Scarlet Begonias -> Fire on the Mountain -- Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead rarely played Scarlet Begonias and Fire on the Mountain seperate from
and this is a tabulature of the two songs and the segment between them. It's a real
thing to play and it's one of their best jams ever.
SCARLET BEGONIAS
Jerry Intro
B|-----7----------------7-----------------5---||-----7--------9--9----7-----------------5---||---8-----8-8--9--9--8-----8-8-8\6-6-6-6-----||---9-----9-9--------9-----9-9-9\7-7-7-7-----||--------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------| Play eight to twelve times
Bobby Intro
B|-----7---------------7----------------||-----7----7h9--7-----7---5-5-5h7--5---||----------8h9--8---------6-6-6h7--6---||---9---------------9------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------| Play four times
B|-----7-----------------------------------||-----------7-----5----4-5---7---9-9/10---||-------9\8-8--8-------4------------------||---9----------9--6------6---9---9-9/11---||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------| Play four times
Jerry First Verse
E B|---4-4-4-4---4-4---4-4-4--4----------------------||---5-5-5-5---5-5---5-5-5--5----------------------||---4-4-4-4---4-4---4-4-4--4----------------------||---6-6-6-6---6-6---6-6-6--6---------------6--7---||---------------------------------6h7--7/9--------||------------------------------7------------------| Play twice As.....................Square
Bobby First Verse
E B|---7--x---7--7-7---7---7-7--7-------7----------------||---9--x---9--9-9---9---9-9--9-------------7------5---||---9--x---9--9-9---9---9-9--9---------9\8-8--8-------||----------------------------------9----------9---6---||-----------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------| Play twice As.......................Square
Jerry Second Verse
A E B A E|---0---0-0--0---2----0---0-0--0---||---2---2-2--0---4----2---2-2--0---||---2---2-2--1---4----2---2-2--1---||---2---2-2--2---4----2---2-2--2---||---0---0-0--2---2----0---0-0--2---||------------0-----------------0---| Play twice From.......................Eyes
Bobby Second Verse
A E B A E|---5---5-5/12---7---5---5-5\-0---||---5---5-5/12---7---5---5-5\-0---||---------------------------------||---------------------------------||---------------------------------||---------------------------------| Play twice From......................Eyes
Bobby (Between Verses)
B|------------------------------------------------||---9--7---9--7---9-9-7----9--7---9--7---9-9-7---||---9--8---9--8---9-9-8----9--8---9--8---9-9-8---||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------|
Jerry Third Verse
(Well I aint often right but I've never been wrong...)
F# B A E|---2-2--2---2-2---2-2-2--2----2-2--2-2---2-2--0-0-0--0---||---2-2--2---2-2---2-2-2--2----4-4--4-4---4-4--2-2-2--0---||---3-3--3---3-3---3-3-3--3----4-4--4-4---4-4--2-2-2--1---||---4-4--4---4-4---4-4-4--4----4-4--4-4---4-4--2-2-2--2---||------------------------------2-2--2-2---2-4--0-0-0--2---||-----------------------------------------------------0---| Aint..................Wrong.......................Song
|-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||---------------------2---------------------2---||-------------2--2-4----------------2--2-4------||---0---2-4---------------0---2-4---------------|
F#m B A E|---2-2--2---2-2---2-2-2--2----2-2--2-2---2-2--0-0-0--0---||---2-2--2---2-2---2-2-2--2----4-4--4-4---4-4--2-2-2--0---||---2-2--2---2-2---2-2-2--2----4-4--4-4---4-4--2-2-2--1---||---4-4--4---4-4---4-4-4--4----4-4--4-4---4-4--2-2-2--2---||------------------------------2-2--2-2---2-4--0-0-0--2---||-----------------------------------------------------0---| Once..................Light.......................Right
Bobby Third Verse
F# B A E|---9--9--9--9----9--9----9--9--9----9----11-11-11-11--11-11--9--9--9--7---||---11-11-11-11---11-11---11-11-11---11---12-12-12-12--12-12--10-10-10-9---||---11-11-11-11---11-11---11-11-11---11---11-11-11-11--11-11--9--9--9--9---||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------| Aint.............................Wrong.............................Song
F#m B A E|---9--9--9--9----9--9----9--9--9----9----11-11-11-11--11-11--9--9--9--7---||---10-10-10-10---10-10---10-10-10---10---12-12-12-12--12-12--10-10-10-9---||---11-11-11-11---11-11---11-11-11---11---11-11-11-11--11-11--9--9--9--9---||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------| Once.............................Light.............................Right
Jerry Bridge
|-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||---------------------2---------------------4---||-------------2--2-4----------------4--4-6------||---0---2-4---------------2---4-6---------------|
|-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||---------------------7---------------------9---||-------------7--7-9----------------9--9-11-----||---5---7-9---------------7---9-11--------------|
|-------------------------------------||-----------------------------12-10---||---------------------11--11----------||---9--9-9h11-11/13-------------------||-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|
Bobby Bridge
|-----0---------------2---------------5-------------||-------------0---------------2---------------5-----||-------2\1-----2-------4\3-----4-------7\6-----7---||---2-------2-------4-------4-------7-------7-------||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------|
|-----7-------------------------------||-------------7---4--5---7---9-9/10---||-------9\8-----9-4-------------------||---9-------9--------6---9---9-9/11---||-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|
Solo Example
E|---------11-14-12--12-12--14p13p12p11----11-12-14--14---||---12-14------------------------------12----------------||--------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------12-11----------9-11-9-11---||------9h10-12--------10-12-10-------------||---11-------------------------------------||------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------|
E|---11/12--12-12--14p13p12p11----11-12-14--14---||-----------------------------12----------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------||---------7---9-7------------------||-----6-8----------9-8-9-----------||---9---------------------9----9---||---------------------------12-----||----------------------------------|
A E B A E|-----------------------------------------------||--------------10--9------7-----------5---------||---------9-11-------9------8-------6---7p6-----||---10/11--------------9------9---7---------6---||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------|
A E B A E|---------------------12--9/10--10\9--9/10--5----3/5--7--5---5-5h7p5---||-----7h8-8/10--10h12--------------------------------------8-----------||---9------------------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------------|
Scarlet Outro
(Jerry)|------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------||------------------------------9-8---------||---------9-7----7-11-9---7-11-----9-7-----||-----4h9------9-----------------------9---||---7--------------------------------------|
(Bobby)|-----7-----------------------------------||-----------7-----5----4-5---7---9-9/10---||-------9\8-8--8-------4------------------||---9----------9--6------6---9---9-9/11---||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|
SCARLET BEGONIAS > FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN SEGMENT
Key: B
Scale: B Mixolydian
(Either, vibrato slowly)
|---------------------------||---7~~~---9--7~~~---5~~~---||---8~~~---9--8~~~---6~~~---||---9~~~---9--9~~~---7~~~---||---------------------------||---------------------------|
Slow the pace of playing down a whole bunch, both Bobby and Jerry parts should just be
B mixolydian segments, use lots of vibratos.
