PEARL JAM - "alive" Tablature

From: "Alastair Harden" <a_superhero_named_tony@hotmail.com>
Subject: p/pearl_jam/alive.crd
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:31:52 +0100

Alive by Pearl Jam
>From the album Ten
By Stone Gossard
(c)1991 Sony Music Entertainment

Transcribed by Alastair Harden <a_superhero_named_tony@hotmail.com>

This was inspired by the excellent transcription by Evan Cowan, in
that I went to play it from his tab and was faced with a 16 page
(no joke) transcription of every note in the song... I thought I
would condense it and ended up wholly re-transcribing it in a
busker-friendly fashion. I laboriously typed out the lyrics then
then sat and removed them (diet-OLGA). There is obviously a lead
part, but check Evan's tab for this. It sounds like it's played
on an electro-acoustic 12-string, but that's just a guess.

Chords:These are as I play them and EADGBe
not necessarily the way they A-577655--for verses+break
are played on the CD Asus4-577755
F-x33211
C-x32010
Csus2-x32030
E-022100
G-320033
E A D G B e D-xx0232
B/F#-x 9 9 11 12 x A-x02220--for the chorus
B/D#-11 9 9 11 12 x B-799877
F#/C#-9 9 11 11 11 x Bsus4-799977

--
Intro: (after lead)
A Asus4 x6
F C
--
Verse 1:
A Asus4 A Asus4
Son, she said have... story for you
A Asus4 A Asus4
What you thought... daddy was...
A Asus4 A Asus4
While... home alone @ age thirteen
A Asus4 A Asus4
Your real... dyin'... sorry you didn't
F C Csus2 F C
see him... glad we talked
--
Chorus:
E G D A
I... Oh... I'm... alive hey x2
E G D A
I... Oh... I'm... alive hey oh
B/F# B/D#
--
Verse 2:
A Asus4 A Asus4
While... across a young man's...
A Asus4 A Asus4
She said I'm ready... for...
A Asus4 A Asus4
I can't... anything... this very day
A Asus4 A Asus4
'Cept the look... the look...
F C Csus2 F C
You know where now I can't see...
E G D A
stare. I... I'm still alive hey...
--
Repeat Chorus
--
Break:
B B/D# F#/C# x4
--
Bridgey-middle 8 thing:
A Asus4 A Asus4
Is... she said
A Asus4
...there is
A Asus4
...she said
B Bsus4
...deserve to be?
B Bsus4
...question?
B Bsus4
And if so... if so,
B Bsus4
who answers? Who answers?
--
Repeat Chorus
--
Solo:
E G D A xlots--see existing tab for eddie's solo.
--
Then cue the Queen-like drums on "why go"
--
There ya go- only 2 pages.
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