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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- 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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Intro: F Am C G
Verse:
Am C Em G
I saw a man on the side of the road
Am C
with a sign that read
Em G
will work for food'
Am C
Tried to look busy
G G/F#
til the light turned green
Am C Em
I saw a bear on TV
G Am
and his friends were all drowning
Am C G
cause their homes were turning to water
Am C G
A strange kinda sad big old bear
C Am
surely would happily eat me
G C G G/F#
he'd tear me to pieces that bear
Chorus:
D G
Wake up sleepy head
Em A
I think the suns a little brighter today
D G Em A
Smile and watch the icicles melt away and see the water rising
D G Em A
Summers here to stay and all those summer games will last forever
D G Em A
Go down to the shore kick off your shoes dive in the empty ocean
Verse:
Am C Em G Am C G
Tell me everything will be OK if I just stay on my knees and keep praying
G/F# C
believing in something
Am C Em G Am C G
Tell me everything is all taken care of by those qualified to take care of
G/F#
it all
Chorus:
D G
Wake up sleepy head
Em A
I think the suns a little brighter today
D G Em A
Smile and watch the icicles melt away and see the waters rising
D G Em A
Summers here to stay and that sweet summer breeze will blow forever
D G Em A
Go down to the shore kick off your shoes dive in the empty ocean
Bridge:
F Am C G
One day do you think we'll wake up in a world on it's way to getting
F Am C G
better and if so can you tell me how
Solo: F Am C G x2
Verse:
Am C Em G Am
I have been thinking that lately the blood is increasing
C C G G/F#
the tourniquets not keeping hold in spite of our twisting
Am C Em
though we would like to believe we are
G Am
we are not in control
C C G G/F#
though we would love to believe
Chorus:
D G
Wake up sleepy head
Em A
I think the suns a little brighter today
D G Em A
Smile and watch the icicles melt away and see the water rising
D G Em A
Summers here to stay and those sweet summer girls will dance forever
D G Em A
Go down to the shore kick off your shoes dive in the empty ocean
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