When You’re On Top
words and music by Jakob Dylan
tabbed by Ian ([email protected])
EADGBe
NOTE: There isn’t a guitar in the recording for the first verse
but live (Alcatraz) there’s a guitar playing one of the
keyboard parts.
Chords:
G=320003
D=XX0232
A=002220 -and*D=557775,G=355433*
Bm=X24432
E=022100
INTRO (keyboard arr for guitar)
E—————————————-
B—————————————-E
G—————————————-
D-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0————C
A—————————————-
E—————————————-T
G
I need a bed
D
That nobody’s slept in
G
I need some air
D
That nobody’s been breathing
G
I need a thought
D
That I can believe in
A
Is this fog
Or is the building really burning
G
I need you now
D
Much more than ever
G
I’m making new friends
D
But none of them matter
G
Maybe now
D
We don’t fit together
A
But you’ve got your arms around
No one but strangers
(chorus)
D
I feel fine
G
With the sun in my eyes
D
The wind in my hair
G
When I ‘m falling out of this sky
D G
I’m doing better than I thought I would
D
But nothing’s ever as good
G
As when you’re on top
I want to wake up
And just start running
Into a ditch
Or straight up a mountain
I want to get
Where no ones’s been gettin’
Make it deeper than hell
Or make it higher than heaven
I need someone whose price hasn’t been met
When everybody’s disappearing
By the minute
There isn’t anyone left
That I haven’t met yet
Well I remember
When they hadn’t gotten to you yet
(chorusx2)
(bridge)
Bm
Half way up
G
And over this rainbow
D
I heard a shot
A
Fire up from the ghetto
Bm
As I drop
G
I didn’t think you’d follow
E
Just didn’t know D….G…..D…..G
The sky was this shallow
(solo
use tremalo)
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D-7ttt-9-7t-9-10tt——————————————
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E———————————————————-
play around with those notes.
I need a garden
Where nothings forbidden
I need an apple
That no one’s been eatin’
I want to start again
Back at the beginin’
I had a vision
That this feeling maybe has an ending
(Chorus)
DURING VERSE
G D
E-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
B-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-
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D———————————
A———————————
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DURING CHORUS (you could just pick these or change chord(see top)
*D *G
E-5~~~-3~~~-
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D————
A————
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Enjoy!
