Topic: New Chords Postings
Long Long Way was the 1974 follow-up to Ian Thomas's self-titled debut album. It produced two successful singles, in the title track and "Mother Earth". It also gave the 1974 Most Promising Male Vocalist Juno award winner his second consecutive gold album. Thomas showed he was well on his way to becoming the hit-making machine he would be known as in Canada."Mother Earth" is actually a tale of two tunes. On the album, the song has a rootsy, folk-rock sound. The foundation of the track is a strummed acoustic guitar, enhanced by piano and keyboard parts, with a single vocal track by Thomas. By the time the song was released as the album's second single toward the end of 1974, it had undergone a total make-over, having been entirely re-arranged and re-recorded. The acoustic guitar had given way to a more fully keyboard driven sound, and backing vocals had been added. Overall, it was a slicker, more ear-catching arrangement, perhaps for the purpose of helping the song to stand out in the AM radio crowd. The single peaked at #41 on the RPM 100.
As far as I know, the only album the single version has ever appeared on is the 1980 greatest hits compilation The Best Of Ian Thomas. In 1993, when Thomas released another comprehensive best-of compilation (called Looking Back), "Mother Earth" wasn't included on it.This chord chart can be used for either version of the song. The main chord chart is of the single version, because I think that's probably the version more people are familiar with. At the end of the chord chart I've included the added parts for playing the LP version.
The chord chart:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/crd/thomasian-motherearth.txt
Audio (album version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQupbsS6gs
The single version:
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