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Bedhead - Liferaft guitar tab

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Subject: TAB: 'Liferaft' by Bedhead

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:32:06 -0500 (CDT)

From: "jeffnmoe"

'Liferaft' by Bedhead

from the album 'Whatfunlifewas'

(note: if anyone knows the complete lyrics, please

send them to me at jeffnmoe@mcs.com....are there

any other Bedhead fans reading this newsgroup?)

dropped-D tuning (tune low E down to D)

chords (intro and verses)

C - x32010

D - 000232

Dm - 000231

F - xx3211

G - x20003 (don't play low E because of tuning)

chords (bridge)

Bb - x13331

C - x35553

Eb - x68886

F - 333xxx

(figure 1a) - the following line is played at beginning

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-----------------------0-------------------------------

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-----0--0-----0---2--3----------0--0-----0---2--3------

--0--------0-----------------0--------0----------------

(figure 1b) - the following line is played during the

verses (only over Dm-G or D-G chords)

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-----------------------0----0--------------------------

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-----0--0-----0---2--3----3----3--2--3-----------------

--0--------0-------------------------------------------

(figure 2) - this line is played during the bridge...

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--------1--3-------------------------------------------

--3--3--------2--0--0-----------------0--2-------------

-----------------------1--1--0--1--3-------------------

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(figure 3) - this solo is played after the bridge

-------------------1--0---------------------

--3---3---3---3----------3--0--1--3--1------

----2---2---2---2-----------------------2--- repeat 4x and

-------------------------------------------- then play....

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--------------1------------------

-----0---------------0--0---0---- repeat several times

--3-----3--3-----3---------------

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*********** how it all goes together *************

(INTRO)

(play figure 1a by itself, and then play figure 1b during

the Dm and G chords in the following chord progression:

Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-C-G-F-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G)

(VERSE: figure 1b is played over D-G chords during verses)

D G

the bed at night is a liferaft

D G

in the ocean of the dark

D G

i hang my hands over the sides

D G

and pray that god knows why

C G

drifting somewhere in the black

F G

feeling (low?) 'neath the blanket

C G

and the weight of the mattress

F G

the mistress of the sheets

(BRIDGE: play following chord progression using

bridge chord shapes shown above:

Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F-Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F

Second guitar plays figure two (shown above) over chords)

Bb F C

on many successive nights i've been miserable

Eb Bb F

give one (sense?) to sense the invisible

F

i know you're in this room

being (? ? ?)

(SOLO: play figure three over repeated chord

progression Dm-G...)

(VERSE)

D G

the bed at night is a lifeboat

D G

a throne off which you can (?) from

D G

i hang my hands and feet over the sides

D G D

and pray to the space of what can never be known

....questions, comments and corrections

to jeffnmoe@mcs.com

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