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Subject: TAB: John Martyn - Back Down the River
Date: 21 Nov 1994 22:13:14 -0600
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Full credit for this goes to Jared White (whitej@lincoln.ac.nz), so please
feel free to flame him for my typing mistakes.
John K.
Back Down the River - John Martyn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Transcribed by Jared White.
CACGCE tuning.
Capo 1st fret.
4/4 timing, MM = 138.
INTRO:
||-0h3-------3---5-|-3---------0-----|-1---------1---0-|-1-----1---------|
||-------0---------|---0---5-------0-|-------0---------|---0-------0---0-|
||-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
||-4-------4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2-------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0h3-------5p3---|-----3-----3-----|-1---------1-----|-1-----1---------||
|-------0-------0-|---5---5-------0-|-------0-------0-|---0-------0-----||
|-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2---------0-||
|-4-------4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2---0---||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
VERSE:
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|---------------0-|-------0---------|-----------0-----|
||*-----------------|-----0-----0-----|---0-------0---0-|-----0---------0-|
||*-----0---------0-|-----5-------5---|-----5-------5---|-----0-------0---|
||--------------3---|-----3-----------|-----------------|-----3-----------|
||--0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
I know that we're gonna be together you and me
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|---------------0-|-------0---------|-----------0-----|
|-----------------|-----0-----0-----|---0-------0---0-|-----0---------0-|
|-----0---------0-|-----5-------5---|-----5-------5---|-----0-------0---|
|-------------3---|-----3-----------|-----------------|-----3-----------|
|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
For more than a rhyme or two your time belongs to me
|-3---------3---5-|-3---------3-----|-1---------3p1---|---1-------1-----|
|-------0---------|---0---5-------0-|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|
|-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-0h4-----4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
Rowing back down my river Chasing my tail to the sea
|-3---------3-----|---3-------3-----|-1---------1-----|-----1------------||
|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|-----0------------||
|-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-----2---0-*||
|-0h4-----4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2---0---*||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
Rowing back down my river Trying my best to be me
ENDING:
>
||-------3p0h3---3-|-------5p3-----1-|-------1---0-1---|---1---0-1-------|
||-----------0-----|---0-------0-----|-------0-------0-|-----------0---0-|
||-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
||-0h4-----4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2-------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|----0-3---3-------|---5p3-------3---|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-------|
|--------0---0---0-|-------0---5---0-|-----------0---0-|-----------0---0-|
|------4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-/4-------4-------|-4-------4-------|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|---0h3-3-3-------|---0h3-3-3-------|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-----1-|
|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|-----------0---0-|-----------0---0-|
|-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-4-------4-------|-4-------4-------|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-------|
|-----------0-----|-----------0-----|-----------0-----|-----------0---0-|
|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
ritardando...........................................
|----------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------|| Fine.
|----------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------||
|-0--------------|---------------||
LYRICS:
I know that we're gonna be together you and me
For more than a rhyme or two your time belongs to me
Rowing back down my river
Chasing my tail to the sea
Rowing back down my river
Trying my best to be me
Watching your crazy ways and all the lazy days
Digging you more and more the more I see your face
Rowing back down my river
Trying my best to be free
Rowing back down my river
Chasing my tail to the sea
Watching the simple things to help me go along
Loving the notes you bring to help me sing my song
Rowing back down my river
Trying my best to be me
Rowing back down my river
Singing my songs to the sea
I know that we're gonna be together you and me
For more than a time or two your rhymes belong to me
Rowing back down my river
Chasing my tail to the sea
Rowing back down my river
Trying my best to be me
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Subject: TAB: *** John Martyn - Back Down The River ***
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 01:03:48 GMT
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Back Down the River - John Martyn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
from the album "Bless the Weather"
transcribed by Jared White <whitej@lincoln.ac.nz>
Notes: This is an acoustic fingerstyle piece from one of John Martyn's
early albums. If you wanted to play it in the standard open-C (CGCGCE)
you could - it would be no problem to alter the tab. I left the A string
alone because it's easier to change 3 strings than to change 4. The piece
has 2 main themes: the introduction and ending simply being small variations
on the chorus. The ending, in particular, is probably just improvised, but
i've transcribed it anyway - it's not much different from the chorus. There
are no timing marks, but most notes are quavers (except for a few measures in
the chorus) - listen to the recording if you can. Comments, suggestions,
corrections etc. please Email me. Enjoy!
