligraphic style, the name "Lightfoot." I have it dated as 1968. "The Mountains and Marian" is a special song for me as it is my wife's name and yes we live here in the mountains of BC. There's more to the story but some other time. Anyway I'm not sure if I can provide much help because as you say, you're good at picking up stuff by ear and what's in the songbook is as close as I can come to it and I love playing along to the tunes and that one is clearly a Gibson B45 tune, and the one I have is my baby. Red Shea's style rings through clearly as well and I never tire listening to him crank it out. Gord doesn't seem to do this tune in his shows anymore these days. Another site I use although it doesn't have Mountains and Marian listed, at least not yet, but they keep adding his tunes to it, is called www.chordie.com. They also print out the actual chord formations so that makes it relatively simple. If I discover anything further I will post it for you here. Cheers, Ron J.