Grateful Dead – St Stephen (Guitar Live)
Key
-
Versions
(3)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
Notes:
Jam ideas included. Modeled after Live/Dead (1969) St.Stephen
Time properly with lead intro (takes practice and listening]
[Intro]
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[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 1]
E D Saint Stephen with a rose A E In and out of the garden he goes E D Country garland in the wind and the rain A N.C. Wherever he goes the people all complain
[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 2]
E D Did Stephen prosper in his time? A E Well he may, and he may decline E D Did it matter, does it now? A N.C. Stephen would answer if he only knew how
[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 3]
E D Wishing well with a golden bell A E Bucket hanging clear to hell E D Hell half way twixt now and then A N.C. Stephen fill it up and lower down, and lower down again
[Bridge]
E D A E Lady finger, dipped in moonlight D A E D Writing "What for?" across the morning sky E D A E Sunlight splatters dawn with answers D A E D Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye E D A E Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow D A E D What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned E D A E Several seasons with their treasons D A E D Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own
[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 4]
E D Did he doubt or did he try? A E Answers a-plenty in the by and by E D Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills A N.C. One man gathers what another man spills
(land hard, solo jam)
[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 5]
E A Saint Stephen will remain A E All he's lost he shall regain E D Seashore washed by the suds and the foam A N.C. Been here so long he's got to calling it home
[Verse 6]
E Fortune comes a-crawling, Calliope woman D A E Spinning that curious sense of your own E D Can you answer? Yes I can A E D But what would be the answer to the answer man?
(William Tell Bridge)
(Piano intro)
Bb -> B (half step slide) x4[Bridge]
B High green chilly winds and windy B vines in loops around the twining B shafts of lavender they're crawling A B to the sun B Wonder who will water all the B children of the garden when they B sigh about the barren lack of B A rain and droop so hungry 'neath the B A sky, -ay) Bb -> B (half step slide) x4 B Underfoot the ground is patched with Abm A climbing arms of ivy wrapped a B round the manzanita stark and A F#m shiny in the breeze E B William Tell has stretched his bow till Abm A it won't stretch no furthermore B Abm And/or it may require a change that F#m D hasn't come before
(The Eleven)
[Jam]
B D E
B embellish:
e|---------------| B|----7h8p7------| G|----------9----| D|---------------| A|---------------| E|---------------|
After lead starts doing:
e|--------------------------------------| B|------------------15------------17----| G|----16--15h16p15------15h16p15--------| D|--------------------------------------| A|--------------------------------------| E|--------------------------------------|
AAA DDD EEE DD
(Jam: 123, 123, 123, 12)
A D E D A D E D No more time to tell how, this is the season of what, A D E D (Eight sided whispering Hallelujah Hatrick) A D E D Now is the time of returning with thought Jewels A D E D Polished and gleaming. A D E D (Six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow) A D E D Is the time past believing A D E D the child has relinquished the rein, A D E D (Five men writing with fingers of gold) A D E D Now is the test of the boomerang A D E D (Four girls waiting in the foreign dominion) A D E D Tossed in the night of redeeming A D E D (Riding in the whalebelly fade away in the moonlight) A D E D (Sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below)
AAA DDD EEE DD
(Jam: 123, 123, 123, 12)
(around 8:00 minute mark)
[Outro]
Em D (still in 11/8)
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(Jam: 123, 123, 123, 12
(Repeat and fade)