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Iron & Wine - Tree by the River

Chord diagram for Bb
Chord diagram for Eb
Chord diagram for Cm
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 {t:Tree by the River}
 {st:Iron & Wine}
 
 It will be featured on the new album "Kiss each other clean" releasing on January 25, 2011.
 I have updated this tab after a quick look at Sam Beam's "Tiny Desk Concert" on NPR
 
 Chords used: Bb Eb Cm
 [The chords can also be played on Capo 3 (as in the concert mentioned above) where you
 will have following: G C Am (instead of Bb Eb Cm respectively)]
 
 STANDARD TUNING
 
 Intro:
 
 
 {sot}
 |-----------|--------------|
 |-----------|--------------|
 |-----------|--------------|
 |---------8-|------------8-|
 |-----------|-------8-10---|
 |-(6)-------|-(6)----------|
 {eot}
 
 [Bb] [Eb] 
 {sot}
 ||---------------------|-----------------------|
 ||o--------------------|-----------------------|
 ||---------------------|-----------------------|
 ||---------------------|-----------------------|
 ||o---8--10-10s12-10-8-|----10--12-12s13-12-10-|
 ||---------------------|-----------------------|
 {eot}
 
 [Cm] [Bb] 
 {sot}
 |-----------------------|----------------------||
 |-----------------------|---------------------o||
 |-----------------------|----------------------||
 |-----------------------|----------------------||
 |----10--12-12s13-12-10-|----8--10-10s12-10-8-o||
 |-----------------------|----------------------||
 {eot}
 
 [This continues behind the singing]
 
 Two chord progressions are present in the song:
 I: Bb | Eb | Cm | Bb
 II: Eb | Bb | Cm | Bb
 
 [Chord progression I]
 [Bb] Maryanne, do you re[Eb]member
 the tree by the r[Cm]iver
 when we were seve[Bb]nteen?
 
 (same chords)
 Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer
 and the mare in the pasture
 pitch black and baring its teeth.
 
 I recall the sun in our faces,
 stuck and leaning on braces,
 and being strangers to change.
 
 Radio and the bones we found frozen,
 and all the thorns and the roses
 beneath your window pane.
 
 [Chord progression II]
 [Eb] Now I'm asleep in a c[Bb]ar, I mean the world
 to a po[Cm]tty mouthed girl,
 a pretty pair of blue-eyed b[Bb]irds.
 
 (same chords)
 "Time isn't kind or unkind," you liked to say.
 But I wonder to who
 And what it is you're saying today.
 
 [Bb] 
 Solo (02:20)
 [Played over chord progression I]
 [Bb] 
 {sot}
 |------------------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------------|
 |---------3---------3---------3---------3--|
 |--3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---|
 |------------------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------------|
 {eot}
 [Eb] 
 {sot}
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 |--5b7-b7r5p3-----3h5--5b7r5-3-|
 |------------/5---5----------5-|
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 {eot}
 [Cm] [Bb] 
 {sot}
 |------------------------|------------------|
 |------------------------|------------------|
 |-3/5-3-----3/5-5/7-7b8r7|----------3-5-3--3|
 |------5-3-5-------------|8------3h5------5-|
 |------------------------|------------------|
 |------------------------|------------------|
 {eot}
 [Bb] 
 {sot}
 |------------------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------------|
 |---------3---------3---------3---------3--|
 |--3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---|
 |------------------------------------------|
 |------------------------------------------|
 {eot}
 [Eb] 
 {sot}
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 |--5b7-b7r5p3-----3h5--5b7r5-3-|
 |------------/5---5----------5-|
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 {eot}
 [Cm] [Bb] 
 {sot}
 |------------------------|----------|
 |------------------------|----------|
 |-3/5-3-----3/5-5/7-7b8r7|----------|
 |------5-3-5-------------|8---------|
 |------------------------|----------|
 |------------------------|----------|
 {eot}
 
 [Chord progression II]
 Now I'm asleep in a car, I mean the world
 to a potty mouthed girl,
 a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.
 
 Time isn't kind or unkind, you liked to say.
 But I wonder to who
 And what it is you're saying today.
 
 [Chord progression I]
 Mary Anne, do you remember
 the tree by the river
 when we were seventeen?
 
 Dark canyon road, I was coy in the half-moon;
 happy just to be with you,
 and you were happy for me.
 
 
 Chord:
 Bb: 688766
 Eb: 668886
 Cm: 335543

    

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