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Bird Song tab by Grateful Dead

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Song Name: Bird Song
Artist Name: Grateful Dead
My Name: Dan Cotter (dcotter@uky.campus.mci.net)
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

D7                                                    Riff
All I heard was something like ...

D7                                                  Riff
All I know she sang a ...

Bb   F      C                     G                    D7  Riff
Tell me all that you know and I'll ...


If you hear that same sweet song again ...

Bm        A    G     D   A    G     D   A         G            D
Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't ...

Bm           A      G     D   A    G   D    A           G
D   D7
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 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
e|--------------------------------|
B|.------------------------------.|
G|---------------------2-----(1)--|
D|-------0--4---2-0-2----4-0--2---|
A|.-2--4---------------------(2)-.|
E|-(0:00)-------------------------|

Solo:

e|--5p3--------------------------------------------5p3-----------------------|
B|--------3-3---(2)-(2)----0h2-2--3p2--------------------3-3----2-2---2--3p2-|
G|------------not
audible----------------2--4-4------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-(2:19)-----------------------------------------(2:25)---------------------|

e|----------------4-5-4--2---------------------------------------------------|
B|-2-------------------------it gets too fast
here---------------------------|
G|-----2----4-4--------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------(2:32)------------------------------------------------------|

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