Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band - Gravedigger (3) guitar tab

Here's the chord index... (You hammer the Am chords throughout the song)

Am Am2 E D/G F G Dm C A#

0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 1

1 1 0 3 1 3 3 1 3

2 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 3

2 2 2 0 3 0 0 2 3

0 0 2 0 3 2 0 3 1

0 3 0 2 1 3 0 0 1

Am Am2

Cyrus Jones, 1810 to 1913.

F Am

Made his, great grandchildren believe you could live to a hundred & three.

Am Am2

Well, a hundred & three is forever when you're just a little kid

F Am

So, Cyrus Jones lived forever.

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Am

Gravedigger

Am2

When you dig my grave.

E

Could you make it shallow.

Am Am2 D/G

So that I can feel the rain.

Am

Gravedigger.

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Am Am2

Muriel Stonewall, 1903 to 1954.

F Am

Lost both of her babies, in the second great war.

Am Am2

Now you should never have to watch as your only children are lowered in the

ground.

F Am

You should, never have to bury your own babies.

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CHORUSx1 (Add a few extra quickly timed hammers on the Am to go into the bridge.)

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Dm F C G A

Ring around the rosie.

Dm F C G A

Pocket full of posey.

Dm F C G A

Ashes to ashes.

Dm F C G

We all fall down.

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CHORUSx1

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Am Am2

Little Mikey Carson, 67 to 75.

F Am

Rode his, bike like the devil until the day he died.

Am Am2

When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeez, oh, well.

F Am

1940 to 1990---2!

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CHORUSx1

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(He changes his singing pattern for this version of the chorus)

Am Am2

Gravedigger, when you dig my grave.

E

Could you make it shallow.

Am Am2 D/G

So that I can feel the rain, I can feel the rain, oh.

Am Am2

Gravedigger, when you dig my grave.

E (Let ring)

Could you make it shallow.

Am Am2 D/G

So that I can feel the rain.

Am Am2 F E

Gravegigger.

Am Am2 F E

Am Am2 F (Let Ring)

Gravedigger

-That's all there is to it. Pretty easy song to play. The other chords were a bit

mixed up. I admit I don't know the names of all of them, but I do know how to play

them, so if you look at the little chord index I put in, this should should 100% correct.-

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