Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam - Alive guitar chord

From: "Alastair Harden"

Subject: p/pearl_jam/alive.crd

Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:31:52 +0100

Alive by Pearl Jam

>From the album Ten

By Stone Gossard

(c)1991 Sony Music Entertainment

Transcribed by Alastair Harden

This was inspired by the excellent transcription by Evan Cowan, in

that I went to play it from his tab and was faced with a 16 page

(no joke) transcription of every note in the song... I thought I

would condense it and ended up wholly re-transcribing it in a

busker-friendly fashion. I laboriously typed out the lyrics then

then sat and removed them (diet-OLGA). There is obviously a lead

part, but check Evan's tab for this. It sounds like it's played

on an electro-acoustic 12-string, but that's just a guess.

Chords:These are as I play them and EADGBe

not necessarily the way they A-577655--for verses+break

are played on the CD Asus4-577755

F-x33211

C-x32010

Csus2-x32030

E-022100

G-320033

E A D G B e D-xx0232

B/F#-x 9 9 11 12 x A-x02220--for the chorus

B/D#-11 9 9 11 12 x B-799877

F#/C#-9 9 11 11 11 x Bsus4-799977

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Intro: (after lead)

A Asus4 x6

F C

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Verse 1:

A Asus4 A Asus4

Son, she said have... story for you

A Asus4 A Asus4

What you thought... daddy was...

A Asus4 A Asus4

While... home alone @ age thirteen

A Asus4 A Asus4

Your real... dyin'... sorry you didn't

F C Csus2 F C

see him... glad we talked

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Chorus:

E G D A

I... Oh... I'm... alive hey x2

E G D A

I... Oh... I'm... alive hey oh

B/F# B/D#

--

Verse 2:

A Asus4 A Asus4

While... across a young man's...

A Asus4 A Asus4

She said I'm ready... for...

A Asus4 A Asus4

I can't... anything... this very day

A Asus4 A Asus4

'Cept the look... the look...

F C Csus2 F C

You know where now I can't see...

E G D A

stare. I... I'm still alive hey...

--

Repeat Chorus

--

Break:

B B/D# F#/C# x4

--

Bridgey-middle 8 thing:

A Asus4 A Asus4

Is... she said

A Asus4

...there is

A Asus4

...she said

B Bsus4

...deserve to be?

B Bsus4

...question?

B Bsus4

And if so... if so,

B Bsus4

who answers? Who answers?

--

Repeat Chorus

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Solo:

E G D A xlots--see existing tab for eddie's solo.

--

Then cue the Queen-like drums on "why go"

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There ya go- only 2 pages.

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