• Song:

    Gravedigger

  • Artist:

    Dave Matthews Band

  • Album:

    The Gorge

Here's the chord index... (You hammer the Am chords throughout the song)
Am   Am2   E    D/G   F   G   Dm   C   Bb
0     0    0     0    1   3   1    0   1
1     1    0     3    1   3   3    1   3
2     2    1     2    2   0   2    0   3
2     2    2     0    3   0   0    2   3
0     0    2     0    3   2   0    3   1
0     3    0     2    1   3   0    0   1


Am               Am2
Cyrus Jones, 1810 to 1913. 

F                                         Am
Made his, great grandchildren believe you could live to a hundred & three.

  Am                             Am2
Well, a hundred & three is forever when you're just a little kid

F                     Am
So, Cyrus Jones lived forever.


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Am
Gravedigger

              Am2
When you dig my grave.

                  E
Could you make it shallow.

        Am    Am2      D/G
So that I can feel the rain.

     Am
Gravedigger.
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Am                Am2
Muriel Stonewall, 1903 to 1954.

 F                                          Am
Lost both of her babies, in the second great war.

               Am                                      Am2  
Now you should never have to watch as your only children are lowered in the 


ground.

   F                                 Am
You should, never have to bury your own babies.
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CHORUSx1 (Add a few extra quickly timed hammers on the Am to go into the bridge.)
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Dm             F        C    G A
Ring around the rosie.

Dm            F         C    G A
Pocket full of posey.

Dm       F       C     G A
Ashes to ashes.

Dm     F      C           G
              We all fall down.
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CHORUSx1
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Am                  Am2
Little Mikey Carson, 67 to 75.

         F                              Am
Rode his, bike like the devil until the day he died.

             Am                                  Am2               
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeez, oh, well.

F        Am
1940 to 1990---2!

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CHORUSx1
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(He changes his singing pattern for this version of the chorus)

Am                           Am2
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave. 

                  E
Could you make it shallow.

       Am              Am2        D/G
So that I can feel the rain, I can feel the rain, oh. 

Am                         Am2
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave.

                  E (Let ring)
Could you make it shallow.

        Am   Am2    D/G
So that I can feel the rain.

Am         Am2  F  E
Gravegigger.

Am         Am2   F  E

Am         Am2   F (Let Ring)
Gravedigger


-That's all there is to it. Pretty easy song to play. The other chords were a bit
mixed up. I admit I don't know the names of all of them, but I do know how to play
them, so if you look at the little chord index I put in, this should should 100% correct.-
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