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Tree By The River by Iron And Wine
Tree By The River
Chords used: Bb Eb Cm
[The chords can also be played on Capo 3 (as in the concert mentioned above) where you
will have following: G C Am (instead of Bb Eb Cm respectively)]
STANDARD TUNING
Intro:
|-----------|--------------|
|-----------|--------------|
|-----------|--------------|
|---------8-|------------8-|
|-----------|-------8-10---|
|-(6)-------|-(6)----------|
Bb Eb
||---------------------|-----------------------|
||o--------------------|-----------------------|
||---------------------|-----------------------|
||---------------------|-----------------------|
||o---8--10-10s12-10-8-|----10--12-12s13-12-10-|
||---------------------|-----------------------|
Cm Bb
|-----------------------|----------------------||
|-----------------------|---------------------o||
|-----------------------|----------------------||
|-----------------------|----------------------||
|----10--12-12s13-12-10-|----8--10-10s12-10-8-o||
|-----------------------|----------------------||
[This continues behind the singing]
Two chord progressions are present in the song:
I: Bb | Eb | Cm | Bb
II: Eb | Bb | Cm | Bb
[Chord progression I]
Bb Eb
Maryanne, do you remember
Cm
the tree by the river
Bb
when we were seventeen?
(same chords)
Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer
and the mare in the pasture
pitch black and baring its teeth.
I recall the sun in our faces,
stuck and leaning on braces,
and being strangers to change.
Radio and the bones we found frozen,
and all the thorns and the roses
beneath your window pane.
[Chord progression II]
Eb Bb
Now I'm asleep in a car, I mean the world
Cm
to a potty mouthed girl,
Bb
a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.
(same chords)
"Time isn't kind or unkind," you liked to say.
But I wonder to who
And what it is you're saying today.
Bb
Solo (02:20)
[Played over chord progression I]
Bb
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|---------3---------3---------3---------3--|
|--3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
Eb
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|--5b7-b7r5p3-----3h5--5b7r5-3-|
|------------/5---5----------5-|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
Cm Bb
|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------|
|-3/5-3-----3/5-5/7-7b8r7|----------3-5-3--3|
|------5-3-5-------------|8------3h5------5-|
|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------|
Bb
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|---------3---------3---------3---------3--|
|--3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---3h(4)h5---|
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
Eb
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|--5b7-b7r5p3-----3h5--5b7r5-3-|
|------------/5---5----------5-|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
Cm Bb
|------------------------|----------|
|------------------------|----------|
|-3/5-3-----3/5-5/7-7b8r7|----------|
|------5-3-5-------------|8---------|
|------------------------|----------|
|------------------------|----------|
[Chord progression II]
Now I'm asleep in a car, I mean the world
to a potty mouthed girl,
a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.
Time isn't kind or unkind, you liked to say.
But I wonder to who
And what it is you're saying today.
[Chord progression I]
Mary Anne, do you remember
the tree by the river
when we were seventeen?
Dark canyon road, I was coy in the half-moon;
happy just to be with you,
and you were happy for me.
Chord:
Bb: 688766
Eb: 668886
Cm: 335543
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version 2
Capo 3
Intro:
|------3---------------3--------------0---------------0--------|
|-0------------0---------------0-------------------------------|
|----------0-------0-------0-----0------------0----------------|
|----0-------0-------0-------0------------2-------2-------2----|
|-----------------------------------3-------3-------3-------3--|
|-3------3-------3-------3-------3------3-------3-------3------|
|------0------------------------------3-------3---------------|
|-0h1----------0-------1---------0--------------------0-------|
|----------0---0---0-------0----------------------0-----------|
|----2-------2-------2-------2------0-------0-------0-------0-|
|-0------0-------0-------0--------------0h2-------------0h2---|
|--------------------------------3--------------3-------------|
Verse:
|-----(3)--------------3----------------------------------------|
|--------------0-----------------------0---------------0--------|
|----0-------------0--------------0-----------(0)---------------|
|----0-------0-------0-------0----2--------2------(2)------2----|
|--------0h2-------------0h2---------3-------3-------3-------3--|
|-3--------------3----------------3------3-------3-------3------|
|-------0---------------0---------------------3---------------3-|
|-0h1-----------(0h)1-------------0-------------------0---------|
|-----------0---------------0----------0----------0-------------|
|-----2-------2-------2-------2------0------0-------0-------0---|
|-0-------0-------0-------0-------------0h2-------------0h2-----|
|---------------------------------3-------------3---------------|
(no h.o. second time)
Chorus:
|-------0----------------0---------------3-------3----------------|
|-0h1-----------1--0h1-----------1--0--------------------0--------|
|-----------0----------------0-----------------------0------------|
|-----2-------2--------2-------2-------0-------0-------0-------0--|
|-0-------0--------0-------0---------------0h2-------------0h2----|
|-----------------------------------3--------------3--------------|
Maryanne, do you remember, the tree by the
River, when we were seventeen?
