Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Guitar)

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Words by Robert Hunter Music by Jerry Garcia Album version - Workingman's Dead (1970)
C#7 x-4-3-4-2-x
[Intro]
e|------------|
B|------------|
G|------------|
D|------------|
A|--0-0-------|
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| E | D | A | A | [Verse 1]
       E
In the timbers of Fennario

    G                   D
The wolves are running 'round

    D
The winter was so hard and cold

      D                    E
Froze ten feet 'neath the ground
[Chorus]
             D    E
Don't murder me

         A                 D
I beg of you, don't murder me

E       D
 Plea - se

             A
Don't murder me
[Verse 2]
  E
I sat down to my supper

 G                        D
'Twas a bottle of red whiskey

  D
I said my prayers and went to bed

           A         G#  G  F#m
That's the last they saw of me
[Chorus]
             E    D
Don't murder me

         A                 D
I beg of you, don't murder me

E       D
 Plea - se

             A
Don't murder me
[Verse 3]
     F#m          E
When I awoke, the Dire Wolf

    A       G         D
Six hundred pounds of sin

    D
Was grinning at my window

      D                  E
All I said was "Come on in"
[Chorus]
             D    E
Don't murder me

         A          C#7    F#m
I beg of you, don't murder me

E       D
 Plea - se

             A
Don't murder me
[Verse 4]
    F#m             E
The wolf came in, I got my cards

   A        G     D
We sat down for a game

  D
I cut my deck to the queen of spades

        D                   E
But the cards were all the same
[Chorus]
             D    E
Don't murder me

         A          C#7    F#m
I beg of you, don't murder me

E       D
 Plea - se

             A
Don't murder me
[Solo] (same as Verse 4 plus Chorus) | F#m | E | A G | D | | D | D | D | E | | D | E | A C#7 | F#m | | E | D | A | A | [Verse 5]
       E
In the backwash of Fennario

    G                D
The black and bloody mire

    D
The Dire Wolf collects his due

          D                    E
While the boys sing round the fire
[Chorus]
             D    E
Don't murder me

         A                 D
I beg of you, don't murder me

E       D
 Plea - se

             A
Don't murder me

             E    D
Don't murder me

         A          C#7    F#m
I beg of you, don't murder me

E       D
 Plea - se

             A
Don't murder me - No, no, no

             E    D
Don't murder me

         A          C#7    F#m
I beg of you, don't murder me

E       D
 Plea - se

             A
Don't murder me

E       D
 Plea - se

             A    A E A
Don't murder me