From: "Alastair Harden" 
Subject: p/pearl_jam/alive.crd
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:31:52 +0100

Alive by Pearl Jam
>From the album Ten
By Stone Gossard
(c)1991 Sony Music Entertainment

Transcribed by Alastair Harden 

This was inspired by the excellent transcription by Evan Cowan, in
that I went to play it from his tab and was faced with a 16 page
(no joke) transcription of every note in the song... I thought I
would condense it and ended up wholly re-transcribing it in a
busker-friendly fashion.  I laboriously typed out the lyrics then
then sat and removed them (diet-OLGA).  There is obviously a lead
part, but check Evan's tab for this.  It sounds like it's played
on an electro-acoustic 12-string, but that's just a guess.

Chords:These are as I play them and       EADGBe
       not necessarily the way they     A-577655--for verses+break
       are played on the CD         Asus4-577755
                                        F-x33211
                                        C-x32010
                                    Csus2-x32030
                                        E-022100
                                        G-320033
      E  A  D  G  B  e                  D-xx0232
B/F#-x  9  9  11 12 x                  A-x02220--for the chorus
B/D#-11 9  9  11 12 x                  B-799877
F#/C#-9  9  11 11 11 x              Bsus4-799977

--
Intro: (after lead)
     A Asus4 x6
     F C
--
Verse 1:
A  Asus4          A        Asus4
     Son, she said have... story for you
A  Asus4                 A   Asus4
     What you thought... daddy  was...
A  Asus4      A            Asus4
     While... home alone @ age thirteen
A  Asus4           A    Asus4
     Your real... dyin'...   sorry you didn't
     F     C Csus2  F           C
     see him...   glad we talked
--
Chorus:
     E    G     D        A
     I... Oh... I'm... alive   hey  x2
     E    G     D        A
     I... Oh... I'm... alive   hey oh
     B/F#         B/D#
--
Verse 2:
A  Asus4     A         Asus4
     While... across a young man's...
A  Asus4           A  Asus4
     She said I'm ready... for...
A  Asus4        A           Asus4
     I can't... anything... this very day
A  Asus4              A    Asus4
     'Cept the look... the look...
     F              C Csus2    F          C
     You know where     now   I can't see...
     E       G    D           A
     stare.  I... I'm still alive hey...
--
Repeat Chorus
--
Break:
B   B/D#      F#/C#     x4
--
Bridgey-middle 8 thing:
A Asus4     A      Asus4
     Is...  she said
          A  Asus4
     ...there is
        A     Asus4
     ...she said
                B  Bsus4
     ...deserve to be?
            B    Bsus4
     ...question?
                 B   Bsus4
     And if so... if so,
            B         Bsus4
     who answers? Who answers?
--
Repeat Chorus
--
Solo:
     E G D A xlots--see existing tab for eddie's solo.
--
Then cue the Queen-like drums on "why go"
--
There ya go- only 2 pages.
E-mail me with corrections, comments, money etc.