Chords with lyrics
"Minstrel From Gault"
(Richie Havens)
Album: Resume (The Best of Richie Havens)
Transcribed by: me!
Email: [email protected] or/ above address.
Note: I've transcribed the song using standard tuning.
But Richie uses open D.
For more info on Richie's tuning and playing style look here-
http://members.tripod.com/~Coolerking/guitar/richie.htm
Got the lyrics by listening to the cd....there are a couple of parts which
I couldn't figure out. If anyone has the correct lyrics, please post.
Intro: D-C-Bb-G-F-E-Eb-D
^2nd guitar 'fill' comes in and continues....
D-C-Bb-G-F-E-Eb-D
D MajorD 
C majorC
Minstrel came down ...
Bb majorBb
with scars of ...
G+G 
A augmentedA 
B minorBm
some of them ...
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
some of them ...
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
some of them ...
Bb majorBb C majorC D MajorD
yet some ...
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
It was told ..
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
It was told ...
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
It was told so ...
Bb majorBb C majorC D MajorD
may not be told ...
(2nd guitar fill over intro chords - once)
D MajorD C majorC
Soldier came ...
Bb majorBb
with silence in his...
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
tore down ...
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
when fire ..
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
tore down many ...,
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm
when the previous staff...
Bb majorBb G+G Bb majorBb C majorC D MajorD
knowing that through sins...earth bell, ...
Man came down from Cyanide....
(I give up here....or else everything is going to start looking like
gibberish! ;O)
At the very end of the songs where RH goes into the super fast strum, its
the same intro chords with 2nd guitar filling in.
**************corrections/improvements welcome!!!!!**************
