The Dreaming Tree Dave Matthews Band
Notes: This is from the new DMB album 'Before These Crowded Streets'.
If you haven't heard it yet, it's worth a listen, though very different
from their other stuff. This is my first tab, so be gentle :)
Chords used:
I put both versions of the chords (where applicable) because I'm not
sure which one is correct, but they both sound good.
Verse chords:
Dm: x00231 (or 577555)
Am: x02210 (or 557765)
These two are played during the main verses while Dave sings.
The pattern is Dm/Dm/Am/Am for the whole verse.
Bridge chords:
D : x0023x
A : x02220 (or 557775)
G : 320033 (or 355733)
F : 133211
Again, I put the alternative fingerings in parentheses because I'm not
exactly sure which is right, though either way sounds fine to me.
The pattern is A/G/F/D.
Now for the tab:
Intro Bridge [Repeat tbis part]
e
|--2--0h2-----2---------0h2-----2-----|--0h2-----2---------0h2-----2-----|
[B]
|-------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
[G]
|--2-------4-------2---------4-----2--|-------4-------2---------4-----2--|
[D]
|-------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
[A]
|-------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
[E]
|-------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
[Verse 1]:
These are all equal measures. The chords are strummed on the last
word of each measure.
Dm | Dm | Am
Staning here | The old man said to me | "Long before these crowded streets
Am | Dm | Dm
Here stood my dreaming tree" | Below it he would sit | For hours at a time
Am | Am | Dm
Now progress takes away | What forever took to find | Now he's falling hard
Dm | Am | Am
He feels the falling dark | How he longs to be | Beneath his dreaming tree
Dm | Dm |
Con[Am]quered fear to climb | A moment froze in time | When the girl who first
he kissed
Am | Dm |
[Dm]Promised him she'd be his | Remembered mother's words | There beneath the
tree
Am | Am | Dm
"No matter what the world | You'll always be my baby" | Mommy come quick
Dm | Am |
[Am]The dreaming tree has died | The air is growing thick | A fear he cannot
hide
The dreaming tree has [Dm]died
The song then goes into a part I don't dare try to tab - just strum the
Am/Dm chords along with it and occasionally pick a note here and there
along with what you hear.
[Cborus]: Start off with an A
A G | F | D
Oh have you no pity | This thing I do | I do not deny it
A | G | F
All through this smile | As crooked as danger | I do not deny
D | A | G
I know in my mind | I would leave you now | If I had the strength to
F | D | A
I would leave you up | To your own devices | Will you not talk
G | F | D A
Can you take pity | I don't ask much | But won't you speak Please
[Bridge]
[Verse 2]:
Dm | Dm | Am
Am | Dm |
F[Dm]or sure she'd make the grade | Adorers came in hordes | To lay down in
her wake
Am | Am | Dm
She gave it all she had | But treasures slowly fade | Now she's falling
hard
Dm | Am |
Sh[Am]e feels the fall of dark | How did this fall apart | She drinks to fill
it up
Dm | Dm |
[Am]A smile of sweetest flowers | Wilted so and soured | Black tears stain the
cheeks
Am | Dm |
That on[Dm]ce were so admired | She thinks when she was small | There on her
father's knee
Am | Am | Dm
How he had promised her | "You'll always be my baby" | "Daddy come quick
Dm | Am |
Th[Am]e dreaming tree has died | I can't find my way home | There is no place
to hide
The dreaming tree has [Dm]died"
Back to the picking/strumming like before.
[Cborus]: Again, start with an A
[A]Oh if I had the [G]strength...
[Bridge]
[Out]: This follows the same pattern as the verse [Dm/Dm/Am/Am]
Dm ... | Dm
Take me back ... | Save me please
Well, that's the song. Like I said, this is my first tab, so it's not
- Ken
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