The Dreaming Treev6

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Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:07:14 -0400

From: Ken Dunnington

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Subject: m/matthews_dave_band/the_dreaming_tree.tab

Song: The Dreaming Tree

Artist: Dave Matthews Band

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Album: Before These Crowded Streets

Transcribed by: Ken Dunnington

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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 :)

All comments/corrections/complaints are welcome at gish@poboxes.com.

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 this part]

e

[Verse 1]:

These are all equal measures. The chords are strummed on the last

word of each measure.

Staning here | The old man said to me | "Long before these crowded streets

Here stood my dreaming tree" | Below it he would sit | For hours at a time

Now progress takes away | What forever took to find | Now he's falling hard

He feels the falling dark | How he longs to be | Beneath his dreaming tree

Conquered fear to climb | A moment froze in time | When the girl who first

he kissed

Promised him she'd be his | Remembered mother's words | There beneath the

tree

"No matter what the world | You'll always be my baby" | Mommy come quick

The dreaming tree has died | The air is growing thick | A fear he cannot

hide

The dreaming tree has 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.

[Chorus]: Start off with an A

Oh have you no pity | This thing I do | I do not deny it

All through this smile | As crooked as danger | I do not deny

I know in my mind | I would leave you now | If I had the strength to

I would leave you up | To your own devices | Will you not talk

Can you take pity | I don't ask much | But won't you speak Please

[Bridge]

[Verse 2]:

>From the start | She knew she had it made | Easy up 'til then

For sure she'd make the grade | Adorers came in hordes | To lay down in

her wake

She gave it all she had | But treasures slowly fade | Now she's falling

hard

She feels the fall of dark | How did this fall apart | She drinks to fill

it up

A smile of sweetest flowers | Wilted so and soured | Black tears stain the

cheeks

That once were so admired | She thinks when she was small | There on her

father's knee

How he had promised her | "You'll always be my baby" | "Daddy come quick

The dreaming tree has died | I can't find my way home | There is no place

to hide

The dreaming tree has died"

Back to the picking/strumming like before.

[Chorus]: Again, start with an A

Oh if I had the strength...

[Bridge]

[Out]: This follows the same pattern as the verse [Dm/Dm/Am/Am]

Take me back ... | Save me please

Well, that's the song. Like I said, this is my first tab, so it's not

perfect, and I welcome any feedback at gish@poboxes.com!

- Ken

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