Snakes and Waterfalls
by Nick Shoulders · posted by JoSchmo732
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How to read this tab — notation key
- +
- Blow note
- −
- Draw note
- b or '
- Half-step bend
- bb or ''
- Two half-step bend
- bbb or '''
- Three half-step bend
- (###)
- Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
- < or *
- Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)
Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.
INTRO: 7 8- 9- 8- 7 8- 7 6- 7 6- 6 6- 7 6- 6 5-
porch lights, on distant ridges dark
6- 7 7 8- 9- 8- 7 8- 7 6-
rock-lined valleys, singing with every bar
7 6- 6- 6 6- 7 6- 6- 6 6 5-
black water bottom to wind-blown timber tall
6- 7 7 7 7 7 8- 8- 8- 7 8- 7 6
it's my land, snakes and waterfalls
7 6- 6 6- 7 6-\ 6 5-
REPEAT INTRO
(same basic notes on all the verses, just feel it out)
sixteen score and seven years my blood has called home
all the crimson clay and the old roads that I roam
this place might be cursed after all,
but it's my land, snakes and waterfalls
(bend down hard on the 6- in "waterfalls", make it cry)
and I know that when a distant shore's before me
CHORUS
7 6- 6 6 6 6 6- 6- 7 9- 8- 7 8- 6-
oh how my poor heart aches, at every hollow that I forsake
7 7- 7- 7- 7 8- 8- 9- 9- 8- 8- 8- 9- 9- 9 9- 8 8- 7
I've beentrying to run sine I could crawl
it's my land, snakes and waterfalls
GUITAR SOLO (have some fun, it's hard to play out of key on a diatonic)
REPEAT CHORUS
blue cave water and canebrakes forever call
me on home, to snakes and water falls
REAPEAT INTRO 2 TIMES
this is by ear, so don't come crying to me if the chorus aint perfect.