#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:59:17 -1000 From: Harlan L Thompson Subject: bluebird (Buffalo Springfield) BLUEBIRD- Buffalo Springfield TUNING: D A D G B D D G G/B D Listen to my bluebird laugh G G/B D She can't tell you why G G/B D Deep within her heart you see C G/B D C G/B D C G/B D She knows only cryin', just cryin', yeah There she sits, a lofty perch Strangest color blue Flying is forgotten now She thinks only of you, just you, awww D So get all those blues, must be a thousand hues C G/B And each is differently used, you just know D You sit there mesmorized by the depth of her eyes C G/B If you could catagorize, she got soul C G/B C G/B D She got soul, she got soul, she got soul RIFF 1 RIFF 2 (during lyrics) Do you think she loves you Do you think at all? SOLO (stop, RIFF 3, stop again, begin with banjo) Soon she's going to fly away Sadness is her own Fill herself a bath of tears And go home, and go home RIFF 1: RIFF 2: (bass notes with playing D) D ---0--0--0--0--------------------- ----------------| B --0--0--0--0---------------------- ----------------| G -5--5--5--5--5/2-0h2-0------------ ----------------| D -----------------------3p0---0---- -0------------0-| A ---------------------------3------ -------0h3--3---| D ---------------------------------- ---0------------| RIFF 3: (strum) D -0-----------0-------------0-------| B ---2h3p2-------2-----------1-------| G ---------2-------2-0-------0-------| D ---------------------4--0--2-------| A ---------------------------3-------| D -----------------------------------| NOTE: This is very rough. Any improvements are welcome. It's not immediately obvious that the song is in DADGBD, but I read Crosby mentioning that as an aside in an interview. I didn't include the chords because I'm not at all sure about the figurings, there being so many slightly different ways to play D, G and so forth. There are so many overdubbed guitars it's hard to tell what's going on.