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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 16:45:59 -0700
From: Doug Landry 
Subject: TAB: "Tripping Billies" by The Dave Matthews Band

Tripping Billies by Dave Matthews off the Crash
(track #11) or Remember Two Things (track # 2:  live version) albums.
Transcribed by Terry Landry (tlandry@acad.udallas.edu, or landdug@why.net)

~~~~~~= vibrato          N.C.= no chord

INTRO (octaves) (rhy. fig. 1)
   A    B    A    B   D   C# A   B     A   B  C#   D  A   B
E|--------------------10--9--------------------9--10---------|
B|-10--12----10--12----------10--12----10--12---------10--12-|
G|---------------------7--6--------------------6---7---------|
D|--7---9-----7---9-----------7---9-----7---9----------7---9-|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------|

    A   B     D  C# A   B     A   B   C#  D
E|-----------10--9--------------------9--10--|
B|--10--12----------10--12----10--12---------|
G|------------7--6--------------------6---7--|
D|---7---9-----------7---9-----7---9---------|
A|-------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|

FIRST VERSE (chords) (rhy. fig. 2)
A        D     G                 D            A          D       G      (A  B octaves)
We were above, you were standing underneath us.  We were not yet lovers.
A            D       G          D                  A    D           G     (A  B octaves)
Dragons were smoked, bumblebees were stinging us.  I was soon to be crazy.

FIRST CHORUS (chords and riff) (rhy. fig. 3)
     D          A                         ~~~~
Eat, drink, and be merry.    E|---------------|
    D        A               B|---------------|
For tomorrow we die.         G|---------------|
     D          A            D|---------------|
Eat, drink, and be merry.    A|--------0--2---|