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/ Grateful Dead / American Beauty (1970) / Friend of the Devil guitar tab

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#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
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From: Harlan L Thompson

FRIEND OF THE DEVIL- Grateful Dead

G   G/F#  G/E  G/D  C  C/B  C/A  C/G
G      G/F#     G/E   G/D    C        C/B        C/A  C/G
I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds
G       G/F#         G/E  G/D             C      C/B    C/A  C/G
Didn't get to sleep that night till the morning came around

CHORUS:
D
Set out runnin' but I take my time
  Am
a friend of the devil is a friend of mine
   D
If I get home before day light
  Am                          D    riff 1 (as D - G)
I just might get some sleep tonight

Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills
I spent the night in Utah in a cave up in the hills ...CHORUS

Ran down to the levee but the devil caught me there
took my twenty dollar bill and he vanished in the air ...CHORUS

BRIDGE:
riff 2  D
       Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night
    C/G
The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie and she's my heart's delight
D
Second one is prison, baby, the shefiff's on my trail
    Am                            C                D   riff 3 (D - G)
and if he catches up with me I'll spend my life in jail

Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee
First one says she's got my child, but it don't look like me
...CHORUS

G:    x x x 0 0 3     strum= base note, \\ (downstroke), / (upstroke)
G/F#: x x 4 0 0 3                       \\               /
G/E:  x x 2 0 0 3                       \\               /
G/D:  x x 0 0 0 3

riff 1: D -0-------0-\\-/---\\-/---0-4--- riff 2: D -0---------
        A -----0-2---\\-/-0-\\-/-4-------         A -------0---
        E ---2-------\\-/---\\-/---------         E ---0-2-----

riff 3: D ---0-------0-\\-/---\\-/-0---0-4-
        A -0-----0-2---\\-/-0-\\-/---4-----
        E -----2-------\\-/---\\-/---------


(from American Beauty, 1970)
(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)


Grateful Dead albums
1990 Without a Net
1989 Built to Last
1987 In the Dark
1981 Dead Set
1981 Reckoning
1980 Go to Heaven
1978 Shakedown Street
1977 Terrapin Station
1976 Steal Your Face
1975 Blues for Allah
1974 The Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel
1973 Wake of the Flood
1973 History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1
1972 Europe '72
1971 The Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)
1970 American Beauty
1970 Workingman's Dead
1969 Live/Dead
1969 Aoxomoxoa
1968 Anthem of the Sun
1967 The Grateful Dead
American Beauty tabs
01Box of Rain tabbass tab
02Friend of the Devil tabbass tab
03Sugar Magnolia tabbass tab
04Operator tabbass tab
05Candyman tabbass tab
06Ripple tabbass tab
07Brokedown Palace tabbass tab
08Till the Morning Comes tabbass tab
09Attics of My Life tabbass tab
10Truckin' tabbass tab

 

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