Bird Song -- Grateful Dead
This is Key of E, they played in D in the early 70s so if it sounds sharp compared to a
you have that's why. They played in E from about 1977 onward.
Intro:
|---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||---9--7-9----9--7-9---9---9--7-9----9--7-9---9-----||---9--7-9----9--7-9---9---9--7-9----9--7-9---9-----||------------------------7----------------------7---||---------------------------------------------------| play 4-8 times
Main Riff:
|----------------------------||----------------------------||----------------------------||---------4-------7-4--------||-----4-5----7--5-----5--7---||---7------------------------| play four times in intro, twice after each verse segment.
|-----------------||-----------------||-----------------||-------7---------||-----5-----5h7---||---7-------------| play four times after the main riff in the intro
Bobby Main Riff:
(He only played this for a short while in the early 80s, but it's the neatest sounding
to do it)
v[Jerry's riff for timing]v|------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------||---------4-------7-4---------------------4-------7-4--------||-----4-5----7--5-----5--7------------4-5----7--5-----5--7---||---7-------------------------------7------------------------|^[Jerry's riff for timing]^
|------------------------16----14------------------------4---||------------------------15----15------------------------5---||------------------------16----14------------------------4---||------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------|
Between verses Bobby riff:
|-------------------------------------------||---9--9-7--10--9--7-----9--9-7--10--9--7---||---9--9-7--9---9--7-----9--9-7--9---9--7---||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------|
During main verse Bobby riff:
|---12---------14-16---------14/16-17-19---17/19------21-19---||-------------------------------------------------------------||---9----------11-13---------11/13-14-16---14/16------18-16---||-------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------| All I know is something, like a bird within her sang
