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Doc Watson - “Deep river blues“ Guitar tab

Doc Watson guitar tab and guitar video lesson for Deep river blues. In this video you will hear Troy playing and singing Deep River Blues on the dobro guitar. Related pages are Deep river blues chords, Greenville trestle high chords, Mississippi heavy water blues chords, Beaumont rag tabs, Tennessee stud chords. See all Doc Watson tabs. Submit corrected and missing guitar tab here.

Thanks Bill & Will for getting this one started, It's one of my favorites too.
This is from memory, so it could be a little off. Learned it over 25 
years ago and it's still the first song I whip out when asked to play 
something. Here's a little more detail.

Position your fingers like so:

1-Ring
2-Middle
3-Index
4-Thumb
5-Thumb
6-Thumb

This is the cord shape you want to start with (E7). Just bounce 
between the 6th and 4th strings with your thumb for now:

-7-
-5-
-7-
-6-
-0-
-0-

Then move the same cord shape down one fret for 4 notes, and back up 
again for 4, keep bouncing till you're ready to start.


It looks like this tabbed out. Mute strings 4,5,and 6 with the heal 
of your palm against the bridge. This stays fairly constant 
throughout the song and gives the effect of two different guitars 
playing.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------6-----------------6------------------5----------------------5--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--0-----------------0-----------------0---------------------0-------------



--7------------7------------------7---6---------------6----------------6--
-----------5-----------------5------------------5------------------5------
------7-----------------7------------------6-------------------6----------
-----------6-----------------6------------------5------------------5------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--0-----------------0-----------------0--------------------0--------------

(E7) Let it rain---------------------(E flat 6) let ...


-7p0---3/4---0---------0---3p2--------0--------0--------------------------
-----------------0h2---------------------0h2------------------------------
-------3/4---0------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------2-------------2---------2------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-0-------------------------0----------0-----------0-----------------------

(E7) Let it rain--------------(A) a ...


----------------0-----------------3b-----0--2------------3--3b--0-------0-
----0-----2-----------0-----2------------------0------3------------0h2----
----------------------------------------------------2---------------------
-2-----------2-----------2------------2-----------1-----------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------0-----------0-----------0------------0---------0-------------------

(E) I've got them deep-------------- river ---- (B7) blues


--7------------7------------------7------6------------6----------------6--
-----------5-----------------5-------------------5-----------------5------
------7-----------------7--------------------6-----------------6----------
-----------6-----------------6-------------------5-----------------5------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--0-----------------0--------------------0-----------------0--------------

(E7) Let that rain----------------------(E flat 6) drive ...


-7p0---3/4---0---------0---3p2------0----------0------------------3b--0---
-----------------0h2---------------------0h2------------0--2--0-----------
-------3/4---0------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------2-------------2---------2------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------1--------------
-0-------------------------0--------0-------------0--4--------------------

(E7) Let that river just (A) sweep me along--(E) I've got them (B7) deep


--------0-------0-------0-------0---------0--
-0h2p0---------------------------------------
-----------0h1-----0h1-----0h1---------------
-------------2----------2--------------2-----
---------------------------------------------
--------0----------0---------0-----0------0--

-river (E) blues


That's it for the verses, here's a nice way to finish it.

-0---------------------------------4---------3---------2-----0-----------
-------------------------------------------------------------0-----------
------------------------------3/4-----4---3-----3---2-----2--1-----------
--------------------1--2-------------------------------------2-----------
-------0--1--2--4--------------------------------------------2-----------
-0--4---------------------0 (let ring)-----------------------0-----------

-bl