You Got To Die (Just Well To Get Ready)
trad./ Blind Willie McTell
tab by metonymo from McTell’s album Atlanta Twelve String
Intro:
G C G C G
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-------------------------------1---0-0^----1-----------|
------0---0^-----0-2-3b--0-----0---0-0^----0-b2-0------|
--0h2-----0^-------------0--/2---0---0^--2------0------|
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Riff 1
C G
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----1------0^--|
----0-b2-0-0^--|
--2------0-0^--|
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Riff 2
--1/3\1----------------------------------------|
--------1/3\1----3b----3--3^-------3----3--3^--|
--------------/4-----4-4--4^----/4---4--4--4^--|
-----------------------5--5^------------5--5^--|
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Riff 3
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----------------1---0-0^----1------0^--|
--0-2-3b--0-----0---0-0^----0-b2-0-0^--|
----------0--/2---0---0^--2------0-0^--|
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get ready(you got to die)you got to die
Descending bass, variations:
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--5----------4---------3---(/12v)- --5----4----3-----2-------|
can't - minute - hour can't tell-minute-nor-hour
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/b/blind-willie-mctell/115244.html ]
h hammer down
^ strum (the other parts in the riffs and intro are plucked;
strumming changes the sound)
b bend
p pull
/ slide up
\ slide down
v vibrate
Chords:
C x32010
G 320003/xx543x
Intro G C G C G
G C G riff 1
And, you just well get ready, for you got to die
G riff 2
Just well and get ...
G Descending bass (or C) G
For it may be tomorrow, Lord, you can't tell the minute nor the hour
G riff 3
Well, you just well get ready, ... you got die
So, you just well to love your enemies, you got to die
Just well to love your ...
For it may be tomorrow, Lord, you can't tell the minute nor the hour
Just well and get ready, you got to die
So, you just well to live in union, you got to die
Just well to live in ...
For it may be tomorrow, well, you can't tell the minute nor the hour
Well, you just well ...
So, you just well to live a christen, you got to die
Just well to live a ...
Then it may be tomorrow, Lord, you can't tell the minute nor the hour
Just well ...
So, you just well to love your neighbour, you got to die
Just well to love your ...
Then it may be tomorrow, Lord, you can't tell the minute nor the hour
Well, just well get ready, you got to die
So, you just well to love your members, so you got to die
Just well to love your ...
Then it may be tomorrow, Lord, you can't tell the minute nor the hour
Well, you just well to get ready, you got to die, you got to ...
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Full text with chords:
G C G C G
And, you just well get ready, for you got to die, you got to die
G C G C G
Just well and get ready for you got to die, you got to die
G C G
For it may be tomorrow, Lord, you can't tell the minute nor the hour
G C G C G
Well, you just well get ready, you got to die, you got die
