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Forever Blowing Bubbles
(1919)
Words: Jaan Kenbrovin
Music: John W. Kellette
Arranged by: Ruth Randle
This wistful song was the result of a
cooperative project by three professional songwriters,
James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent. They
combined their talents and their names as aliases, and
published their work with a copyright by the Kendis-Brockman
Music Co. As a model for this song, they used the same
theme as that of a 1918 best seller called I’m Always
Chasing
Rainbows. Both songs tell the story of the sadness of
pursuing false hopes without success. Ironically, the
copyright to this song was sold a few months after
completion to Jerome H. Remick & Co. It soon became a
best seller and the new publisher enjoyed most of the
profit.
Ruth’s arrangement of this tune includes the verses of
the introductory lyrics, as well as the more familiar
chorus. To play the introduction, you will need to use a
1+ fret. That fret is not necessary, however, to play
the chorus appearing on page two. As you will hear from
the sound file, this song is played rather slowly, in a
dreamy fashion. In several places there are tied
half-notes and dotted half-notes requiring five or six
beats. In these cases, Ruth has shown the “extensions”
of these chords (in the tablature) in parentheses. Here
you may simply “hold” the chords or use fill notes to
satisfy the tempo required.
Note also the appearance of the 0/1/5 chord in two
places. If you are unable to make the finger stretch,
just play the melody note on the fifth fret.
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Please note these additional comments about this month’s
tab offering. Although the introductory portion of the
song (page 1) was arranged using the 1+ fret for
convenience, we later noticed that it was not actually
necessary for this portion of the music. Since
there is an important lesson to be learned here, we
refer readers to Learning Aid #7 on this website.
As shown there, among the 22 “new” chord
patterns added by the 1+ fret, you will find the three
used in this month’s tab offering. They are the 2/1+/3
(D), 2/1+/2 (F#m), and the 1/1+/2 (A) chords. Notice
that all require the same note (A) provided by the 1+
fret on the middle string. This is a note already
present on our D-F#-A fretboard, without the 1+ fret!
The lesson here is that we could have avoided the
need for the 1+ fret in this case.
For those wishing to play page 1 of this
month’s selection without a 1+ fret. we have
posted below a second version of that page. Readers are
encouraged to download and print both versions, to
compare differences in chord fingering as well as the
sound files.
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I'm Forever Blowing
Bubbles.PDF
I'm Forever Blowing
Bubbles.TEF
I'm
Forever Blowing Bubbles.MID
I’m Forever Blowing
Bubbles - text
I'm Forever Blowing
Bubbles_Page_1.JPG
I'm Forever Blowing
Bubbles_Page_2.JPG
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I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles v2.pdf
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
v2_Page_1.jpg I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
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I'm Forever Blowing BubblesV2.tef
I'm Forever Blowing V2.MID
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