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Liferaft

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Subject: TAB: 'Liferaft' by Bedhead
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 14:32:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "jeffnmoe" 

		'Liferaft' by Bedhead
	    from the album 'Whatfunlifewas'

	(note: if anyone knows the complete lyrics, please
	send them to me at jeffnmoe@mcs.com....are there
	any other Bedhead fans reading this newsgroup?)

	dropped-D tuning (tune low E down to D)

	chords (intro and verses)
	C  - x32010
	D  - 000232
	Dm - 000231
	F  - xx3211
	G  - x20003 (don't play low E because of tuning)

	chords (bridge)
	Bb - x13331
	C  - x35553
	Eb - x68886
	F  - 333xxx

	(figure 1a) - the following line is played at beginning
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-----------------------0-------------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-----0--0-----0---2--3----------0--0-----0---2--3------|
	--0--------0-----------------0--------0----------------|


	(figure 1b) - the following line is played during the
	verses (only over Dm-G or D-G chords)
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-----------------------0----0--------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-----0--0-----0---2--3----3----3--2--3-----------------|
	--0--------0-------------------------------------------|


	(figure 2) - this line is played during the bridge...
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	--------1--3-------------------------------------------|
	--3--3--------2--0--0-----------------0--2-------------|
	-----------------------1--1--0--1--3-------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|
	-------------------------------------------------------|

	(figure 3) - this solo is played after the bridge
	-------------------1--0---------------------|
	--3---3---3---3----------3--0--1--3--1------|
	----2---2---2---2-----------------------2---| repeat 4x and
	--------------------------------------------| then play....
	--------------------------------------------|

	---------------------------------|
	--------------1------------------|
	-----0---------------0--0---0----|  repeat several times
	--3-----3--3-----3---------------|
	---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|

	***********  how it all goes together *************

	(INTRO)
	(play figure 1a by itself, and then play figure 1b during
	 the Dm and G chords in the following chord progression:
	 Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-C-G-F-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G)

	(VERSE: figure 1b is played over D-G chords during verses)
	    D                 G
	the bed at night is a liferaft
               D             G
	in the ocean of the dark
          D              G
	i hang my hands over the sides
            D                  G
	and pray that god knows why
         C                 G
	drifting somewhere in the black
         F                        G
	feeling (low?) 'neath the blanket
                C             G
	and the weight of the mattress
            F               G
	the mistress of the sheets


	(BRIDGE: play following chord progression using
	 bridge chord shapes shown above:
	 Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F-Bb-F-C-Eb-Bb-F
	 Second guitar plays figure two (shown above) over chords)

           Bb              F                C
	on many successive nights i've been miserable
          Eb                 Bb         F
	give one (sense?) to sense the invisible
          F
	i know you're in this room

	being (? ? ?)


	(SOLO: play figure three over repeated chord
	 progression Dm-G...)


	(VERSE)
	    D                 G
	the bed at night is a lifeboat
                 D                  G
	a throne off which you can (?) from
                  D                   G
	i hang my hands and feet over the sides
            D                             G        D
	and pray to the space of what can never be known


        ....questions, comments and corrections
	    to jeffnmoe@mcs.com