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Grateful+Dead - Ripple

From: BJCURRY@MECHANICAL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (Brent Curry)
Subject: CRD:Ripple by the Grateful Dead

After posting a request for Chords or Tab to Ripple I got two
great responses through private e-mail.  The first came from
Prashant Andrade  (andrade@elm.circa.ufl.edu)

Ripple by Grateful Dead


       G                               C 
>If my words did glow ...
        C                             G
>and my tunes were played on ...
                   G                   C
>would you hear my voice come ...
           D       C                    G
>would you hold it near ...
>
>It's a hand-me-...
>
 Am         D
>Ripple in ...
                   C
>when there is no ...
     Am      D
>nor wind ...
>
>Reach out your hand if ...
>
Then I got mail from John Lockney who not only gave me the chords
(which are similar to Prashant's) but he also gave me some tablature.

Ripple by the Grateful Dead

sent by "John Lockney! (bs cmsc)" 

                 (G)
If my words ...
                  (C)
with the gold ...

and my tunes, ...
          
              (G)
on the harp ...


would you ...

                  (C)
come ...
  (G)             (D)
would you ...

 (C)          (G)
as it were ...


(same chords for next verse)


Chorus:

5th string 3 3 2  0

(Am)              (D)
Ripple  in ...

           (C)          (G)
WHen there is no ...

    (Am)     (D)
no wind...


Verse:

It's a hand me ...


This is the intro riff that leads into the verse:
                             
                        (G)
e------------------------
b------------------------
g------------------------
d------------------------0
a----2---------2----3-----             
e--------3----------------          


Hope this helps you out.  (It sure did.  Thank's John.)
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Brent Curry