Here’s the chord index… (You hammer the Am chords throughout the song)
Am Am2 E D/G F G Dm C A#
0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 1
1 1 0 3 1 3 3 1 3
2 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 3
2 2 2 0 3 0 0 2 3
0 0 2 0 3 2 0 3 1
0 3 0 2 1 3 0 0 1
Am Am2
Cyrus Jones, 1810 to 1913.
F Am
Made his, great grandchildren believe you could live to a hundred & three.
Am Am2
Well, a hundred & three is forever when you’re just a little kid
F Am
So, Cyrus Jones lived forever.
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Am
Gravedigger
Am2
When you dig my grave.
E
Could you make it shallow.
Am Am2 D/G
So that I can feel the rain.
Am
Gravedigger.
—-
Am Am2
Muriel Stonewall, 1903 to 1954.
F Am
Lost both of her babies, in the second great war.
Am Am2
Now you should never have to watch as your only children are lowered in the
ground.
F Am
You should, never have to bury your own babies.
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CHORUSx1 (Add a few extra quickly timed hammers on the Am to go into the bridge.)
—
Dm F C G A
Ring around the rosie.
Dm F C G A
Pocket full of posey.
Dm F C G A
Ashes to ashes.
Dm F C G
We all fall down.
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CHORUSx1
—
Am Am2
Little Mikey Carson, 67 to 75.
F Am
Rode his, bike like the devil until the day he died.
Am Am2
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeez, oh, well.
F Am
1940 to 1990—2!
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CHORUSx1
—
(He changes his singing pattern for this version of the chorus)
Am Am2
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave.
E
Could you make it shallow.
Am Am2 D/G
So that I can feel the rain, I can feel the rain, oh.
Am Am2
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave.
E (Let ring)
Could you make it shallow.
Am Am2 D/G
So that I can feel the rain.
Am Am2 F E
Gravegigger.
Am Am2 F E
Am Am2 F (Let Ring)
Gravedigger
-That’s all there is to it. Pretty easy song to play. The other chords were a bit
mixed up. I admit I don’t know the names of all of them, but I do know how to play
them, so if you look at the little chord index I put in, this should should 100% correct.-
