• Song:

    Liferaft

  • Artist:

    Bedhead

  • Album:

    WhatFunLifeWas

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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 Edown (022100@1)to D)

	chords (intro and verses)
	C (x32010@1)- x32010
	D (xx0232@1)- 000232
	Dm- (xx0231@1)000231
	F (133211@1)- xx3211
	G (320003@1)- x20003 (don't play low Ebecause (022100@1)of tuning)

	chords (bridge)
	Bb- (x1333x@1)x13331
	C (x32010@1)- x35553
	Eb- (x43121@3)x68886
	F (133211@1)- 333xxx

	(figure 1a) - the following line is played at beginning
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-----------------------0-------------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-----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)
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-----------------------0----0--------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-----0--0-----0---2--3----3----3--2--3-----------------|
	--0--------0-------------------------------------------|


	(figure 2) - this line is played during the bridge...
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	--------1--3-------------------------------------------|
	--3--3--------2--0--0-----------------0--2-------------|
	-----------------------1--1--0--1--3-------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|

	(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....
	--------------------------------------------|

	---------------------------------|
	--------------1------------------|
	-----0---------------0--0---0----|  repeat several times
	--3-----3--3-----3---------------|
	---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|

	***********  how it all goes together *************

	(INTRO)
	(play figure 1a by itself, and then play figure 1b during
	 the Dmand (xx0231@1)Gchords (320003@1)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 (xx0232@1)               G (320003@1)the bed at night is aliferaft (x02210@1)               D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)in the ocean of the dark
          D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)i hang my hands over the sides
            D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)and pray that god knows why
         C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)drifting somewhere in the black
         F (133211@1)                      G (320003@1)feeling (low?) 'neath the blanket
                C (x32010@1)           G (320003@1)and the weight of the mattress
            F (133211@1)             G (320003@1)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 (x1333x@1)            F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)on many successive nights i've been miserable
          Eb (x43121@3)               Bb (x1333x@1)       F (133211@1)give one (sense?) to sense the invisible
          F (133211@1)i know you're in this room

	being (? ? ?)


	(SOLO: play figure three over repeated chord
	 progression Dm-G...)


	(VERSE)
	    D (xx0232@1)               G (320003@1)the bed at night is alifeboat (x02210@1)                 D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)athrone (x02210@1)off which you can (?) from
                  D (xx0232@1)                 G (320003@1)i hang my hands and feet over the sides
            D (xx0232@1)                           G (320003@1)      D (xx0232@1)and pray to the space of what can never be known


        ....questions, comments and corrections
	    to jeffnmoe@mcs.com

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