Tab and notes by Bo Parker

Here's a tab for Year of Jubilo, by Henry Clay Work. This is also known as Kingdom Coming. It's from the American Civil War, and is a tune that just about everyone's heard, in cartoon soundtracks, etc. The melody as notated is pretty sparse - you'll have to add some strums a la "Carter style" to fill it out. I've heard several fiddlers do this one, but I'm the only guitarist I know of that does it. Very cool tune with a very catchy melody. IIRC, fiddlers do this one out of D, so you'll have to capo at 2 to play this arrangement with a fiddler. This is usually played at about 200 - 220 quarter notes/minute.

Pick-up measure
  N/C
  |   |   |   |
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-------------2-0-|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|

Part A
  C                                                     G
1 |   |   |   |   2 |   |   |   |   3 |   |   |   |   4 |   |   |   |
|-----------------|-----0---0-------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------3-1---|---------1-------|-----------------|
|*------------0---|-0-------------2-|-0---------------|-----------------|
|*----2---2-------|-----------------|-----2---------2-|-0-------0-3-2-0-|
|-3---------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

                                                      _1________________
  C                                           G       | C
5 |   |   |   |   6 |   |   |   |   7 |   |   |   |   8 |   |   |   |
|-----------------|-----0---0-------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------3-1---|-----1---3-3-----|-1---------------|
|-------------0---|-0-------------2-|-0-------------0-|----------------*|
|-----2---2-------|-----------------|-------------0---|-------------2-0*|
|-3---------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

_2________________
| C
16|   |   |   |
|-----------------|
|-1---------------|
|-------------0-1-|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|

Part B
  F                                   C                 G
17|   |   |   |  18 |   |   |   |  19 |   |   |   |  20 |   |   |   |
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----1-----------|---------1-------|-----------------|
|*2-------2-----0-|-2-----------2---|-0---------------|-----------------|
|*----------------|-----------------|-----2-------2---|-0-------0-3-2-0-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

                                                      _1________________
  C                                           G       | C
21|   |   |   |  22 |   |   |   |  23 |   |   |   |  24 |   |   |   |
|-----------------|-----0---0-------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------3-1---|-----1---3-3-----|-1---------------|
|-------------0---|-0-------------2-|-0-------------0-|-------------0-1*|
|-----2---2-------|-----------------|-------------0---|----------------*|
|-3---------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

_2________________

32|   |   |   |
|-----------------|
|-1---------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|


|   |   |   |  marks the passage of quarter notes.

*
*  is a repeat symbol

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