Nickel Creek

Nickel Creek - Sweet Afton lead guitar tab

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Date: 8/8/01; 10:58:23 AM

From: "Bo Frazer"

Subject: Nickel Creek "Sweet Afton"

SWEET AFTON

by Nickel Creek

words by Robert Burns, music by Chris Thile

charted by Bo Frazer

Riffs added by Brian Garback

Notes: All lines have 5 sets of 3/4 beats,

except chorus line 3 which has 7 such sets.

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Intro, between verses chords = half of verse

MAIN RIFF. Repeat with varying slides and pull offs and things.

E|-9-11-12~--11----------------9---------------------------------|

B|-------------12~-----9-10-12---12~------9/10-9-----------------|

G|-------------------11--------------9-11--------11-9-----9-11-9-|

D|----------------------------------------------------9-11-------|

A|---------------------------------------------------------------|

E|---------------------------------------------------------------|

Verse 1:

E B A E E

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,

C#m B A E E

Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise;

My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,

Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

Verse 2:

Thou stock dove whose echo resounds thro' the glen,

Ye wild whistly blackbirds in yon thorny den,

Thou green crested lapwing, thy screaming forbear,

I charge you, disturb not my slumbering fair.

Chorus:

C#m B A E E

How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills,

F#m F#m A B B

Far mark'd with the courses of clear winding rills;

G#m A G# C#m B A E

There daily I wander as noon rises high, oooh,

F#m F#m A B B

My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye.

riff at 2:57

E|-9-11-12~--14---/17-16-12---------------------------------|

B|-------------12----------12--9-10-9~----------------------|

G|--------------------------------------9-11-..same-as-intro|

D|----------------------------------------------------------|

A|----------------------------------------------------------|

E|----------------------------------------------------------|

Verse 3:

How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below,

Where, wild in the woodlands, the primroses blow;

There oft, as mild evening sweeps over the lea,

The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me.

Chorus:

Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides,

And winds by the cot where my Mary resides;

How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave,

As, gathering sweet flowerets, she stems thy clear wave.

Verse 4:

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,

Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays;

My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,

Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dreams.

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