• Song:

    Dire Wolf

  • Artist:

    Grateful Dead

  • Album:

    Workingman's Dead (Rhin...

E                         D                  A
In the timbers of Fennario the wolves are running 'round.
D                                                         E
The winter was so hard and cold froze ten feet 'neath the ground.
E            D    E        A                 D    E - D  D            A
Don't murder me.  I beg of you, don't murder me.  Please don't murder me.

  E                      G                         D
I sat down to my supper. 'twas a bottle of red whiskey.
                                              A               E
I said my prayers and went to bed. That's the last they saw of me.
             D   E        A          C#7   F#m   E      D            A
Don't murder me. I beg of you, don't murder me. Please don't murder me.

     F#m          E              A       G            D
When I awoke, the dire wolf, six hundred pounds of sin, was grinning at my.
                                 E                D   E        A
window. All I said was 'come on in.' don't murder me. I beg of you, don't
C#7    F#m  E-D   D            A
murder me. Please don't murder me.

       E                            D               A
In the backwash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire,
D                                                            E
The dire wolf collect his due while the boys sing 'round the fire.
             D  E        A          C#7    F#m  E    D            A
Don't murder me. I beg of you, don't murder me. Please don't murder me.

             E   D        A          C#7   F#m  E    D              A
Don't murder me. I beg of you, don't murder me. Please don't murder me
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