{title: Fogarty's Cove}
{artist: Stan Rogers}
{album: Fogarty's Cove (1976) — the title track of Rogers' debut album}
{key: D}
{tempo: 110}
{difficulty: advanced}
{phase: 3}
{strand: CR}
{feel: sway}
{lead_voice: mid}
{lead_mode: solo}
{lead_demand: moderate}
{harmony: M,H,B}
{a_cappella: no}
{kit: gtr,fdl,mnd}
{set_role: builder}
{lang: en}
{country_tags: CA}
{copyright: copyrighted}
{tags: canadiana,chorus,copyrighted,forecastle,harmony,maritime,shanty,stan-rogers}
{credit: Stan Rogers — 'Fogarty's Cove' (Fogarty's Cove, 1976). (c) Fogarty's Cove Music. Chord skeleton only — for full lyrics see the Stan Rogers Songbook (Ariel Rogers, ed.) or stanrogers.net.}

{c: Stan Rogers' warm, rolling Maritime love song. Rich harmonies in the chorus, gentle 4/4 ballad pace. A signature-sound candidate for The Mayne Stays — the kind of song that defines a band's character.}
{c: Four chords (D, G, A, Bm). Capo 2 on guitar for the recorded key (Stan plays in E with capo, but D is the working key for the chord shapes).}
{c: CHORD SKELETON ONLY. Lyrics are copyrighted. Reference the official source.}

{c: ===== STRUCTURE =====}
{c: Verse / Chorus / Verse / Chorus / Verse / Chorus / Chorus. Four verses, three sung choruses, one final repeat.}

{start_of_verse}
{c: VERSE: gentle storytelling pace, voice carried by light guitar boom-chuck.}
[D] / / / | [G] / / / | [D] / [Bm] / | [A] / / /
[D] / / / | [G] / / / | [D] / [A] / | [D] / / /
{end_of_verse}

{start_of_chorus}
{c: CHORUS: "Fogarty's Cove" — three-part harmony lands here. Lead carries the melody, mid voice takes the third above, top voice the fifth.}
[D] / / / | [Bm] / / / | [G] / / / | [A] / / /
[D] / / / | [Bm] / / / | [G] / [A] / | [D] / / /
{end_of_chorus}

{c: ===== HARMONY NOTES =====}
{c: The chorus is the Mayne Stays' signature-sound work. Hold the three-part harmony all the way through the chorus — verses can be lighter (lead + one harmony only).}
{c: Suggested voicing on D: lead D, mid F#, top A. On Bm: lead B, mid D, top F#. On G: lead G, mid B, top D. On A: lead A, mid C#, top E.}
{c: This song REWARDS rehearsal. Don't perform until the three-part is clean.}

{c: ===== REFERENCE RECORDINGS =====}
{c: Stan Rogers — 'Fogarty's Cove' (Fogarty's Cove, 1976). The definitive version.}
{c: Stan Rogers — 'Fogarty's Cove' (Between the Breaks... Live!, 1979). Live arrangement.}
{c: The Stan Rogers Songbook (Ariel Rogers, ed.) — the only authoritative print source for the lyrics.}