Redwing
(MESSÉ)

(Capo on first fret)

The key here is the main guitar riff – The songs is entirely formed around it. If you don’t fancy finger picking your way through it, you can just strum the verses as D and A7sus4 instead. 

For the riff, try and play along with the song to get the rhythm – The trick is in the hammering on and off. It’s basically a D-chord, using your index finger to hammer the lower strings for the first half, and then to make the trill in the second bit, with your third or fourth finger jumping across to the D string second-to-last, to play the fourth fret. Tricky, but it comes with practice.

A7sus4 = x02030

Riff (and intro):

  D             A7sus4    D             A7sus4
  (Hey...)                (floating...)
e|-----------------------|---------------------------|
B|------3----------------|------3-----------------3--|
G|----2---2---2----------|----2---2---2-2-0h2r0------|
D|--0-------0-------0h2--|--0-------0-----------4----|
A|--------------0h2------|---------------------------|
E|-----------------------|---------------------------|

D        A7sus4   D                     A7sus4
Hey, was that you floating past the tree-line?
Hey, was that a feather in your hand?
No I don’t mean to ask these questions
No I don’t mean to rush your heart
I swear I saw this accidentally
No I don’t mean to start

Hey, the rain falls straight into the sidewalk
Hey, the clouds hang heavy in the sky
But I don’t want to still believe in
The gravity of solid ground
The world below is not so big
That it can keep us down

       G               D
We are standing on the rooftops
       A             G
We are circling like sparrows
       Bm           D
We are tiny, we are trembling,
E
Scared of everything
        G                A   D (Riff)
But the heart is still a red wing

Fly above the houses and the schoolyards
And fly until you cannot feel the Earth
No I don’t mean that it’s so easy
And I don’t mean that it’s so small
But the world below is not so mean
That it can make us fall

We are standing on the rooftops
We are circling like sparrows
We are tiny, we are trembling,
Scared of everything
But the heart is still a red wing




Rabbit Chords - http://framesaver.tripod.com/rabbitchords
Transcribed by Geoff Hamilton - framesaver@eircom.net
Corrections welcome!