Grateful Dead - Run For The Roses guitar tab

Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:07:06 -0400

From: Michael Nocera

Subject: g/grateful_dead/run_for_the_roses.crd

"Run for the Roses"

from album of the same name by Jerry Garcia Band

1978

transcribed by M Nocera

(intro/chorus)

A D A G

Run, run, run for the roses.

A G D

The quicker it opens the sooner it closes.

A G D

Man, oh man, oh friend of mine,

A G D A

All good things in all good time

(d u d u d u d u)

A B A B A B A B

(verse 1)

E A D A E A

Reach for the sun, catch hold of the moon

E A D A E A

They^?re both too heavy, but what can you do?

F#m E D A E A

Reach for the stars, smack into the sky

E A D

You don^?t want to live but your chicken to die

F#m E D .hold D

Ooh, you're chicken to die

(chorus)

(verse 2)

E A D A E A

Run for the money, caught short on the rent

E A D A E A

Big ideas but the cash is all spent

F#m E D A E A

The trouble with love is its other face

E A D

You just want the cup but you don't want the race

F#m E D. hold D

No, you don't want the race

(chorus)

(verse chord pattern jam)

(chorus chord pattern jam)

(verse 3)

E A D A E A

Reach for the rose, get caught on the briar

E A D A E A

You're warming to love, next thing there's a fire

F#m E D A E A

If you've got the "do-re", I've got the "mi"

E A D

I've got a notion, we're all at sea

F#m E D. .hold D

Yes, we're all at sea

(chorus 2x)..end