Bird Song tab by Grateful Dead

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Song Name: Bird Song
Artist Name: Grateful Dead
My Name: Dan Cotter ([email protected])
Album: Reckoning
Words/Music: Hunter/Garcia

Main Riff in 'Bird Song' by The Grateful Dead
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Chords For 'Bird Song' by The Grateful Dead

Intro/Riff: D7--C-D7--C-D7

D7D7                          Riff
All I heard was something like ...

D7D7                         Riff
All I know she sang a ...

Bb majorBb  FF   C majorC           G+G          D7D7 Riff
Tell me all that you know and I'll ...


If you hear that same sweet song again ...

B minorBm    A augmentedA  G+G   D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G   D MajorD  A augmentedA     G+G      D MajorD
Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't ...

B minorBm      A augmentedA   G+G   D MajorD  A augmentedA  G+G  D MajorD  A augmentedA      G+G
D MajorD  D7D7
Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry ...
da, da.


Just a note, I believe this is the version on "Garcia," in D, early live
versions were also in D MajorD but switched to E...


"Bird Song"
by the Grateful Dead
off of Reckoning

as tabbed by Ryan Izzo
(CD time in parenthesis)

h = hammer on  p = pull off
b = bend     r = release bend
\ = slide    ~ = let ring

Intro and Main Riff:
																														E MajorE
e|--------------------------------|
BB|.------------------------------.|
G+G|---------------------2-----(1)--|
D MajorD|-------0--4---2-0-2----4-0--2---|
A augmentedA|.-2--4---------------------(2)-.|
E MajorE|-(0:00)-------------------------|

Solo:

e|--5p3--------------------------------------------5p3-----------------------|
BB|--------3-3---(2)-(2)----0h2-2--3p2--------------------3-3----2-2---2--3p2-|
G+G|------------not
audible----------------2--4-4------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-(2:19)-----------------------------------------(2:25)---------------------|

e|----------------4-5-4--2---------------------------------------------------|
BB|-2-------------------------it gets too fast
here---------------------------|
G+G|-----2----4-4--------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------(2:32)------------------------------------------------------|

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