Bass tabs
Tuning: Drop D (D A D G)
Key: D
Difficulty: Intermediate
BLUEBIRD (Bassline)
As recorded by Buffalo Springfield
(From the 1967 Album BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD AGAIN)
Words and Music by Stephen Stills
Gtr I (D A D G) - 'Bruce Palmer - Bass Guitar w/ Dropped D Tuning - DADG'
Intro: 1st & 2nd Verses:
Q=132
4/4
Gtr I (Bass Guitar w/ Dropped D Tuning - DADG)
W +W Q. E +Q. E +E Q E +E Q E
G|----------|------------||-----------------|-------------------|
D|----------|------------||o----------------|-------------------|
A|----------|------------||o------2-(2)---5-|-(5)---------------|
D|-0--------|-(0)--------||--5--------------|-----0--0-(0)-0--4-|
Q. E +Q. E +E Q E +E Q E Q. E +Q. E +E Q E +E Q E
G|----------------|-------------------|----------------|--------------------|
D|----------------|-------------------|----------------|--------------------|
A|------2-(2)---5-|-(5)---------------|------2-(2)---5-|-(5)-------------0--|
D|-5--------------|-----0--0-(0)-0--4-|-5--------------|-----0--0-(0)-0-----|
Q. E +E E Q W E Q E +H W
G|-----------------|----------|---------------|------|
D|-----------------|----------|---------------|------|
A|-3----2-(2)-0----|----------|-3-3-----------|------|
D|--------------5--|-0--------|------5-(5)----|-0----|
1. 2.
E Q E +H W Q Q Q Q Q. E +E Q E
G|---------------|----------|--------------||------------------|
D|---------------|----------|-------------o||------------------|
A|-3-3-----------|----------|-------------o||------------5--5--|
D|------5-(5)----|-0--------|-0--0--0--0---||-0----7-(7)-------|
Chorus:
Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E
G|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
D|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
A|------------5--5-||------------5--5-|------------5--5-|------------5--5--|
D|-0----7-(7)------||-0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)-------|
Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E Q. E +H Q. E +H
G|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|---------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|---------------|
A|-----------------|-----------------|-3-------------|-3-------------|
D|-0----0-(0)-0--0-|-0----0-(0)-0--0-|------5-(5)----|------5-(5)----|
Q. E +H Q. E +E Q E Q. E +H Q. E +E Q E
G|---------------|-----------------|---------------|------------------|
D|---------------|-----------------|---------------|------------------|
A|-3-------------|------------5--5-|-3-------------|------------5--5--|
D|------5-(5)----|-0----7-(7)------|------5-(5)----|-0----7-(7)-------|
Interlude:
Q. E +H Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E
G|---------------||------------------|-----------------|-------------------||
D|---------------||o-----------------|-----------------|------------------o||
A|-3-------------||o------------5--5-|------------5--5-|------------5--5--o||
D|------5-(5)----||--0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)--------||
Bridge:
Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E
G||------------------|-----------------|
D||o-----------------|-----------------|
A||o------------5--5-|------------5--5-|
D||--0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)------|
Q. E +E Q E 3x Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E
G|------------------||-----------------|------------------||
D|-----------------o||-----------------|------------------||
A|------------5--5-o||------------5--5-|------------5--5--||
D|-0----7-(7)-------||-0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)-------||
Guitar Solo:
Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E Q. E +E Q E 3x
G||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
D||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------o||
A||o------------5--5-|------------5--5-|------------5--5-|------------5--5-o||
D||--0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)------|-0----7-(7)-------||
Breakdown: 3rd Verse:
Wx9 Q. E +Q. E +E Q E +E Q E
G|------------||----------------|-------------------|
D|------------||----------------|-------------------|
A|------------||------2-(2)---5-|-(5)---------------|
D|------------||-5--------------|-----0--0-(0)-0--4-|
Q. E +Q. E +E Q E +E Q E Q. E +Q. E +E Q E +E Q E
G|----------------|-------------------|----------------|--------------------|
D|----------------|-------------------|----------------|--------------------|
A|------2-(2)---5-|-(5)---------------|------2-(2)---5-|-(5)-------------0--|
D|-5--------------|-----0--0-(0)-0--4-|-5--------------|-----0--0-(0)-0-----|
Interlude:
Q. E +E E Q W Q. E +E E Q W Wx9
G|-----------------|----------|-----------------||----------|--------||
D|-----------------|----------|-----------------||----------|--------||
A|-3----2-(2)-0----|----------|-3----2-(2)-0----||----------|--------||
D|--------------5--|-0--------|--------------5--||-0--------|--------||
Outro:
Q. E +Q. E +E Q E +E Q E Q. E +Q. E
G|----------------|-------------------|----------------|
D|----------------|-------------------|----------------|
A|------2-(2)---5-|-(5)---------------|------2-(2)---5-|
D|-5--------------|-----0--0-(0)-0--4-|-5--------------|
+E Q E +E Q E Q. E +E E Q W
G|-------------------|-----------------|------*|
D|-------------------|-----------------|------*|
A|-(5)-------------0-|-3----2-(2)-0----|------*|
D|-----0--0-(0)-0----|--------------5--|-0----*|
Lyrics:
Listen to my bluebird laugh.
She can't tell you why.
Deep within her heart, you see,
She knows only crying.
Just crying.
There she sits, a lofty perch.
Strangest color blue.
Flying is forgotten now.
Thinks only of you.
Just you.
Oh yeah...
So, get all those blues,
Must be a thousand hues.
And be just differently used.
You just know.
You sit there mesmerized
By the depth of her eyes
That you can't categorize.
She got soul.
She got soul.
She got soul.
She got soul!
Do you think she loves you?
Do you think at all?
Soon she's going to fly away.
Sadness is her own.
Give herself a bath of tears
And go home, and go home.
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Duration 🏷Legend
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th;
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted;
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests.
| (n) - note tied to previous
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