St Stephen
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
Notes:
Link: https://youtu.be/xZ5TftMTPOE
Jam ideas included. Modeled after Live/Dead (1969) St.Stephen
Time properly with lead intro (takes practice and listening]
[Intro]
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[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 1]
E D
Saint Stephen with a rose
A E
In and out of the garden he goes
E D
Country garland in the wind and the rain
A N.C.
Wherever he goes the people all complain
[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 2]
E D
Did Stephen prosper in his time?
A E
Well he may, and he may decline
E D
Did it matter, does it now?
A N.C.
Stephen would answer if he only knew how
[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 3]
E D
Wishing well with a golden bell
A E
Bucket hanging clear to hell
E D
Hell half way twixt now and then
A N.C.
Stephen fill it up and lower down, and lower down again
[Bridge]
E D A E
Lady finger, dipped in moonlight
D A E D
Writing "What for?" across the morning sky
E D A E
Sunlight splatters dawn with answers
D A E D
Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye
E D A E
Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow
D A E D
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned
E D A E
Several seasons with their treasons
D A E D
Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own
[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 4]
E D
Did he doubt or did he try?
A E
Answers a-plenty in the by and by
E D
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills
A N.C.
One man gathers what another man spills
(land hard, solo jam)
[Jam]
E D A
[Verse 5]
E A
Saint Stephen will remain
A E
All he's lost he shall regain
E D
Seashore washed by the suds and the foam
A N.C.
Been here so long he's got to calling it home
[Verse 6]
E
Fortune comes a-crawling, Calliope woman
D A E
Spinning that curious sense of your own
E D
Can you answer? Yes I can
A E D
But what would be the answer to the answer man?
(William Tell Bridge)
(Piano intro)
Bb -> B (half step slide) x4
[Bridge]
B
High green chilly winds and windy
B
vines in loops around the twining
B
shafts of lavender they're crawling
A B
to the sun
B
Wonder who will water all the
B
children of the garden when they
B
sigh about the barren lack of
B A
rain and droop so hungry 'neath the
B A
sky, -ay)
Bb -> B (half step slide) x4
B
Underfoot the ground is patched with
Abm A
climbing arms of ivy wrapped a
B
round the manzanita stark and
A F#m
shiny in the breeze
E B
William Tell has stretched his bow till
Abm A
it won't stretch no furthermore
B Abm
And/or it may require a change that
F#m D
hasn't come before
(The Eleven)
[Jam]
B D E
B embellish:
e|---------------|
B|----7h8p7------|
G|----------9----|
D|---------------|
A|---------------|
E|---------------|
After lead starts doing:
e|--------------------------------------|
B|------------------15------------17----|
G|----16--15h16p15------15h16p15--------|
D|--------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------|
AAA DDD EEE DD
(Jam: 123, 123, 123, 12)
A D E D A D E D
No more time to tell how, this is the season of what,
A D E D
(Eight sided whispering Hallelujah Hatrick)
A D E D
Now is the time of returning with thought Jewels
A D E D
Polished and gleaming.
A D E D
(Six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow)
A D E D
Is the time past believing
A D E D
the child has relinquished the rein,
A D E D
(Five men writing with fingers of gold)
A D E D
Now is the test of the boomerang
A D E D
(Four girls waiting in the foreign dominion)
A D E D
Tossed in the night of redeeming
A D E D
(Riding in the whalebelly fade away in the moonlight)
A D E D
(Sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below)
AAA DDD EEE DD
(Jam: 123, 123, 123, 12)
(around 8:00 minute mark)
[Outro]
Em D (still in 11/8)
|------Em-----|DD
(Jam: 123, 123, 123, 12
(Repeat and fade)
How to play St Stephen
Use the controls above to change the key and text size. Follow the highlighted chords while listening, then practice each section slowly before playing at the original tempo.
What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.