I took the other tab on this website and tweaked it a little to try & get closer
to this acoustic version of Dire Wolf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6zc1AaApNU&fmt=18
Dire Wolf by The Grateful Dead
Standard Tuning
Intro:
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--1-1-0-----0---|---------1----|-------1---1----|-1-1-0---|
--------2---0---|-0h1-2---2----|-0h2h4-----0----|-------2-|
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G
In the timbers of Fennario,
Bb F
The wolves are running 'round.
F
The winter was so hard and cold,
G
Froze ten feet 'neath the ground.
F G
Don't murder me,
C C* C F C* = open D on 4th string
I beg of you, don't murder me.
G F C
Please, don't murder me.
G
I sat down to my supper,
Bb F
'Twas a bottle of red whisky.
F
I said my prayers and went to bed,
C C/B C/Bb Am
That's the last they saw of me.
G F
Don't murder me,
C C* C F
I beg of you, don't murder me.
G F C C C/B
Please, don't murder me.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/g/grateful_dead/dire_wolf_crd_ver_2.html ]
C/Bb Am G
When I awoke, the Dire Wolf,
C Bb F
Six hundred pounds of sin,
F
Was grinning at my window,
G
All I said was "Come on in".
F G
Don't murder me,
C E? Am
I beg of you, don't murder me.
G F C
Please, don't murder me.
C/Bb Am G
The Wolf came in, I got my cards,
C Bb F
We sat down for a game.
F
I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades,
G
But the cards were all the same.
F G
Don't murder me,
C E? Am
I beg of you, don't murder me.
G F C
Please, don't murder me.
[[solo]]
G
In the backwash of Fennario,
Bb F
The black and bloody mire,
F
The Dire Wolf collects his due,
G
While the boys sing 'round the fire.
F G
Don't murder me,
C C* C F
I beg of you, don't murder me.
G F C
Please, don't murder me.
G F
Don't murder me,
C E? Am
I beg of you, don't murder me.
G F C C C/B C/A
Please, don't murder me.
G F C
Please, don't murder me.
outro
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