Title: Grave Digger
Artist: Dave Matthews
Tabbed by: Justin Behling


  Intro
Am G E Am G D/F# Am Am

  Verse
Am            G                            
Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913
F                                        Am     
Made his great grandchildren believe you could live to a hundred and three
Am                             G
A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid
F                       Am
So Cyrus Jones lived forever

  Chorus
      Am  
Grave digger 
                G
When you dig my grave
                  E
Could you make it shallow
         Am       G       D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
      Am    Am
Grave digger

  Verse
Am                     G  
Meerielle Stonewall 1903 to 1954
F                                  Am 
She lost both of her babies in the second great war
               Am                                G          
Now you should never have to watch your own children lowered in the grownd
                 F                            Am   
I mean you should never have to burry your own babies

  Chorus
      Am  
Grave digger 
                G
When you dig my grave
                  E
Could you make it shallow
         Am       G       D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
      Am    Am
Grave digger

  Bridge
Dm              F    C  G Bb
Ring around the rosie
Dm             F    C  G Bb
Pocket full of posie
Dm       F    C  G Bb
Ashes to ashes
Dm  F    C        G 
      We all fall down

  Chorus
      Am  
Grave digger 
                G
When you dig my grave
                  E
Could you make it shallow
         Am       G       D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
      Am    Am
Grave digger

  Verse
   Am                     G
Now little Mikey Carson '67 to '75
          F                                Am          
He rode his bike like the devil untill the day he died
              Am                                  G            
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeez
  F          Am   
Oh 1940 to 1992

  Chorus
      Am  
Grave digger 
                G
When you dig my grave
                  E
Could you make it shallow
         Am       G       D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
         Am  
Oh Grave digger 
               G
When you dig my grave
                  E
Could you make it shallow
             Am            G                   D/F#
So that I can feel the rain I can feel the rain I can feel the rain
      Am  
Grave digger 
                G
When you dig my grave
                  E
Could you make it shallow
             Am         G   D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
      Am    G F E
Grave digger

Am G F E

Am G F E

      Am    G F 
Grave digger