SONG, LYRICS & TABS

Artist:	Richie Havens
Title:	Freedom

"Freedom"
(Richie Havens)


Thanks to Richie's input, we now have the correct chords to the Anthemic "Freedom".....
I've corrected the previous chords - here is the correct version (finally!):

email: Piper707@hotmail.com

For more information on Richie Havens playing style look here:

http://members.tripod.com/~Coolerking/guitar/richie.htm


Thanx a ton to Dan Haas <Kleronomos@aol.com> for additional information on
how to tune to Open D and the chord voicings in that tuning.
(scroll right down)



Bm Bm
(Freedom, Freedom ) x 8 times
Bm Bm
Sometimes I feel like I'm a Motherless child
Em Bm
Sometimes I feel like I'm a Motherless child
Bm
Sometimes I feel like I'm a Motherless child
F#m F#
a long long long....way......
F#7 Bm
way-ayye from my Home.... Yeah!

(continue the same way)


Freedom, Freedom) x 10 times
(Sometimes I feel like I'm almost gone) x 3 times
Yeah , a long long long way
way-ayye from my Home.... Yeah!

Bm
(Clap your hands) x 8 times
Bm
( Yeah, Yeah) x 10 times
Bm
(I got a telephone in my bosom and i can call him up from my heart) x 2times
Bm
When I need my brother, I say Brother! (brother) Brother! (brother)...
.....[Mother (mother) Mother (mother)] x 2 times
Yeah...Yeah...
Yeah...Yeah.........to fade *phew*

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D minor open tuning: D-A-D-F-A-D (D75345) i.e. tune Bass string (1st) to D,
then fret 1st string at fret 7 for the second string, fret 2nd string at 5 for
the 3rd, etc. Then check the three D strings with each other, and the two A
strings with each other. A critical interval is the two high strings. Get
that right and check the others against them.

to get other chords, just barre the appropriate fret:
Bm = 9th fret
Em = 2nd fret
F#m = 4th fret
F# = barre at 4th fret, plus fret the F string (third from the floor) at the
5th fret to make the chord major. i.e. 444544, Bass string to high.
F#7 = haven't figured out yet --- maybe 4X4554 ?

Christian Kuechler <ckuechle@stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote in to suggest this voicing for the
F#7 = 444574. He tells us it sounds good....so try that!


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