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/ Grateful Dead / Blues for Allah (1975) / Franklin's Tower guitar tab

From: Schof26@aol.com
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 23:57:43 -0500
Subject: Franklin's Tower...From Bill

This is how I learned "Franklin's Tower" by the Dead.  I don't know if the
chords are right because a friend of mine showed me how to play it.  In any
case, here it is:

Artist:Greatful Dead
Song: "Franklin's Tower"
Album :Blues For Allah
Written By:Robert Hunter (Words); Jerry Garcia and Bill Kreutzmann (Music)

A: 002220     G:320033     D: 000323

A                       G D                G       A                        G
   D                    G
In another time's forgotten space, your eyes looked from your mother's face

A                            G D                   G A
                              G D                       G
Wild flower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow you safely
home

A             G    D  G A             G   D    G A           G   D    G A
           G    D       G
Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
dew.

A                      G D                     G  A                         G
 D                            G
I'll tell you where the four winds dwell, in Franklin's Tower there hangs a
bell

A              G D                 G A                        G  D
                                G
It can ring, turn night to day, it can ring like fire when you lose your way

A             G   D   G A             G   D   G  A           G    D   G A
           G    D        G
Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
dew.

A                         G  D                  G A
                                   G  D                        G
God save the child who rings the bell, it may have one good ring; baby, you
can't tell

A                          G  D                  G  A                       G
 D                         G
One watch by night, one watch by day, if you get confused, listen to the
music play

A              G    D  G  A           G   D   G  A            G    D  G  A
           G    D         G
Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
dew.

A                            G  D              G A
                             G D                  G
Some come to laugh thier past away, some come to make it one more day

A                    G  D                    G A                  G D
                                    G
Whichever way your pleasure tends, if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest
wind

A             G    D   G A            G    D  G  A            G   D   G  A
           G   D       G
Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
dew.

A                         G D                      G A
                          G D                           G
In Franklin's Tower the four winds sleep, like four lean hounds the
lighthouse keep

A                      G D                       G  A
                             G  D                       G
Wild flower seed in the sand and wind, may the four winds blow you home again

A              G   D   G A            G   D   G  A           G    D   G  A
          G    D
Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
dew.


This song could be dead solid perfect or totally wrong, I don't know.
However, this is how I learned it and this is how I play it.  If it is
totally wrong, at least the words are here.  That is all!

No Worries!
Bill Schofield (and Caroline)
Schof26@aol.com


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
Blues for Allah tabs
01Help on the Way/Slipknot! tabbass tab
02Franklin's Tower tabbass tab
05Crazy Fingers tabbass tab

 

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