CACGCE tuning.
Capo 1st fret.
4/4 timing, MM = 138.
INTRO:
||-0h3-------3---5-|-3---------0-----|-1---------1---0-|-1-----1---------|
||-------0---------|---0---5-------0-|-------0---------|---0-------0---0-|
||-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
||-4-------4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2-------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0h3-------5p3---|-----3-----3-----|-1---------1-----|-1-----1---------||
|-------0-------0-|---5---5-------0-|-------0-------0-|---0-------0-----||
|-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2---------0-||
|-4-------4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2---0---||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
VERSE:
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|---------------0-|-------0---------|-----------0-----|
||*-----------------|-----0-----0-----|---0-------0---0-|-----0---------0-|
||*-----0---------0-|-----5-------5---|-----5-------5---|-----0-------0---|
||--------------3---|-----3-----------|-----------------|-----3-----------|
||--0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
I know that we're gonna be together you and me
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|---------------0-|-------0---------|-----------0-----|
|-----------------|-----0-----0-----|---0-------0---0-|-----0---------0-|
|-----0---------0-|-----5-------5---|-----5-------5---|-----0-------0---|
|-------------3---|-----3-----------|-----------------|-----3-----------|
|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
For more than a rhyme or two your time belongs to me
CHORUS:
|-3---------3---5-|-3---------3-----|-1---------3p1---|---1-------1-----|
|-------0---------|---0---5-------0-|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|
|-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-0h4-----4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
Rowing back down my river Chasing my tail to the sea
|-3---------3-----|---3-------3-----|-1---------1-----|-----1------------||
|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|-----0------------||
|-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-----2---0-*||
|-0h4-----4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2---0---*||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
Rowing back down my river Trying my best to be me
ENDING:
>
||-------3p0h3---3-|-------5p3-----1-|-------1---0-1---|---1---0-1-------|
||-----------0-----|---0-------0-----|-------0-------0-|-----------0---0-|
||-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
||-0h4-----4-------|-4-------4-------|-0h2-----2-------|-2-------2-------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|----0-3---3-------|---5p3-------3---|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-------|
|--------0---0---0-|-------0---5---0-|-----------0---0-|-----------0---0-|
|------4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-/4-------4-------|-4-------4-------|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|---0h3-3-3-------|---0h3-3-3-------|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-----1-|
|-------0-------0-|-------0-------0-|-----------0---0-|-----------0---0-|
|-----4-------4---|-----4-------4---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-4-------4-------|-4-------4-------|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-----1-|---1---0-1-------|
|-----------0-----|-----------0-----|-----------0-----|-----------0---0-|
|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
ritardando...........................................
|----------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------|| Fine.
|----------------|---------------||
|----------------|---------------||
|-0--------------|---------------||
LYRICS:
I know that we're gonna be together you and me
For more than a rhyme or two your time belongs to me
Rowing back down my river
Chasing my tail to the sea
Rowing back down my river
Trying my best to be me
Watching your crazy ways and all the lazy days
Digging you more and more the more I see your face
Rowing back down my river
Trying my best to be free
Rowing back down my river
Chasing my tail to the sea
Watching the simple things to help me grow along
Loving the notes you bring to help me sing my song
Rowing back down my river
Trying my best to be me
Rowing back down my river
Singing my songs to the sea
I know that we're gonna be together you and me
For more than a time or two your rhymes belong to me
Rowing back down my river
Chasing my tail to the sea
Rowing back down my river
Trying my best to be me
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