Alive by Pearl Jam
From the album Ten
By Stone Gossard
(c)1991 Sony Music Entertainment
Transcribed by Alastair Harden
This was inspired by the excellent transcription by Evan Cowan, in
that I went to play it from his tab and was faced with a 16 page
(no joke) transcription of every note in the song... I thought I
would condense it and ended up wholly re-transcribing it in a
busker-friendly fashion. I laboriously typed out the lyrics then
part, but check Evan's tab for this. It sounds like it's played
on an electro-acoustic 12-string, but that's just a guess.
Chords:These are as I play them and EADGBe
not necessarily the way they -577655--for verses+break
are played on the CD -577755
-x33211
-x32010
-x32030
-022100
-320033
e -xx0232
-x 9 9 11 12 x -x02220--for the chorus
-11 9 9 11 12 x -799877
-9 9 11 11 11 x -799977
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(after lead)
x6
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Son, she said have... story for you
What you thought... daddy was...
While... home alone @ age thirteen
Your real... dyin'... sorry you didn't
see him... glad we talked
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I... Oh... I'm... alive hey x2
I... Oh... I'm... alive hey oh
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While... across a young man's...
She said I'm ready... for...
I can't... anything... this very day
'Cept the look... the look...
You know where now I can't see...
stare. I... I'm still alive hey...
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Repeat Chorus
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Break:
x4
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Bridgey-middle 8 thing:
Is... she said
...there is
...she said
...deserve to be
...question
And if so... if so,
who answers Who answers
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Repeat Chorus
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Solo:
xlots--see existing tab for eddie's solo.
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Then cue the Queen-like drums on why go
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There ya go- only 2 pages.
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