Learn and Play Music: Franklins Tower guitar chords - Grateful Dead tabs

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  From: Schof26@aol.com
  Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 23:57:43 -0500
  Subject: Franklin's Tower...From Bill
  
  This is how I learned "Franklin's Tower" by the Dead.  I don't know if the
  chords are right because a friend of mine showed me how to play it.  In any
  case, here it is:
  
  Artist:Greatful Dead
  Song: "Franklin's Tower"
  Album :Blues For Allah
  Written By:Robert Hunter (Words); Jerry Garcia and Bill Kreutzmann (Music)
  
  A: 002220     G:320033     D: 000323
  
  A                       G D                G       A                        G
     D                    G
  In another time's forgotten space, your eyes looked from your mother's face
  
  A                            G D                   G A
                                G D                       G
  Wild flower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow you safely
  home
  
  A             G    D  G A             G   D    G A           G   D    G A
             G    D       G
  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
  dew.
  
  A                      G D                     G  A                         G
   D                            G
  I'll tell you where the four winds dwell, in Franklin's Tower there hangs a
  bell
  
  A              G D                 G A                        G  D
                                  G
  It can ring, turn night to day, it can ring like fire when you lose your way
  
  A             G   D   G A             G   D   G  A           G    D   G A
             G    D        G
  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
  dew.
  
  A                         G  D                  G A
                                     G  D                        G
  God save the child who rings the bell, it may have one good ring; baby, you
  can't tell
  
  A                          G  D                  G  A                       G
   D                         G      
  One watch by night, one watch by day, if you get confused, listen to the
  music play
  
  A              G    D  G  A           G   D   G  A            G    D  G  A
             G    D         G
  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
  dew.
  
  A                            G  D              G A
                               G D                  G
  Some come to laugh thier past away, some come to make it one more day
  
  A                    G  D                    G A                  G D
                                      G
  Whichever way your pleasure tends, if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest
  wind
  
  A             G    D   G A            G    D  G  A            G   D   G  A
             G   D       G
  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
  dew.
  
  A                         G D                      G A
                            G D                           G
  In Franklin's Tower the four winds sleep, like four lean hounds the
  lighthouse keep
  
  A                      G D                       G  A
                               G  D                       G
  Wild flower seed in the sand and wind, may the four winds blow you home again
  
  A              G   D   G A            G   D   G  A           G    D   G  A
            G    D   
  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the dew.  Roll away the
  dew.
  
  
  This song could be dead solid perfect or totally wrong, I don't know.
  However, this is how I learned it and this is how I play it.  If it is
  totally wrong, at least the words are here.  That is all!
  
  No Worries!
  Bill Schofield (and Caroline)
  Schof26@aol.com  

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