Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Song: Blackbirds
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composers: Gretchen Peters & Ben Glover
Album: Blackbirds
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
31st Nov 2015
On the album track the predominant guitar is electic, and reminiscent
of Neil Young's style.
Below is a link to a live version where Gretchen's acoustic is the
only guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmSMqcmTZak
In the clip she plays the C chords with a bottom G note shape,
although she doesn't really emphasise it.
CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of F#m)
Here's the passing hammer-on riffs:
Em Esus4 Em Em Em/A Em/B
e |---0--0---0----0--0--0---| e |---0--0---0------|
B |---0--0---0----0--0--0---| B |---0--0---0------|
G |---0--0---0-h2-2--2-p0---| G |---0--0---0------|
D |---2--2---2----------2---| D |---2--2---2------|
A |---2--2------------------| A |---2--2---0-h2---|
E |---0--0------------------| E |---0--0----------|
C Cadd2 C F Fsus2 F
e |---0--0---0--0---| e |---1--1---1--1---|
B |---1--1---1--1---| B |---1--1---1--1---|
G |---0--0---0--0---| G |---2--2---0-h2---|
D |---2--2---0-h2---| D |---3--3---3--3---|
A |---3--3---3--3---| A |---3--3---3--3---|
E |---3--3---3--3---| E |---1--1---1--1---|
h = Hammer-on note p = Pull -off note
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Em = 022000 F = 133211 Em/B = x22000
Esus4 = 022200 Fsus2 = 133011 Dsus2 = xx0230
C = 332010 D = xx0232 Emadd9 = 022002
Cadd2 = 330010 Em/A = x02000
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=====================================================================*
[Intro]
Em Esus4 Em Em Esus4 Em
||: / / / /__/ | / / / /__/ :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
Em C Cadd2 C
The blackbirds came at dusk, and they roosted in the cane,
F Fsus2 F C Cadd2 C
Raised such a ruckus, that it shook my windowpane,
Em C Cadd2 C
And I’m covered up in dirt, and I stink of kerosene,
F C Em Esus4 Em Em Esus4 Em
And no matter what I do, I can’t get clean! | / / / /__/ |
[Verse 2]
Em C Cadd2 C
Last thing I remember was your footsteps in the hall,
F Fsus2 F C Cadd2 C
Whiskey in your voice, and a shotgun on the wall,
Em C Cadd2 C
Now there’s shadows in the shadows, there’s trouble in the cane,
F C Em
And there’s things you do that you just ...can’t ex - plain!
[Chorus]
C Em
Un - easy lies the head, un - faithful is the heart,
C D Em
Un - grateful, and un - lucky, and un - true,
C Em Em/A Em/B
And no one saw me come, and no one saw me go,
C D Em Esus4 Em
Only the blackbirds, ...and you!
[Verse 3]
Em C Cadd2 C
Come harvest in the cane fields the sky turns black with smoke,
F Fsus2 F C Cadd2 C
So I took our father’s gun, and a heavy piece of rope,
Em C Cadd2 C
And I left you lying there, like rotten fruit upon the ground,
F C Em
And I lit a torch, and I burned the whole thing down!
[Chorus]
C Em
Un - easy lies the head, un - faithful is the heart,
C D Em Emadd9 Em
Un - grateful, and un - lucky, and un - true,
C Em Em/A Em/B
And no one saw me come, and no one saw me go,
C D Em Esus4 Em
Only the blackbirds, ...and you!
[Break]
C D Dsus2
Ah, ah, ah---! Ah, ah - ah, ah---!
C D Dsus2
Ah, ah, ah---! Ah, ah - ah---!
Em E4 Em Em E4 Em
| / / / /__/ | / / / /__/ |
[Verse 4]
Em C Cadd2 C
Our father was a farmer, he planted fields of cane,
F Fsus2 F C Cadd2 C
He planted seeds of evil, and we harvested the shame,
Em C Cadd2 C
Oh, but I’m the last one standing, there’s no one left to tell,
F C Em
And when it’s my time I’ll see you both in hell!
[Chorus]
C Em
Un - easy lies the head, un - faithful is the heart,
C D Em Emadd9 Em
Un - grateful, and un - lucky, and un - true,
C Em Em/A Em/B
And no one saw me come, and no one saw me go,
C D Em Esus4 Em
Only the blackbirds, ...and you!
[Coda]
C Cadd2 C Em Em/A Em/B
And no one saw me come, and no one saw me go,
C D Em Esus4 Em
Only the blackbirds ...and you-----!
