BEATLES - "free as a bird" Tablature

Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 16:38:20 -0500
From: Miller <justmiller@mindspring.com>
Subject: b/beatles/free_as_a_bird.tab



From: justmiller@mindspring.com
Subject: Free As A Bird by the Beatles

Here is the first of the two new Beatles songs from the Anthology series.
The other tab already in the archive is a little hard to follow, so I
figured out the intro for myself and wrote them down. This song features
some ingenious slide work from George which isn¹t really very hard to
learn. The hard part (for me) is getting the tone and sustain that
he gets, especially on the wide vibrato on the first note of the solo.
Anyway, just have fun with this great song! - Zach


Free As A Bird
Words and Music by John Lennon


A: x02220 F#m: 244222 Dm: xx0231 E: 022100
G: 320003 C: x32010 Esus4: 022200 Fmaj7: x32210
F#m7b5: 202210 A/G: 3x2220 Am: x02210 Fm: 133111


Intro w/slide

A F#m Dm E A F#m Dm E
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
|-/5-------------|----------5\1/2-|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|----------------|-/2-------------|--------(4\)2/7-\5-|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|

A F#m Dm G C Am Esus4 E
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|------5-8\5/6/8(\)5--------------|----------------|
|-/2-------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|


Verse 1

A F#m Dm E A F#m
Free as ...
Dm E A F#m
It's the ...
Dm G C Am Esus4 E
Free as ...


A F#m Dm E A F#m
Home, home ...
Dm E A F#m
Like a homing ...
Dm G C Am Esus4 E
As a bird ...


Bridge 1

Fmaj7 F#m7b5
What ever happened ...
G A A/G
Can we really ...
Fmaj7 F#m7b5
Where did we ...
G E
It always ...


Verse 1

A F#m Dm E A F#m
Free as...
Dm E A F#m
It's the ...
Dm G C Am Esus4 E
Free as a ...


A F#m Dm E A F#m
Home, home ...
Dm E A F#m
Like a homing ...
Dm G C Am Esus4 E
As a bird ...

Bridge 2

Fmaj7 F#m7b5
What ever ...
G E
Always made ...

Guitar Solo w/slide

C Am Fm G C Am Fm G
~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|-/17------------|--------18/20---|-20\17----------|-13/16\15--8/---|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

C Am Fm G A F#m ...
~~~~~
|-12--12/17\12-----|-8/11\10---3--|---9-------------
|------------------|--------------|-----------------
|------------------|--------------|-/9--------------
|------------------|--------------|-----------------
|------------------|--------------|-----------------
|------------------|--------------|-----------------
Free...

A F#m Dm E A F#m
Free as a ...
Dm E A F#m
It's the next ...


Coda w/slide

Dm G A F#m Dm E A F#m
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|-/5-----(1)/2--|---------------|-----5------/7-|
|---------------|---------------|-/2------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
Free as ...Free as ...

w/o slide
Dm E A F#m Dm G A
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|--/1-----------|--/5----(1)/2--|---------------|--2------------||
|---------------|---------------|-/2------------|--2------------||
|---------------|---------------|---------------|--2------------||
|---------------|---------------|---------------|--0------------||
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
Free as a ...