The dark canyon wall, the call and the answer, and the mare in the
Pasture, pitch black and barin' its teeth.
I recall the sun in our faces, stuck and leaning on
Graces, and bein' strangers to change.
The radio and the bones we found frozen, an' all the thorns and the
Roses, beneath your window pane.
Chorus:
Now I'm asleep in a car, I mean the world, to a
Potty-mouth girl, a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.
"Time isn't kind or unkind," you liked to say. But I
Wonder to who, and what it is you're sayin' today.
Verse instrumental:
Ooooh, oo o ohh-hh-hh, oo o ohh-hh-hh, oo o o ooooooh x2
Repeat Chorus
Maryanne, do you remember, the tree by the
River, when we were seventeen?
The dark canyon road, I was coy in the half-moon, happy just to be
With you, and you were happy for me. (end G)
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version 3
Capo: 3
G C7
Mary Anne, do you remember
Am
the tree by the river
G
when we were seventeen?
G C7
Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer
Am
and the mare in the pasture
G
pitch black and baring its teeth.
G C7
I recall the sun in our faces,
Am
stuck and leaning on braces,
G
and being strangers to change.
G C7
Radio and the bones we found frozen,
Am
and all the thorns and the roses
G
beneath your window pane.
Am G
Now Im asleep in a car, I mean the world
Am
to a potty-mouth girl,
G
a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.
Am G
Time isnt kind or unkind, you liked to say.
Am
But I wonder to who
G
what it is youre saying today.
Bridge:
G C7 Am G X2
Am G
Now Im asleep in a car, I mean the world
Am
to a potty-mouth girl,
G
a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.
Am G
Time isnt kind or unkind, you liked to say.
Am
But I wonder to who
G
what it is youre saying today.
G C7
Mary Anne, do you remember
Am
the tree by the river
G
when we were seventeen?
G C7
Dark canyon road, I was coy in the half-moon;
Am
happy just to be with you,
G
and you were happy for me.
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version 4
The song has an easy fingerpicking pattern that you can pick up from listening to the
song (he mostly picks the lower strings of the chords). On the Am7 chord during the
chorus, he alternates on and off of the B-string first fret (relative to capo).
Capo 3rd Fret
Chords:
G 320001
C(#7) 33200x
Am7 x0201x
G C
Mary Anne, do you remember
Am7
the tree by the river
G
when we were seventeen?
G C
Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer
Am7
and the mare in the pasture
G
pitch black and baring its teeth.
I recall the sun in our faces,
stuck and leaning on braces,
and being strangers to change.
Radio and the bones we found frozen,
and all the thorns and the roses
beneath your window pane.
Am7 G
Now I’m asleep in a car, I mean the world
Am7
to a potty-mouth girl,
G
a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.
Am7 G
Time isn’t kind or unkind, you liked to say.
Am7
But I wonder to who
G
what it is you’re saying today.
Now I’m asleep in a car, I mean the world
to a potty-mouth girl,
a pretty pair of blue-eyed birds.
Time isn’t kind or unkind, you liked to say.
But I wonder to who
what it is you’re saying today.
Mary Anne, do you remember
the tree by the river
when we were seventeen?
Dark canyon road, I was coy in the half-moon;
happy just to be with you,
and you were happy for me.
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