BEDHEAD - "Liferaft" Tablature
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Subject: TAB: 'Liferaft' by Bedhead
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:32:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "jeffnmoe"
'Liferaft' by Bedhead
from the album 'Whatfunlifewas'
(note: if anyone knows the complete lyrics, please
send them to me at jeffnmoe@mcs.com....are there
any other Bedhead fans reading this newsgroup?)
dropped-D tuning (tune low E down to D)
chords (intro and verses)
C - x32010
D - 000232
Dm - 000231
F - xx3211
G - x20003 (don't play low E because of tuning)
chords (bridge)
Bb - x13331
C - x35553
Eb - x68886
F - 333xxx
(figure 1a) - the following line is played at beginning
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-----0--0-----0---2--3----------0--0-----0---2--3------
--0--------0-----------------0--------0----------------
(figure 1b) - the following line is played during the
verses (only over Dm-G or D-G chords)
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-----0--0-----0---2--3----3----3--2--3-----------------
--0--------0-------------------------------------------
(figure 2) - this line is played during the bridge...
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--------1--3-------------------------------------------
--3--3--------2--0--0-----------------0--2-------------
-----------------------1--1--0--1--3-------------------
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(figure 3) - this solo is played after the bridge
-------------------1--0---------------------
--3---3---3---3----------3--0--1--3--1------
----2---2---2---2-----------------------2--- repeat 4x and
-------------------------------------------- then play....
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--------------1------------------
-----0---------------0--0---0---- repeat several times
--3-----3--3-----3---------------
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*********** how it all goes together *************
(INTRO)
(play figure 1a by itself, and then play figure 1b during
the Dm and G chords in the following chord progression:
Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-C-G-F-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G)
(VERSE: figure 1b is played over D-G chords during verses)
D G
the bed at night is a liferaft
D G
in the ocean of the dark
D G
i hang my hands over the sides
D G
and pray that god knows why
C G
drifting somewhere in the black
F G
feeling (low?) 'neath the blanket
C G
and the weight of the mattress
F G
the mistress of the sheets
(BRIDGE: play following chord progression using
bridge chord shapes shown above:
Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F-Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F
Second guitar plays figure two (shown above) over chords)
Bb F C
on many successive nights i've been miserable
Eb Bb F
give one (sense?) to sense the invisible
F
i know you're in this room
being (? ? ?)
(SOLO: play figure three over repeated chord
progression Dm-G...)
(VERSE)
D G
the bed at night is a lifeboat
D G
a throne off which you can (?) from
D G
i hang my hands and feet over the sides
D G D
and pray to the space of what can never be known
....questions, comments and corrections
to jeffnmoe@mcs.com
This musical interpretation has been removed due to a legal threat from Moses & Singer LLP,
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