Liferaft

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:32:06 
-0500 (CDT)
From: "jeffnmoe"

            from the album 
'Whatfunlifewas'

        (note: if anyone knows the 
complete lyrics, please
        send them to me at *....are 
there

        dropped-D tuning (tune low E
 down to D)

        chords (intro and verses)
        C  - x32010
        D  - 000232
        Dm - 000231
        F  - xx3211
        G  - x20003 (don't play low 
E because of tuning)

        chords (bridge)
        Bb - x13331
        C  - x35553
        Eb - x68886
        F  - 333xxx

        (figure 1a) - the following line is played at beginning

        --------------------------
        --------------------------
        -----------------------0--
        --------------------------
        -----0--0-----0---2--3----
        --0--------0--------------

 |-----------------------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 
 |------0--0-----0---2--3------| 
 |---0--------0----------------| 


        (figure 1b) - the following 
line is played during the
        verses (only over Dm-G or 
D-G chords)

        --------------------------
        --------------------------
        -----------------------0--
        --------------------------
        -----0--0-----0---2--3----
        --0--------0--------------

 |-----------------------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 
 |--0--------------------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 
 |3----3--2--3-----------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 


        (figure 2) - this line is pl
        --------------------------
        --------1--3--------------
        --3--3--------2--0--0-----
        -----------------------1--
        --------------------------
        --------------------------
  ayed during the bridge...
 |-----------------------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 
 |------------0--2-------------| 
 |1--0--1--3-------------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 
 |-----------------------------| 

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        (figure 3) - this solo is played after the bridge

        -------------------1--0--
        --3---3---3---3----------
        ----2---2---2---2--------
        -------------------------
        -------------------------

 |-------------------|               
 |3--0--1--3--1------|               
 |---------------2---| repeat 4x and 
 |-------------------| then play.... 
 |-------------------|               


        --------------------------
        --------------1-----------
        -----0---------------0--0-
        --3-----3--3-----3--------
        --------------------------
        --------------------------

 |-------|                       
 |-------|                       
 |--0----|  repeat several times 
 |-------|                       
 |-------|                       
 |-------|                       

        ***********  how it all goes
 together *************

        (INTRO)
        (play figure 1a by itself, 
and then play figure 1b during
         the Dm and G chords in the 
following chord progression:

Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-C-G-F-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G)

        (VERSE: figure 1b is played 
over D-G chords during verses)
            D                
        the bed at night is a 
 G
liferaft
               D             G
        in the ocean of the dark
          D              G
        i hang my hands over the 
sides
            D                  G
        and pray that god knows why
         C                 G
        drifting somewhere in the 
black
         F                        
        feeling (low?) 'neath the 
G
blanket
                C            
        and the weight of the 
 G
mattress
            F               G
        the mistress of the sheets


        (BRIDGE: play following 
chord progression using
         bridge chord shapes shown 
above:
         
Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F-Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F
Second guitar plays figure two 
(shown above) over chords)

           Bb              F      
        on many successive nights 
          C
i've been miserable
          Eb                 Bb   
        give one (sense?) to sense
      F
 the invisible
          F
        i know you're in this room

        being (? ? ?)


        (SOLO: play figure three 
over repeated chord
         progression Dm-G...)


        (VERSE)
            D                
        the bed at night is a 
 G
lifeboat
                 D                 
        a throne off which you can 
 G
(?) from
                  D             
        i hang my hands and feet 
      G
over the sides
            D                   
        and pray to the space of 
          G        D
what can never be known


        ....questions, comments and 
corrections
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