From: D1N0
Subject: TAB Van Morrison - Astral Weeks


Artist: Van Morrison
Song:	Astral Weeks
Album: 	Astral Weeks
Year:	1968


This may be a nice little add-on to the already posted chord files! It is the
main riff played by the bass and later on, the guitar.


Standard Tuning

From the beginning, the bass

||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||
||----------------4-5--5--5-5-5-4---||
||--5--5--5-5-5-7-----------------7-||



In the song you clearly here the guitar playing the riff one octave higher:


"And pointing a finger at me. There you go" at 2:08:
||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||
||----------------6-7--7--7-7-7-6---||
||--7--7--7-7-7-9-----------------9-||
||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||



Offcourse, the variations continue throughout the song by guitar and bass.
Then it ends with the guitar playing some solo:


"in another place" at 6:43:

               slow bend up, then go down again
||---------- / -------||
||--------- / --------||
||-----5---5(6)5------||
||--/7---7--------7~~-||
||--------------------||
||--------------------||


"in another face" at 6:47:
                                       slowly bend up to 8 as
                                     / you pick it several times
||-----5--/7-5----5---------------- / ------||
||--/7----------7---7-5----------- / -------||
||----------------------7-5---5-7-7(8)------||
||--------------------------7-----------7~~-||
||------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------||


and at 6:52:

||--/7-/7-5----------------||
||--/7-/7-5----------------||
||-------------7(8)---5----||
||-----------7-------7-7~~-||
||-------------------------||
||-------------------------||


lots of fun and enjoy!! D1N0.



btw,
THIS IS THE CHORD FILE WITH LYRICS, ALREADY POSTED EARLIER BY DAN KOSCHALKA

VERSES:
A                              D
If I ventured in the slipstream
A                           D
Between the viaducts of your dream
A                    D
Where immobile steel rims crack
A                    D
And the ditch in the back roads stop

CHORUS:

A       F#m
Could you find me?
A       F#m
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
A       F#m
To lay me down
A       F#m
In silence easy
A        D
To be born again
A        D
To be born again

From the far side of the ocean
If I put the wheels in motion
And I stand with my arms behind me
And I'm pushin' on the door

Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again

There you go
Standin' with the look of avarice
Talkin' to Huddie Ledbetter
Showin' pictures on the wall
Whisperin' in the hall
And pointin' a finger at me
There you go, there you go
Standin' in the sun darlin'
With your arms behind you
And your eyes before

There you go
Takin' good care of your boy
Seein' that he's got clean clothes
Puttin' on his little red shoes
I see you know he's got clean clothes
A-puttin' on his little red shoes
A-pointin' a finger at me

And here I am
Standing in your sad arrest
Trying to do my very best
Lookin' straight at you
Comin' through, darlin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah

If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dreams
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop

Could you find me
Would you kiss-a my eyes
Lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again
To be born again
In another world
In another world
In another time
Got a home on high
Ain't nothing but a stranger in this world
I'm nothing but a stranger in this world
I got a home on high
In another land
So far away
So far away
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
In another time
In another place
In another time
In another place
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
We are goin' up to heaven
We are goin' to heaven
In another time
In another place
In another time
In another place
In another face