• Song:

    Gravedigger

  • Artist:

    Dave Matthews Band

  • Album:

    The Gorge

Here's the chord index... (You hammer the Am chords throughout the song)
Am (x02210@1) Am2   E (022100@1)  D/G (300232@1) F (133211@1) G (320003@1) Dm (xx0231@1) C (x32010@1) Bb0 (x1333x@1)    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 (x02210@1)             Am2
Cyrus Jones, 1810 to 1913.

F (133211@1)                                       AmMade (x02210@1)his, great grandchildren believe you could live to a hundred & three.

Am (x02210@1)                           Am2
Well, a hundred & three is forever when you're just a little kid

F (133211@1)                   AmSo, (x02210@1)Cyrus Jones lived forever.

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AmGravedigger (x02210@1)
Am2
When you dig my grave.

ECould (022100@1)you make it shallow.

Am (x02210@1)  Am2      D/GSo (300232@1)that I can feel the rain.

AmGravedigger. (x02210@1)----

Am (x02210@1)              Am2
Muriel Stonewall, 1903 to 1954.

F (133211@1)                                        AmLost (x02210@1)both of her babies, in the second great war.

Am (x02210@1)                                    Am2  
Now you should never have to watch as your only children are lowered in the

ground.

F (133211@1)                               AmYou (x02210@1)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 (xx0231@1)           F (133211@1)      C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A
Ring around the rosie.

Dm (xx0231@1)          F (133211@1)       C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A
Pocket full of posey.

Dm (xx0231@1)     F (133211@1)     C (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A
Ashes to ashes.

Dm (xx0231@1)   F (133211@1)    C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)             We all fall down.
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CHORUSx1
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Am (x02210@1)                Am2
Little Mikey Carson, 67 to 75.

F (133211@1)                            AmRode (x02210@1)his, bike like the devil until the day he died.

Am (x02210@1)                                Am2               
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeez, oh, well.

F (133211@1)      Am1940 (x02210@1)to 1990---2!

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

Am (x02210@1)                         Am2
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave.

ECould (022100@1)you make it shallow.

Am (x02210@1)            Am2        D/GSo (300232@1)that I can feel the rain, I can feel the rain, oh.

Am (x02210@1)                       Am2
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave.

E (Let ring)
Could you make it shallow.

Am (x02210@1) Am2    D/GSo (300232@1)that I can feel the rain.

Am (x02210@1)       Am2  F (133211@1)EGravegigger. (022100@1)
Am (x02210@1)       Am2   F (133211@1)E (022100@1)Am (x02210@1)       Am2   F(Let (133211@1)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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