Uncle John's Band
Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter

Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead
1970

BMG sent me this CD, because I needed some Dead.
So I've got it and now so do you.  I hope this
song gets some use.  It is rather confusing but
play along and you'll get it.  Enjoy!

INTRO:

G

these chords are Figure 1

         G                                         C        G
Well the first days are the hardest days don't you worry anymore
      G                                         C              G
Cause when life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door
Am                        Em
Think this through with me
C                    D
Let me know you're mine
C  D          G       C  G    D       G
Wo-oah what I want to know is are you kind

play Figure 1
It's a buck dancer's choice my friend better take my advice
You know all the rules by now and the fire from the ice
Will you come with me
Won't you come with me
Wo-oah, what I want to know will you come with me

these chords are Figure 2

G                      C  Am       Em         D
   Goddamn well I declare have you seen the like
      C                                    G     D         C        D
Their walls are built of cannonballs their motto is "don't tread on me"
G                      C    Am      Em     D
Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide
C                             G       D        C        D
Come with me or go alone he's come to take his children home

G	Bm	C	D
G	Bm	C	D
G	Bm	C	D
G	Bm	C	D

play Figure 1
It's the same story the crow told me it's the only one he know
Like the morning sun you come and like the wind you go
Ain't no time to hate
Barely time to wait
Wo-oah what I want to know where does the time go

play Figure 1
I live in a silver mine and I call it "Beggar's Tomb"
I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune
Anybody's choice
I can hear your voice
Wo-oah what I want to know how does the song go

play Figure 2
Come hear Uncle John's Band by the riverside
Got some things to talk about here beside the rising tide
Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone he's come to take his children home

here's the bridge part

Dm	C  Dm
Dm	C  Dm
Dm	C  Dm
Dm	C  Dm
D


D                         C             G
Wo-oah what I want to know how does the song go

a-capella 1st half, then play Figure 2 during second half
Come hear Uncle John's Band by the riverside
Got some things to talk about here beside the rising tide
Come hear Uncle John's Band playing to the tide
Come on along or go alone he's come to take his children home

play bridge part

D	C  D
D	C  D

end on D