Burden Of The Angel Beast tab - cockburn bruce

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 18:31:44 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CRD: "Burden of the Angel Beast" by Bruce Cockburn
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BURDEN OF THE ANGEL BEAST     Bruce Cockburn 1994, 
                              "Dart to the Heart"

Transcribed by Stephen Cody Coderre
There are no commercial trans. of this song. This trans. is my own
version. The solo runs are my invention loosely based on the riffs
in the song.

DEFs:  drop D tuning: 6th str. 1 tone down

G5: 550030
G6: 0x9780
D9/G: 020230
Asus4/7: 002233
Em6add3: 222033

CHART:

verse:
 D       G5      D       G5      D       G5     
|  //// |  //// |  //// |  //// |  //// |  //// :| (2x)

chorus:
 Em6add3  Asus4/7 A           D
|  //// |  //     // :| (2x) |  ////

solo: (my own) - see tab

 D     run        D9/G     D  run   G6       D  run   D9/G
|  //  //      |  // // |  // //  |  //// |  // //  | //// |

 Em6add3  run  A    run   D
|  //     // |  //  // |  //// | 


out jam:
Em6add3  Asus4/7 A
|  //// |  //     // :|


SOLO TABS:

common riffs:

  D:              G5:
  /  /  /   /      /  /  /    /
|-2--2--3_2-2_0--|------------------|
|-3--3--3--------|-3--3-----3---3---|
|-2--2--2--------|-------0_4--0_4---|

[top 3 strings - riff off chords above]





D:                D9/G:(1st end)    G6:(2nd end)
   / /  /  /      /  /  /  /
|     ---------   |----0-          |---------------
|     --------- : |----3-          |-2/8----8!--8--
|     --4_0---0   |----2-          |-3/7--------7--
|     ------4--   |------          |-------0----9--
|     --------- : |-2--2-          |---------------
|     --0-0-0-0   |-0--0-          |---------------              
     
     
   /   /   p p  p p    /   / //  / /     / / /   /   
|--2---2-------------|-----0---|-3-----|-0----------|-2--|
|--3---3-------------|-----3---|-3-----|-2---2/3/5!-|-3--|
|--2---2-------------|-----2---|-0-----|-2----------|-2--|
|----------3-3--2-0--|---------|-2--4/5|-2----------|-0--|
|--------------------|-2!--2---|-2-----|-0---0/2/4!-|-0--|
|--0-------0-0--0-0--|-----0---|-2--2/5|------------|-2--|


LYRICS:

From the lying mirror to the movement of stars
Everybody's looking for who they are
Those who know, don't have the words to tell
And the ones with the words, don't know too well

[chorus]
Could be famine, could be the feast
Could be the pusher, could be the priest
Always ourselves we love the least
That's the burden of the Angel Beast

Birds of paradise, birds of prey
Here tommorrow, gone today
Cross my forehead, cross my palm
Don't cross me, or I'll do you harm [to chorus]

[solo]

We go crying, we go laughing
Never understand, the time we were passing
Kill for money, die for love
Whatever was God thinking of [to chorus]

[out jam]

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Video Burden Of The Angel Beast

Burden Of The Angel/Beast
From the Album Dart To The Heart. I've used a slide show of images as a means putting my personal interpretation on this deep and thought provoking song