MY FIRST LOVER,  Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings



This is mainly a banjo tab.

I couldn't find any tabs of this song so I decided to make one. Its one of the songs I 
wanted to learn when I first started playing banjo.
I hope this helps some people.
If you have any improvements to make, please feel free to do so.
I haven't tabbed Dave Rawlings's guitar playing in the song, just given some chords.  
Banjo is played claw hammer style.

Guitar has a capo on 2 and is basically just a repeat of A and C (or what is actually B 
and D because of capo) with a bit of stompin' beat to it.


~ my first lover    my first lover
 a    c   a   c   a   c    a   c



Banjo Tab:

Capo on 4.   Standard tuning except for the 5th string which needs to be tuned up to A.

                          My First Lover-----------

 |---intro---|            |---------repeat--------------------|
D|-0----0---0-----0-(0)-0-----0--0--0-----0-(0)-0-------------|
B|-0--3-0---0-0h3-3--0--0-----0--0--0-0h3-3--0--0-------------|
G|-0----0---0-0h3-3--0--0-(0)-0--0--0-0h3-3--0--0-------------|
D|-0----0-3-0-----0--0--0--3-(3)-0--0-----0--0--0-------------|
A|-----------------0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0------------|


Little instrumental bit after chorus, and the same for the end of the song:


D|------0-0-----0----0---------|
B|----3-1-1-1h3-3--0-0---------|
G|--------0-0h3-3--0-0---------|
D|-0------0-----0----0---------|
A|---------0-----0-----0-------|


Tabbed by Josh
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