e: Sun, 10 May 1998 18:07:14 -0400
From: Ken Dunnington
Subject: m/matthews_dave_band/the_dreaming_tree.tab
Song: The Dreaming Tree
Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Album: Before These Crowded Streets
Transcribed by: Ken Dunnington
Notes: This is from the new DMB album ‘Before These Crowded Streets’.
If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s worth a listen, though very different
from their other stuff. This is my first tab, so be gentle 🙂
All comments/corrections/complaints are welcome at [email protected].
Chords used:
I put both versions of the chords (where applicable) because I’m not
sure which one is correct, but they both sound good.
Verse chords:
Dm: x00231 (or 577555)
Am: x02210 (or 557765)
These two are played during the main verses while Dave sings.
The pattern is Dm/Dm/Am/Am for the whole verse.
Bridge chords:
D : x0023x
A : x02220 (or 557775)
G : 320033 (or 355733)
F : 133211
Again, I put the alternative fingerings in parentheses because I’m not
exactly sure which is right, though either way sounds fine to me.
The pattern is A/G/F/D.
Now for the tab:
Intro Bridge [Repeat this part]
e
|—2—0h2——2———0h2——2——|—0h2——2———0h2——2——|
B
|————————————-|———————————-|
G
|—2——-4——-2———4——2—|——-4——-2———4——2—|
D
|————————————-|———————————-|
A
|————————————-|———————————-|
E
|————————————-|———————————-|
[Verse 1]:
These are all equal measures. The chords are strummed on the last
word of each measure.
Dm | Dm | Am
Staning here | The old man said to me | «Long before these crowded streets
Am | Dm | Dm
Here stood my dreaming tree» | Below it he would sit | For hours at a time
Am | Am | Dm
Now progress takes away | What forever took to find | Now he’s falling hard
Dm | Am | Am
He feels the falling dark | How he longs to be | Beneath his dreaming tree
Dm | Dm |
Am
Conquered fear to climb | A moment froze in time | When the girl who first
he kissed
Am | Dm |
Dm
Promised him she’d be his | Remembered mother’s words | There beneath the
tree
Am | Am | Dm
«No matter what the world | You’ll always be my baby» | Mommy come quick
Dm | Am |
Am
The dreaming tree has died | The air is growing thick | A fear he cannot
hide
Dm
The dreaming tree has died
The song then goes into a part I don’t dare try to tab — just strum the
Am/Dm chords along with it and occasionally pick a note here and there
along with what you hear.
[Chorus]: Start off with an A
A G | F | D
Oh have you no pity | This thing I do | I do not deny it
A | G | F
All through this smile | As crooked as danger | I do not deny
D | A | G
I know in my mind | I would leave you now | If I had the strength to
F | D | A
I would leave you up | To your own devices | Will you not talk
G | F | D A
Can you take pity | I don’t ask much | But won’t you speak Please
[Bridge]
[Verse 2]:
Dm | Dm | Am
From the start | She knew she had it made | Easy up ’til then
Am | Dm |
Dm
For sure she’d make the grade | Adorers came in hordes | To lay down in
her wake
Am | Am | Dm
She gave it all she had | But treasures slowly fade | Now she’s falling
hard
Dm | Am |
Am
She feels the fall of dark | How did this fall apart | She drinks to fill
it up
Dm | Dm |
Am
A smile of sweetest flowers | Wilted so and soured | Black tears stain the
cheeks
Am | Dm |
Dm
That once were so admired | She thinks when she was small | There on her
father’s knee
Am | Am | Dm
How he had promised her | «You’ll always be my baby» | «Daddy come quick
Dm | Am |
Am
The dreaming tree has died | I can’t find my way home | There is no place
to hide
Dm
The dreaming tree has died»
Back to the picking/strumming like before.
[Chorus]: Again, start with an A
A G
Oh if I had the strength…
[Bridge]
[Out]: This follows the same pattern as the verse [Dm/Dm/Am/Am]
Dm … | Dm
Take me back … | Save me please
Well, that’s the song. Like I said, this is my first tab, so it’s not
perfect, and I welcome any feedback at [email protected]!
— Ken
