Bird Song Tab

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
 
e|-------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------15--12------------------------|
D|-----12--13--15--12--------------13--15----------------|
A|-15------------------13--------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------|
 
 
Chords For 'Bird Song' by The Grateful Dead
 
[Intro/Riff]
D7--C-D7--C-D7
 
D7                                                    Riff
All I heard was something like a bird within her sing,
D7                                                  Riff
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
Bb   F      C                     G                    D7  Riff
Tell me all that you know and I'll show you snow and rain.
 
 
If you hear that same sweet song again will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passing by.
Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.
 
Bm        A    G     D   A    G     D   A         G            D
Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore, la da da da.
Bm           A      G     D   A    G   D    A           G
Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind, la da da
D   D7
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...
 
"Bird Song"
by the Grateful Dead
off of Reckoning
 
as tabbed by Ryan Izzo
(CD time in parenthesis)
 
h = hammer on    p = pull off
 
 
[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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