I know this is posted elsewhere but I just wanted to post it in a cleaned up format:
Backwards Down the Number Line
Tom Marshall/Trey Anastasio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KWW4LX3bo
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5kup55
(Verse is in Gmaj, Chorus is in Cmaj)
C G
Happy happy oh my friend
D
Blow out candles once again
Am
Leave the presents all inside
SN: (E) (D) C
Take my hand and let's take a ride
D Dsus D
Backwards down the number line
Am
You were eight and I was nine
D
Do you know what happened there?
Am C
Do you know why we're still friends
G
Laughing all these many years
D
We pushed through hardships tasted tears
Am (E) (D) ©
Made a promise one to keep
C G
I can still recite it in my sleep
D Dsus D
Every time a birthday comes
Am
Call your friend and sing a song
C
Or whisper it into his ears
G
Or write it down, just don't miss a year
Chorus: (x2)
F C
You decide what it contains
G
How long it goes but this remains
F C
The only rule is it begins
G
Happy happy oh my friend
F C
You decide what it contains
G
How long it goes but this remains
F C G
The only rule is it begins
F C G
And all my friends come backwards down the number line x3
F C
All my friends
bass solo transcribed for guitar (thru the piano...don't have a bass)and repositioned it an octave above mike's bass due the guitar not having the range on the deeper octave notes like a bass. hope that makes sense.
lead into the G
G
e-|---------
B-|---------
G-|-5-4-----
D-|-----7-5-
A-|---------
E-|---------
then the solo begins...
F C G F C G F
e-|----------------------------------------------------------------8-8--
B-|-6-6-5-6-5------------------------------5-6-5-6-5---------5-6-5------
G-|-----------7-5-5-----5--------5---5---5-----------7-5---5------------
D-|-----------------5-5------5-7---7---7-----------------7--------------
A-|------------------------8--------------------------------------------
E-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
C G F C G F
e-|-5-7-5---5------------5-5---------------------------------
B-|-------8---8-8-5----8-----8-5-------5-6-8---5-6--6-5------
G-|-----------------5------------7-5-7-------7----------7-5--
D-|----------------------------------------------------------
A-|----------------------------------------------------------
E-|----------------------------------------------------------
C G
e-|--------------------
B-|--------------------
G-|-4-4-2--------------
D-|-------5-3-2--------
A-|-------------5-3----
E-|-----------------3--
F C G
And all my friends come backwards down the number line x3
F C to end