Small Example:|---------------11------------------------||---12~---10h12----12-10-9----------------||--------------------------11-8~-8--6/8---||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|
Have all of the string/key instruments aside from one of the guitar parts stop playing
awhile, and start a B -> A progression(Fire on the Mountain)
Example: B A|--------7--------------------------------||---7~-----9p7--------5~-------4/5--4/5---||---8~---------9-8-9--6~-------5/6--5/6---||---9~----------------7~-------6/7--6/7---||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|
After a couple measures of that, have the rest of the strings/keys come in, now on a B>A
which starts Fire on the Mountain
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
Bobby Riff (Throughout most of the song)
B A|---------x-7--7------7-----7-------x-5--5-x-x-x------x-5-5---||--------x-------7------7----------x-------x-x-x-----x--------||-------x--------8------8---------x--------x-x-x----x---------||---9--x-----------9------9----7-x---------x-x-x-7-x----------||-------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------|
Repeat that, mix it up all you want, that's just the main structure of it.
Phil Riff
|-------------------------------------------------------||-------9--9------9-----9-----7--7----------------------||------------9------9-----------------7-7-5-7-5---------||---7----------7------7----5--------------------5-6-7---|
Once again, repeat and mix up
Jerry Intro
B A|----------------------------------------------------||---12---12-11---11-9---9-9-11-12--10---10-9---9-7---||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------|
Play that four times, once again, mix it up a bit
(Volume up and wah on)
B A|------------------------------------------||---7~~--7\6/7-9-7~-6-7-9-5~~~--4/5--4/5---||---8~~--8\7/8-8-8~-7-8-8-6~~~--5/6--5/6---||---9~~--9\8/9-9-9~-8-9-9-7~~~--6/7--6/7---||------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------|
B A|-----------------------------------------||---7~~--7\6/7-9-7~-6-7-9-7--5~~--4/5~~---||---8~~--8\7/8-8-8~-7-8-8-8--6~~--5/6~~---||---9~~--9\8/9-9-9~-8-9-9-9--7~~--6/7~~---||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|
B A|------------------------------------------------||---12~~--14-12~--11-12-14-10~~---9/10---9/10----||---11~~--11-11~--10-11-11-9~~~---8/9----8/9-----||---13~~--13-13~--12-13-13-11~~---10/11--10/11---||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------|
B A|---------------------------------------||---7~~--7\6/7-9-7~-6-7-9-7--5--4/5~~---||---8~~--8\7/8-8-8~-7-8-8-8--6--5/6~~---||---9~~--9\8/9-9-9~-8-9-9-9--7--6/7~~---||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------|
Bobby - In Verse
B A|---------------------------------------||---12------12--14p12-----------10-10---||---11--11--11--11-----11\------9--9----||-------13-------------13\------11-11---||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------| There's...(A Dragon...)
B A|----------------------------------------------------------||---12------12------12-14p12-----------10-10--10-10--------||---11--11--11-11---11-11----11\-------9--9---9--9---------||-------13-----13------------13\-------11-11--11-11--------||----------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------| Take...(A whole pail...)
Jerry Chorus(Wah pedal on) B A|-------------------------------------------||---------7-7---------------------5-5-------||---------8-8---------------------6-6-------||---------9-9---------------------7-7-------||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------| Fire..........Fire on the Mountain......
All of Jerry's soloing is in B mixolydian, put a lot of emphasis on B when needed, and
on A when needed, makes it sound beautiful.
Jerry Fire Outro (first)
|---7---6--4---------------/5--4---||-------------7--4-----------------||-------------------6-4-2----------||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||----------------------------------|
Repeat four times, mix it up a bit
Jerry Scarlet -> Fire Outro
|------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------||------------------------------9-8---------||---------9-7----7-11-9---7-11-----9-7-----||-----4h9------9-----------------------9---||---7--------------------------------------|
Bobby Scarlet -> Fire Outro
|-----7-----------------------------------||-----------7-----5----4-5---7---9-9/10---||-------9\8-8--8-------4------------------||---9----------9--6------6---9---9-9/11---||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|
