GRATEFUL DEAD - "bird song" Tablature
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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 08:19:59 -0600
From: Dan Cotter <dcotter@uky.campus.mci.net>
Subject: TAB: Bird Song by Grateful Dead
Song Name: Bird Song
Artist Name: Grateful Dead
My Name: Dan Cotter (dcotter@uky.campus.mci.net)
Album: Reckoning
Words/Music: Hunter/Garcia
Main Riff in 'Bird Song' by The Grateful Dead
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From: U270009@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU (black.peter@scarolina.edu)
Chords For 'Bird Song' by The Grateful Dead
Intro/Riff: D7--C-D7--C-D7
D7 Riff
All I heard was something like ...
D7 Riff
All I know she sang a ...
Bb F C G D7 Riff
Tell me all that you know and I'll ...
If you hear that same sweet song again ...
Bm A G D A G D A G D
Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't ...
Bm A G D A G D A G
D D7
Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry ...
da, da.
Just a note, I believe this is the version on "Garcia," in D, early live
versions were also in D but switched to E...
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 15:27:17 -0700
From: Ryan Izzo <izzo@4link.net>
Subject: TAB: 'Bird Song' by 'The grateful dead'
"Bird Song"
by the Grateful Dead
off of Reckoning
as tabbed by Ryan Izzo <mailto:izzo@k-net.net>
(CD time in parenthesis)
h = hammer on p = pull off
b = bend r = release bend
\ = slide ~ = let ring
Intro and Main Riff:
E
e|--------------------------------|
B|.------------------------------.|
G|---------------------2-----(1)--|
D|-------0--4---2-0-2----4-0--2---|
A|.-2--4---------------------(2)-.|
E|-(0:00)-------------------------|
Solo:
e|--5p3--------------------------------------------5p3-----------------------|
B|--------3-3---(2)-(2)----0h2-2--3p2--------------------3-3----2-2---2--3p2-|
G|------------not
audible----------------2--4-4------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-(2:19)-----------------------------------------(2:25)---------------------|
e|----------------4-5-4--2---------------------------------------------------|
B|-2-------------------------it gets too fast
here---------------------------|
G|-----2----4-4--------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------(2:32)------------------------------------------------------|
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