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"Hand Me Down My Walking Cane", basic rhythm, key of D

"Hand Me Down My Walking Cane", basic rhythm, key of D

From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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"Hand Me Down My Walking Cane", basic rhythm, key of D

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- [Instructor] Alright ladies, we're gonna do Hand Me Down My Walking Cane now in the key of D. It might be a better key for your voice. Of course, I'm not going to be able to sing it up that high. Sorry to say, oh I could but it might be a comedy skit. So I'm gonna sing it down low, down a low octave. ♫ Hand me down my walking cane ♫ But you ladies will be singing it way up here. ♫ Hand me down my walking cane ♫ Hand me down my walking cane ♫ (laughs) It is pretty funny, isn't it? ♫ Hand me down my walking cane ♫ I'm gonna leave on the morning train ♫ My sins, they have all been taken away ♫ Yeah, so we gotta have a guy key and a ladies key, and I'm hoping that the key of D will work for a lot of you ladies. So the key of D, we're gonna start on a D chord. ♫ Hand me down my walking cane ♫ In the A chord, I'm simply going to a double bar here at the A chord which is A and E on the bottom two strings. And open A and E on the upper ones. And that's a great chord, it's a open chord, it…

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