Dire Wolf
Grateful Dead
Version from Reckoning
Original keys: C on Reckoning, A on Workingman's Dead.
(I perform this song in D, and originally wrote this chart for my bassist.
This arrangement is offered as a freebieLearn Guitar Playing the Hits - Lyric/chord sheets.-GW)
Intro: / A / G / D / D /
A C G
In the timbers to Fennario, the wolves are running round,
A
The winter was so hard and cold, froze ten feet 'neath the ground.
G D F#7 G A G D
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
A C G
I sat down to my supper, 'twas a bottle of red whiskey,
D Db C Bm
I said my prayers and went to bed, that's the last they saw of me.
A D F#7 G A G D
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
Bm A D C G
When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin,
A
Was grinning at my window, all I said was "Come on in".
G D F#7 G A G D
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
Bm A D C G
The Wolf came in, I got my cards, we sat down for a game.
A
I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades, but the cards were all the same.
G A F#7 Bm A G D
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
(The guitar solo follows the chord pattern of the first verse)
A C G
In the backwash of Fennario, the black and bloody mire,
A
The Dire Wolf collects his dues, while the boys sing 'round the fire.
A D F#7 Bm A G D
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
Bm A D
No, no, no don't murder me. I beg of you,
F#7 G A G D
Don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
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