Biography:
Dave Matthews Band was formed in Charlottesville, VA in 1991 by South African native singer and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, the late LeRoi Moore, who played a wide variety of instruments from the saxophone to the flute, violin player Boyd Tinsley, drummer Carter Beauford, and keyboardist Peter Griesar (who left the band in 1993), all of whom Dave met in Charlottesville. In 1998, the band played shows with keyboardist Butch Taylor, although he was not officially a member of the band.
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- #41
- Ants Marching
- Belly Full
- Busted Stuff
- Cornbread
- Crash Into Me
- Crush
- Dive In
- Dodo
- Dream Girl
- Dreamgirl
- Everyday
- Funny The Way It Is
- Graduation Song
- Gravedigger
- Hunger For The Great Light
- If Only
- Lie In Our Graves
- Mercy
- Oh
- Proudest Monkey
- Satellite
- Snow Outside
- So Damn Lucky
- Some Devil
- Song That Jane Likes
- Stay Or Leave
- Sweet
- The Best Of What's Around
- The Maker
- Two Step
- Typical Situation
- Typical Situations
- Waste - Phish Cover
- Where Are You Going
- Where Are You Going?
- You And Me
- 2 Step
- 27
- 41
- A Dream So Real
- Again And Again
- Aint It Funny How Time Slips Away
- All Along The Watchtower
- American Baby
- Angel
- Before The Crowded Streets
- Belly Belly Nice
- Best Of Whats Around
- Big Eyed Fish
- Christmas Song
- Come On Come On
- Cortez The Killer
- Dancing Nancies
- Digging A Ditch
- Dont Drink The Water
- Down By The River
- Drunken Soilder
- Drunken Soldier
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Gaucho
- Grace Is Gone
- Granny
- Great Escape Live
- Grey Street
- I Did It
- Idea Of You
- Ill Back You Up
- Imagine
- Little Thing
- Long Black Veil
- Lover Lay Down
- Lying In The Hands Of God
- Old Dirt Hill Bring That Beat Back
- Old Dirt Road
- One Sweet World
- Pay For What You Get
- Pig
- Quick Lay
- Rapunzel
- Rhyme And Reason
- Samurai Cop Oh Joy Begin
- Satellite Simplified
- Save Me
- Say Goodbye
- Seek Up
- Sister
- So Much To Say
- So Right
- Space Between
- Spoon
- Stay Wasting Time
- Steady As We Go
- The Best Of Whats Around
- The Dreaming Tree
- The Song That Jane Likes
- The Space Between
- The Stone
- Tripping Billies
- Warehouse
- Wasting Time
- What Would You Say
- When Im Weary
- Why I Am
- Wild Horses
- Write A Song
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WHY I AM
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
Such a rockin' song
Standard Tuning
Chords Used
(FROM e TO E)
G| 330023
C| 01023-
Am/B ?(sort of)| 000-2-
F| 112331
Em| 000220
D| (DURING THE CHORUS ONLY-->) 2320-- (FOR INTRO ETC.--->) -320--
Am| 01220-
INTRO
F Em D C Am/B
MAIN RIFF
G C Am/B
G C Am/B
I grew from monkey into man,
G C Am/B G C Am/B
Then I crushed 15 million with a wave of my hand.
G C Am/B G C Am/B
I grew drunk on water turned into wine,
G C Am/B G C Am/B
'Till I was slave and master at the same damn time.
G C Am/B
It's why I am.
G C Am/B
It's why I am.
G C Am/B G C Am/B
Why I am, still here dancing with the GrooGrux King.
Em D (BACK TO VERSE) G C Am/B
REPLAY THE INTRO (F Em D C Am/B Am)
Out of my head and into the room hello.
BACK TO MAIN RIFF
W/Funky lil' fill I had to add:
e|12~----10-------------12-10----7-------8-7--|
B|---------12-12-12-12-12-----8~------------8-|
VERSE and CHORUS are pretty much the same...
F Em D C Am/B Am for this...
So when my ghost takes me from you.
You can remember the fool that I am.
F C
Don't cry baby,
Am/B G
Don't cry.
BRIDGE
F Am
It's the lose and the win of the world.
C
Wrong and right,
G
Us and them of the world.
F Am C
It's the you and the me of the world.
Em
But, Only one way out of the world.
F Am C
It's the lose and the win of the world.
Wrong and right,
G
Us and them of the world.
F Am C
It's the you and the me of the world.
G
Only one way out of the world.
Then MAIN RIFF for the solo (last go around of it has the F Em D C Am/B Am)
THEN CHORUS
THEN PLAY THE F Am C BIT ONCE
THEN BACK to the F Em D C Am/B Am 3x
F C
Don't cry baby,
Am/B F
Don't cry.
To end it all off...
G G G G
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
Such a rockin' song
Standard Tuning
Chords Used
(FROM e TO E)
G| 330023
C| 01023-
Am/B ?(sort of)| 000-2-
F| 112331
Em| 000220
D| (DURING THE CHORUS ONLY-->) 2320-- (FOR INTRO ETC.--->) -320--
Am| 01220-
INTRO
F Em D C Am/B
MAIN RIFF
G C Am/B
G C Am/B
I grew from monkey into man,
G C Am/B G C Am/B
Then I crushed 15 million with a wave of my hand.
G C Am/B G C Am/B
I grew drunk on water turned into wine,
G C Am/B G C Am/B
'Till I was slave and master at the same damn time.
G C Am/B
It's why I am.
G C Am/B
It's why I am.
G C Am/B G C Am/B
Why I am, still here dancing with the GrooGrux King.
Em D (BACK TO VERSE) G C Am/B
REPLAY THE INTRO (F Em D C Am/B Am)
Out of my head and into the room hello.
BACK TO MAIN RIFF
W/Funky lil' fill I had to add:
e|12~----10-------------12-10----7-------8-7--|
B|---------12-12-12-12-12-----8~------------8-|
VERSE and CHORUS are pretty much the same...
F Em D C Am/B Am for this...
So when my ghost takes me from you.
You can remember the fool that I am.
F C
Don't cry baby,
Am/B G
Don't cry.
BRIDGE
F Am
It's the lose and the win of the world.
C
Wrong and right,
G
Us and them of the world.
F Am C
It's the you and the me of the world.
Em
But, Only one way out of the world.
F Am C
It's the lose and the win of the world.
Wrong and right,
G
Us and them of the world.
F Am C
It's the you and the me of the world.
G
Only one way out of the world.
Then MAIN RIFF for the solo (last go around of it has the F Em D C Am/B Am)
THEN CHORUS
THEN PLAY THE F Am C BIT ONCE
THEN BACK to the F Em D C Am/B Am 3x
F C
Don't cry baby,
Am/B F
Don't cry.
To end it all off...
G G G G
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