Biography:
Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941; died April 22, 2013) was an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best remembered for his intense, rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Havens moved to Greenwich Village in 1961 in time to get in on the folk boom then taking place. Havens had a distinctive style as a folksinger
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Other songs:
- I Can't Make It Anymore
- Ooh Child
- Paradise
- Alone Together
- Fire And Rain
- Follow
- Freedom
- Gay Cavalier
- God Bless The Child
- Going Back To My Roots
- Handsome Johnny
- Helplessly Hoping
- Here Comes The Sun
- High Flyin Bird
- I Cant Make It Anymore
- Just Like A Woman
- Nobody Left To Crown
- On The Road To Calvary
- One More Day
- Stardust And Passion
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- You'll Never Know
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Tuning: D-A-D-F-A-D
Bar 9th fret for Bm
2nd fret for Em
4th for F#m
F# is 444544
and F#7 is 4x4554 or 444574, i like the latter
This is how Richie plays it and its easiest
[Verse 1]
Bm Bm
(Freedom, Freedom) (x8) times
Bm Bm
Sometimes I fell like I'm a Motherless child
Em Bm
Sometimes I fell like I'm a Motherless child
Bm
Sometimes I fell like I'm a Motherless child
F#m F#
a long long long....way......
F#7 Bm
way-ayye from my Home.... Yeah!
(continue the same way)
[Bridge]
(Freedom, Freedom) (x10)
(Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone) (x3)
Yeah , a long long long way
way-ayye from my Home.... Yeah!
[Chorus]
Bm
(Clap your hands) (x8)
Bm
(Yeah, Yeah) (x10)
Bm
(I got a telephone in my bossom and i can call him up from my heart) (x2)
Bm
When I need my brother, I say Brother! (brother) Brother! (brother)...
.....[Mother (mother) Mother (mother)] (x2) times
Yeah...Yeah...
Yeah...Yeah.........to fade *phew*
Bar 9th fret for Bm
2nd fret for Em
4th for F#m
F# is 444544
and F#7 is 4x4554 or 444574, i like the latter
This is how Richie plays it and its easiest
[Verse 1]
Bm Bm
(Freedom, Freedom) (x8) times
Bm Bm
Sometimes I fell like I'm a Motherless child
Em Bm
Sometimes I fell like I'm a Motherless child
Bm
Sometimes I fell like I'm a Motherless child
F#m F#
a long long long....way......
F#7 Bm
way-ayye from my Home.... Yeah!
(continue the same way)
[Bridge]
(Freedom, Freedom) (x10)
(Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone) (x3)
Yeah , a long long long way
way-ayye from my Home.... Yeah!
[Chorus]
Bm
(Clap your hands) (x8)
Bm
(Yeah, Yeah) (x10)
Bm
(I got a telephone in my bossom and i can call him up from my heart) (x2)
Bm
When I need my brother, I say Brother! (brother) Brother! (brother)...
.....[Mother (mother) Mother (mother)] (x2) times
Yeah...Yeah...
Yeah...Yeah.........to fade *phew*
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