Main Theme:
1st: make an open postion C major chord and move it up
to the 8th fret.. and let your pinky finger do
most of the fret work.
2nd: place your middle finger on the 8th fret / 5th
string or A string & your put ringer finger on the
8th fret / 2nd string or B string.
|---------------7-----10--8-p7------------------------|
|---8----h10-------------------10---8--h10-p8----8----|
|.----0-------------0----------------0-------0--0-0--.|
|.-----9------9--------------------------------0-----.|
|---10------------------------------8--8---8----------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
^ 1st part ^ 2nd part
Theme 2: Theme 3:
|-----p-----p-----||----------5-----------5------------|
|----3-1---1-0----||----8-------8---8-------8---8------|
|--0-----0-----0--||------0-------0---0-------0---0----|
|-----------------||--0-----0-----------0-----------0--|
|-----------------||-----------------------------------|
|-----------------||-----------------------------------|
Main Theme (x2):
Verse 1 (with Main Theme):
G F
Black cat crossed our path on little fog feet
G F
There's crows flying beside my window
G F
We left superstition on the roadside a few cities ago
G F
They spent our souls, maybe, but they didn't take our
Em D C Am (0/5 2/5 3/5) C
smiles
Chorus:
[G F C w/ Theme 2 (x3)] C Eb (see Transition Riff)
We listen,
[G F C w/ Theme 2 (x3)] C Eb D F (see Transition Riff)
We shake, the radio
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/w/widespread_panic/pilgrims_tab.html ]
Transition Riff: * stop here first time
|--------------------------------------|
|------1--------4--------3--------6----|
|--------0--------0--------0--------0--|
|----2--------5--------4--------7------|
|--3--------6--------5--------8--------|
|--------------------------------------|
C Eb D F
(slide up and down the neck in open C position)
Verse 2:
There's a sweet corn princess smiling
through the words on the glass
Remember we stopped for tamales last time?
But now the lights from the town are fading with radio
There's another song playing, and we can hear it
in the wind outside
Chorus (with Theme 2 and transition riff):
[G F C (x3)] C Eb
We listen, Pilgrims
[G F C (x3)] C Eb
We shake, to the radio
[G F C (x3)] C Eb
We listen,
[G F C (x3)] C Eb D F
to the radio
[G Eb B C Bb A w/ Theme 3 (x4)] (x2)
Solo (C major) over 1 time through verse chords
Verse 3 (with Main Theme):
Little black kitty crossed our path wearing little fog feet
And the crows they're just drifters through my window
The late night city's lights are growing sharper
And I hear another song, I see it pouring
from the look in your eyes
Chorus (with Theme 2 and transition riff):
[G F C (x3)] C Eb
We listen,
[G F C (x3)] C Eb
We shake, to the radio
[G F C (x3)] C Eb
Pilgrims, we listen, we shake
[G F C (x3)] C Eb D F
to the radio, to the radio
[G Eb B C Bb A w/ Theme 3 (x4)] (x2)
[G Eb B C Bb A w/ Theme 1 (x2)] ad nauseam-|Mike's Solo
Solo to last part with Cmajor & penatonic scales along with
related scales and many, many embellishments (according to
Mike he doesn't know any scales).
note: fractions are fret number over string number
