Willie Nelson – Gravedigger (Guitar)

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Tabbed by: Juan Hernandez This is how I play this song, I don't know if this is the exact same way Willie plays it, but it sounds good. Intro: Am | G | E | Am G | D/F# | Am | Am
Am                 G
 Cyrus Jones, 1810 to 1913

F              
 Made his great grandchildren believe

        Am
He could live to a hundred and three

Am                              G
 A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little 
kid
F                     Am
So Cyrus Jones lived forever
Chorus: (Note: played the same as the intro)
     Am
Gravedigger

             G     
When you dig my grave

                  E
Could you make it shallow

        Am     G           D/F#
So that I can feel the rain

         Am     Am
Gravedigger

Am                   G
 Muriel Stonewall, 1903 to 1954

F                                 Am
 Lost both of her babies in the second great war

               Am
Now you should never have to watch

                      G
Your only children are lowered in the ground

           F                           Am
You should never have to bury your own babies

     Am
Gravedigger

             G
When you dig my grave

                  E
Could you make it shallow

        Am     G           D/F#
So that I can feel the rain

         Am     Am
Gravedigger

Dm          F         C  G
Ring around the rosey

Dm          F        C  G
Pocket full of posey

Dm    F        C  G
Ashes to ashes
We all fall down
     Am
Gravedigger

             G
When you dig my grave

                  E
Could you make it shallow

        Am     G           D/F#
So that I can feel the rain

         Am     Am
Gravedigger

Am                       G
  Little Mikey Carson, '67 to '75

        F
He rode his

                              Am
Bike like the devil until the day he died

              Am                                  G
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying 
trapeze
   F          Am
Oh, 1940 to 1992

     Am
Gravedigger

             G
When you dig my grave

                  E
Could you make it shallow

        Am     G           D/F#
So that I can feel the rain

         Am
Gravedigger

             G
When you dig my grave

                  E
Could you make it shallow

        Am     G           D/F#
So that I can feel the rain

                     Am
I can Feel the rain

     Am
Gravedigger

             G
When you dig my grave

                      E
Could you make it shallow

        Am     G           D/F#
So that I can feel the rain

Am
Gravedigger

Am
Gravedigger