Gravedigger Chords & Tabs
I havnt been able to find any correct tabs of this song so here it is. Ive been looking
at lads and loads of video’s of dave playin this song and the tab is 99,9% correct.
When playin this song, touch the string chair with your strumming han so you get a dry
kinda sound that doesnt articulate the notes expecially not the high once. Hope you enjoy it.
Cords:
Am = x02210
Am/G = 3x220x
E = 022000
G = 320003
Dsus2/F# = 200230
D = x00231
F = 133211
F? = 13xxxx
C = x32010
Intro:
Am Am/G
E Am
G Dsus2/F#
Am Am/G
Cysrus Jones, 1810 to 1913
F
Made his great-grandchildren believe
Am
He could live to be a hundred and three
Am Am/G
A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid
F Am
so cyrus jones lived forever.
Chorus:
Am
Gravedigger,
Am/G
when you dig my grave,
E
could you make it shallow
Am G Dsus2/F#
so that i can feel the rain
Am
gravedigger
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/dave_matthews_band/gravedigger_tab_ver_4.html ]
Am Am/G
Muriel Stonewall, 1903 to 1954
F Am
lost both of her babies in the second great war
Am
now you should never have to watch your
Am/G
only children lowered in the ground
F Am
you shoould never have to bury you own babies
Chorus:
C part:
D F C G F?
ring around the rosey
D F C G F?
pocket full of posey
D F C G F?
ashes to ashes
D F C G F?
we all fall down
chorus:
Am Am/G
Little Mikey carson, '67 to '75
F Am
he wrote his bike like the devil until the day he died
Am Am/G F
when he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeze
Am
oh, 1940 to 1992
Chorus x 3
at the end theres a thing where he plays: Am Am/G F E