Date: 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 gish@poboxes.com.

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 gish@poboxes.com!