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Let It Grow Chords by Grateful Dead

Let It Grow chords by Grateful Dead

Guitar chords with lyrics

Let it grow


   10   8            10   8    	        12   10   	      6 5
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     I		       C		  D(I)		    A 7

  9     6    	    9   7		 7   5		    9   7
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    II               Bmin 7 		  A(I) 		    III
						    (some kind of E chord)
    9   7	      7   5		 7   5		    9   7
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     B      	     D(II)		A(II)     	   Emin
    5   3	      4   2	       5     2
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   C(II)	     Bmin		 IV

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   C(III)	     G(II)  		D(III)		     V

      7 6	   10     7   		 7   5     	    5   3
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     VI      	      VII	        VIII		    IX
			       (A suspended something) (same thing with G)

    5   3
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   G(I)
 I     		I			           II		II
Morning comes, she follows the ...
 I		I				      II	 II
Like the sun, her song is the latch ...
 I	     C(I)
See the sun ...
 I	      C(I)	 	  Bmin 7  D(I)
Silver beads ...
 D(I)  		                    D(I)		      A(I)	 A(I)
She comes from the town where she's ...
 A 7				  A7       		    D(I)        D(I)
She's brown as the bank where she ...,
 D(I)			   D(I)                    Bmin 7
She bears it away with the love ...
 I  	      I   	   C(I)	  	  III
Let it flow, let it flow...
 I		        I   				  II
'Round and 'round, the cut of ...
 I		      I				    II
Seasons 'round, the bushels ..
 I	       C(I)
Broken ground, open ..
 I	       C(I)		      Bmin 7   D(I)
To the stream, black ...
 D(I)			      D(I)			 A(I)	  A(I)
The ploughman is broad as the ...
 A 7		 	  A 7			   D(I)	    D(I)
As he dances the circular ...
 D(I)				   D(I)				   Bmin 7
That the work of his days measures ....
 I	     I   	  II    	III
Let it grow, let it grow...

	-REFRAIN-
III   	       B            D(II)  A(II) Emin
What shall we say, ..
C(II)	             G(I)   Bmin
As well to count the ...
III   B	            D(II)    A(II)    Emin
Water bright as the sky ...
D(II)			              A(II)
Its name is on the earth ...
   G(I)		      IV	       Emin	D(II)
It will not speak but stand ...
C(II)  G(I)   Bmin    Emin
Listen to the ...
I     I	    C(I)
I AM, I AM, I AM
  III
I AM.

	-INSTRUMENTAL (follows chords of first verse once through)
			*then*
I	       I	                	 II		II
So it goes, we make what we ..
I		      I			     II
Nothing more than the love ...
I		C(I)
Seasons 'round, ...
I	     C(II)		   Bmin 7   D(I)
Up and down, as they ...
D(I)		C(III)    G(II)    D(III)(play twice as long as D(I),
Rise and fall.				then continue the pattern of
					the last three chords for a
					while until)...

I  I  I  II (repeat three measures of I, one measure II another while
until) ...


V   VI   VII, V   VI   VII, V   VI   VII   VII (jam on this for awhile, then)


VIII    A(II)    IX    G(II)  (repeat 4X)

III	III

	-REFRAIN-

The final jam is just like the first, only it starts from the I  I  I  II
part, ending with a slow fade on the III chord.

Sorry for making you read and print this twice.

			CHINACAT

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