Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird guitar tab

Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird

Trad

Performed by Bob Dylan on the second Gaslight show (late Oct 1962)

Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

Dropped D tuning (D-A-d-g-b-e')

Capo 4th fret

The tab only indicates the deviations from the D chord in the beginning. Meanwhile the strumming goes on, more or less as indicated in the first measure. The tab gives the pattern for the verses and for the interlude (last two lines)

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D

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|--2---2-2-2-2-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

|*-3---3-3-3-3-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

|--2---2-2-2-2-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

|--0---0-0-0-0-----|-0---------------|-----------------|-0---------------|

|*-0-----------3---|-----------------|-------------3---|-----------------|

|--0---------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

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| 1. |

F /c D

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|(1)--------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||

|-1---------------|---------1-------|-----------------|----------------*||

|-2---------------|---------2-------|-----------------|-----------------||

|-3---------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-0---------------||

|-----------------|---------3-------|-------------3---|----------------*||

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||

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|2.

F /c F D

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|(1)--------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

|-1---------------|-1-------1-------|-----------------|-----------------|

|-2---------------|-2-------2-------|-----------------|-----------------|

|-3---------------|---------3-------|-0---------------|-0-------3-------|

|-----------------|-3---------------|-------------3---|-----------------|

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|-3---0-----------|---------3-------|-3---0-----------|---------0-------|

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|-------------3---|-0---------------|-------------3---|-0---------------|

F D

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|-----------------|-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|

|-1---------------|-1-------1-------|-3---------------|-----------------|

|-2---------------|-2-------2-------|-2---------------|-----------------|

|-3---------------|---------3-------|-0---------------|-0---------------|

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D /c D /c D

Oh, the cuckoo is a pretty bird

F D

An' she warbles as she flies

D /c D /c D

But she never sings "Cuckoo"

F D

'till the fourth day 'n July

I've a-gambled in England

I've gambled in Spain

'An I betchu' ten dollars

That I'll beatchu' next game

I'll build me a cabin

On a mountain so high

So I can see Mary

When she goes ridin' by

I wish I was a poet

An' could write a fine hand

I'd write my love a letter

Lawd she would understand

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