Artist: Dave Matthews
Album: Some Devil
Song: Gravedigger (acoustic)
NO CAPO
Standard Tuning
Chords:
Am: x02210
G: 320003
E: 022100
D/F#: 200230
Dm: xx0231
C: x32010
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[Intro]
Am | G | E | Am G | D/F# | Am | Am
Am G
Cyrus Jones, 1810 to 1913
F
Made his great grandchildren believe
Am
He could live to a hundred and three
Am G
A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little
kid
F Am
So Cyrus Jones lived forever
[Chorus]
(Note: played the same as the intro)
Am
Gravedigger
G
When you dig my grave
E
Could you make it shallow
Am G D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
Am Am
Gravedigger
[Verse]
Am G
Muriel Stonewall, 1903 to 1954
F Am
Lost both of her babies in the second great war
Am
Now you should never have to watch
G
Your only children are lowered in the ground
F Am
You should never have to bury your own babies
[Chorus]
Am
Gravedigger
G
When you dig my grave
E
Could you make it shallow
Am G D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
Am Am
Gravedigger
[Verse]
Dm F C G
Ring around the rosey
Dm F C G
Pocket full of posey
Dm F C G
Ashes to ashes
We all fall down
[Chorus]
Am
Gravedigger
G
When you dig my grave
E
Could you make it shallow
Am G D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
Am Am
Gravedigger
[Verse]
Am G
Little Mikey Carson, '67 to '75
F
He rode his
Am
Bike like the devil until the day he died
Am G
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying
trapeze
F Am
Oh, 1940 to 1992
[Chorus]
Am
Gravedigger
G
When you dig my grave
E
Could you make it shallow
Am G D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
[Chorus]
Am
Gravedigger
G
When you dig my grave
E
Could you make it shallow
Am G D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
Am
I can Feel the rain
Am
Gravedigger
G
When you dig my grave
E
Could you make it shallow
Am G D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
Am
Gravedigger
Am
Gravedigger
