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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Other songs:
- 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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Artist: Gretchen Peters
Song: Wild horses
Composers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Album: The essential Gretchen Peters
Tabbed by: DJ
20th Mar 2013
Gretchen's live cover version of The Rolling Stones song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up8I-iBEbV8
CAPO: 3rd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Bb)
For the intro, in various performances Gretchen sometimes starts
with Dadd2/4 to C chords, other times she just starts from the G.
The Dadd2/4 chord is just the C shape 2 frets up.
From the G chord, (Ring finger on 6th string, middle on 5th string,
little finger on 1st string) hammer-on the C/G chords with
middle and index fingers together:
G C/G G
e |---3----3--3---|
B |---0---h1--0---|
G |---0----0--0---|
D |---0---h2--0---|
A |---2-----------|
E |---3-----------|
From the Csus2, hammer-on the C chords:
Csus2 C Csus2 C
e |--------0---------0---|
B |---1----1----1----1---|
G |---0----0----0----0---|
D |---0---h2----2---h2---|
A |---3----3----3----3---|
E |---3----3----3----3---|
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Dsus2/4 = x54030 Am = x02210
C = x32010 D = xx0232
G = 320003 F = 133211
C/G = 3x2013 Csus2 = 33001x
Bm = x24432 C = 332010
Asus2 = x02200
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
------------------------------------------------------------------
[Intro]
Dadd2/4 C G C/G G C/G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
Childhood living... is easy to do,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
The things you wanted...
G D
I bought them for you,
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
Graceless lady, you know who I am,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
You know I can't let you...
G D
...Slide through my hands!
[Chorus]
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way!
[Verse 2]
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
I watched you suffer... a dull aching pain,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
Now you've de - cided...
G D
...To show me the same,
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
No sweeping exits, or off - stage lines,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
Could make me feel bitter,
G D
Or treat you un - kind!
[Chorus]
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way!
[Break]
F C F C
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
I know I've dreamed you, a sin, and a lie,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
I have my freedom, but I...
G D
...I don't have much time,
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
Let's do some living...
G D
...After we've died!
[Chorus]
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild, wild horses... we'll ride them some day!
------------------------------------------------------------------
Below is an alternative longer instrumental break,
as used in the 'Wine, women and song' concert version-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHuOxi-SJRA
[Break]
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
| / / / / | / / / /__/ | / / / / | / / / /__/ |
Am Asus2 Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
| / / / /___/ | / / /___/ /___/ |
G C/G G D
| / / / /__/ | / / / / |
Song: Wild horses
Composers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Album: The essential Gretchen Peters
Tabbed by: DJ
20th Mar 2013
Gretchen's live cover version of The Rolling Stones song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up8I-iBEbV8
CAPO: 3rd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Bb)
For the intro, in various performances Gretchen sometimes starts
with Dadd2/4 to C chords, other times she just starts from the G.
The Dadd2/4 chord is just the C shape 2 frets up.
From the G chord, (Ring finger on 6th string, middle on 5th string,
little finger on 1st string) hammer-on the C/G chords with
middle and index fingers together:
G C/G G
e |---3----3--3---|
B |---0---h1--0---|
G |---0----0--0---|
D |---0---h2--0---|
A |---2-----------|
E |---3-----------|
From the Csus2, hammer-on the C chords:
Csus2 C Csus2 C
e |--------0---------0---|
B |---1----1----1----1---|
G |---0----0----0----0---|
D |---0---h2----2---h2---|
A |---3----3----3----3---|
E |---3----3----3----3---|
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Dsus2/4 = x54030 Am = x02210
C = x32010 D = xx0232
G = 320003 F = 133211
C/G = 3x2013 Csus2 = 33001x
Bm = x24432 C = 332010
Asus2 = x02200
Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks
------------------------------------------------------------------
[Intro]
Dadd2/4 C G C/G G C/G
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 1]
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
Childhood living... is easy to do,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
The things you wanted...
G D
I bought them for you,
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
Graceless lady, you know who I am,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
You know I can't let you...
G D
...Slide through my hands!
[Chorus]
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way!
[Verse 2]
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
I watched you suffer... a dull aching pain,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
Now you've de - cided...
G D
...To show me the same,
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
No sweeping exits, or off - stage lines,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
Could make me feel bitter,
G D
Or treat you un - kind!
[Chorus]
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way!
[Break]
F C F C
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 3]
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
I know I've dreamed you, a sin, and a lie,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
I have my freedom, but I...
G D
...I don't have much time,
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried,
Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
Let's do some living...
G D
...After we've died!
[Chorus]
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild----- horses... couldn't drag me a - way,
Am C G F C
Wild, wild horses... we'll ride them some day!
------------------------------------------------------------------
Below is an alternative longer instrumental break,
as used in the 'Wine, women and song' concert version-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHuOxi-SJRA
[Break]
Bm G C/G G Bm G C/G G
| / / / / | / / / /__/ | / / / / | / / / /__/ |
Am Asus2 Am C Csus2 C Csus2 C
| / / / /___/ | / / /___/ /___/ |
G C/G G D
| / / / /__/ | / / / / |
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