Em Esus4 Em Em Esus4 Emadd9
| / / / /__/ | / / / / | / ||
Artist: Gretchen Peters
Composers: Gretchen Peters & Ben Glover
Album: Blackbirds
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
31st Nov 2015
On the album track the predominant guitar is electic, and reminiscent
of Neil Young's style.
Below is a link to a live version where Gretchen's acoustic is the
only guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmSMqcmTZak
In the clip she plays the C chords with a bottom G note shape,
although she doesn't really emphasise it.
CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of F#m)
Here's the passing hammer-on riffs:
Em Esus4 Em Em Em/A Em/B
e |---0--0---0----0--0--0---| e |---0--0---0------|
B |---0--0---0----0--0--0---| B |---0--0---0------|
G |---0--0---0-h2-2--2-p0---| G |---0--0---0------|
D |---2--2---2----------2---| D |---2--2---2------|
A |---2--2------------------| A |---2--2---0-h2---|
E |---0--0------------------| E |---0--0----------|
C Cadd2 C F Fsus2 F
e |---0--0---0--0---| e |---1--1---1--1---|
B |---1--1---1--1---| B |---1--1---1--1---|
G |---0--0---0--0---| G |---2--2---0-h2---|
D |---2--2---0-h2---| D |---3--3---3--3---|
A |---3--3---3--3---| A |---3--3---3--3---|
E |---3--3---3--3---| E |---1--1---1--1---|
h = Hammer-on note p = Pull -off note
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Em = 022000 F = 133211 Em/B = x22000
Esus4 = 022200 Fsus2 = 133011 Dsus2 = xx0230
C = 332010 D = xx0232 Emadd9 = 022002
Cadd2 = 330010 Em/A = x02000
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
=====================================================================*
[Intro]
Em Esus4 Em Em Esus4 Em
||: / / / /__/ | / / / /__/ :|| [x2]
[Verse 1]
Em C Cadd2 C
The blackbirds came at dusk, and they roosted in the cane,
F Fsus2 F C Cadd2 C
Raised such a ruckus, that it shook my windowpane,
Em C Cadd2 C
And I’m covered up in dirt, and I stink of kerosene,
F C Em Esus4 Em Em Esus4 Em
And no matter what I do, I can’t get clean! | / / / /__/ |
[Verse 2]
Em C Cadd2 C
Last thing I remember was your footsteps in the hall,
F Fsus2 F C Cadd2 C
Whiskey in your voice, and a shotgun on the wall,
Em C Cadd2 C
Now there’s shadows in the shadows, there’s trouble in the cane,
F C Em
And there’s things you do that you just ...can’t ex - plain!
[Chorus]
C Em
Un - easy lies the head, un - faithful is the heart,
C D Em
Un - grateful, and un - lucky, and un - true,
C Em Em/A Em/B
And no one saw me come, and no one saw me go,
C D Em Esus4 Em
Only the blackbirds, ...and you!
[Verse 3]
Em C Cadd2 C
Come harvest in the cane fields the sky turns black with smoke,
F Fsus2 F C Cadd2 C
So I took our father’s gun, and a heavy piece of rope,
Em C Cadd2 C
And I left you lying there, like rotten fruit upon the ground,
F C Em
And I lit a torch, and I burned the whole thing down!
[Chorus]
C Em
Un - easy lies the head, un - faithful is the heart,
C D Em Emadd9 Em
Un - grateful, and un - lucky, and un - true,
C Em Em/A Em/B
And no one saw me come, and no one saw me go,
C D Em Esus4 Em
Only the blackbirds, ...and you!
[Break]
C D Dsus2
Ah, ah, ah---! Ah, ah - ah, ah---!
C D Dsus2
Ah, ah, ah---! Ah, ah - ah---!
Em E4 Em Em E4 Em
| / / / /__/ | / / / /__/ |
[Verse 4]
Em C Cadd2 C
Our father was a farmer, he planted fields of cane,
F Fsus2 F C Cadd2 C
He planted seeds of evil, and we harvested the shame,
Em C Cadd2 C
Oh, but I’m the last one standing, there’s no one left to tell,
F C Em
And when it’s my time I’ll see you both in hell!
[Chorus]
C Em
Un - easy lies the head, un - faithful is the heart,
C D Em Emadd9 Em
Un - grateful, and un - lucky, and un - true,
C Em Em/A Em/B
And no one saw me come, and no one saw me go,
C D Em Esus4 Em
Only the blackbirds, ...and you!
[Coda]
C Cadd2 C Em Em/A Em/B
And no one saw me come, and no one saw me go,
C D Em Esus4 Em
Only the blackbirds ...and you-----!
Em Esus4 Em Em Esus4 Emadd9
| / / / /__/ | / / / / | / ||
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