MARY’S BOY CHILD - Chords & Lyrics On-Screen - Key G

Описание: Play and sing Christmas song ‘MARY'S BOY CHILD‘- follow the real time chords and lyrics.
My strumming pattern: (4 beats to the bar) - I use a thin plectrum
All downstrokes.
Count: 1 2+3+4+ (repeated)
DDddddd
Count 1: downstroke on top (one or two) bass strings
2: slower downstroke emphasising all strings then a quick
downstroke on top bass strings.
3: two quick downstrokes
4: two quick downstrokes
……. with a small variation or two here and there. You can make it as
simple or as difficult as you like.

I couldn’t reach Harry Belafonte’s original key of Bbmajor. This version is in key Gmajor, 3 semitones (frets) lower.

FOR MY VERSION OF THE SONG FOR THE LOWER VOICE:    • MARY'S BOY CHILD - Chords & Lyrics on-scre...  
For my other version of the song:    • MARY’S BOY CHILD - Chords & Lyrics On-Scre...  

I can remember my dad buying this record at Christmas 1957. I was 9 years old. My younger brother and sister and me could not get enough of it. As soon as it finished we lifted the needle and placed it back at the start. I think we wore it out in the end.

"Mary's Boy Child" was written by Jester Hairston and first recorded by
Harry Belafonte in 1956 for his album An Evening with Belafonte.
An edited version was subsequently released as a single, reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1957.

It was the first single to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.

It was the first Number 1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes. (Harry Belafonte's "Mary's Boy Child" 1957; 4 mins 12 secs).

Harry Belafonte was the first black male to have a number one hit in the UK single charts.