The song opens with the following Schools bass line:
/ / / / / / / /
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|-------------8-------10----------------|
|--10-----------8--------10-------------|
|-----10----------6---------8-----------|
|--------8---------------------6--7--8--|
C D# F
Main Riff (Mikey):
/ / / / / / / /
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|-----2-3-2--5-5---3-2-----------------------|
|-----------------------3--5-5---3-5---------|
|--3-----------------------------------3-----|
|--------------------------------------------|
Mikey's riff over the verses:
/ / / / / / / /
|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|
|-----2-3-2--5-5---3-2----------------------|
|--3--------------------1--3-3---1-3--------|
|-------------------------------------------|
Verse 1:
C D#
Rebirtha strolling 'cross the street
F C
Juggling keys to a small red car
C D#
Butterflies and bombs fly close
F C
Like she's some Disney movie star
C D#
Sipping hopes and lonlies
F C
Since the big leagues left us dry
C D#
Birtha, Rebirtha sing a sad song
F C
Soothe these troubled times
Chorus (once for each line in the chorus):
Dm
/ / / / / / / /
|---------------------|--------------|
|---------------------|--------------|
|--10-10-9------------|--7-----------|
|----------8--8-10-8--|--------------|
|---------------------|--------------|
|---------------------|--------------|
Gm
First time
It's not the first time
Last time
No, I know I seen your place before
Maybe in a past life
Or maybe it was just last night
I don't know
Verse 2:
Birtha never sang too well
But her stereo shook glass
Leather gripped our bodies
As her toes curled around the gas
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/w/widespread_panic/rebirtha_tab.html ]
Shaking loose out of Kansas
First twenty minutes in black-and-white
Birtha, Rebirtha, talk to me, take to me
Ease these troubled times
Verse 3:
Won't ever talk too much
She had those television eyes
My gaze never strayed too much
Too much past those eyes
She said, "I know a town where real life's a game
Baseball's all that's real
At night all the faces light up
As the players take the field"
(Chorus)
(Jam over the verse chords for 12 measures)
Bridge:
The rhythm hear can be really difficult to handle unless you
pay very close attention. I've written out the tab below in
15/8 time, but it's probably more like alternating measures
of 4/4 and 7/8 for each measure tabbed out below. Either
way is basically the same thing. Notice there's 8 beats for
the G and Dm chords, and only 7 beats for each Bb chord.
The chords should be correct, but they may not be in the
right position.
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
|--8---------------8-------------|
|--8---------------8-------------|
|.-9---------------8-------------|
|.-10--------------10------------|
|--10--------------10------------|
|--8---------------8-------------|
C Cm
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / (x4)
|--6---------------6-------------|
|--6---------------8-------------|
|--7---------------8------------.|
|--8---------------8------------.|
|--8---------------6-------------|
|--6-----------------------------|
Bb Eb
(Jam over the chorus for 12 measures and play the chorus
melody line for the last 8).
(Verse 1)
(Verse 3)
(Chorus)
The final jam begins with alternating measures of G and Bb.
Eventually, the jam drops into the same chords as the bridge
section above, but in 4/4 this time.
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
|--7---------------6---------------|
|--8---------------6---------------|
|.-7---------------7---------------|
|.-9---------------8---------------|
|--10--------------8---------------|
|------------------6---------------|
G Bb
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
|--5---------------6---------------|
|--6---------------6---------------|
|--7---------------7--------------.|
|--7---------------8--------------.|
|--5---------------8---------------|
|------------------6---------------|
Dm Bb
