Minstrel From Gault chords by Richie Havens

"Minstrel From Gault"
              (Richie Havens)


Album: Resume (The Best of Richie Havens)

Transcribed by: me!

Email: Piper707@hotmail.com or/ above address.


Note: I've transcribed the song using standard tuning.
   But Richie uses open D.

For more info on Richie's tuning and playing style look here-
http://members.tripod.com/~Coolerking/guitar/richie.htm

Got the lyrics by listening to the cd....there are a couple of parts which
I couldn't figure out. If anyone has the correct lyrics, please post.


Intro: D-C-Bb-G-F-E-Eb-D
        ^2nd guitar 'fill' comes in and continues....
    D-C-Bb-G-F-E-Eb-D

D       C
Minstrel came down ...
 Bb
with scars of ...
G    A     Bm
some of them ...
G    A     Bm
some of them ...
G    A     Bm
some of them ...
 Bb     C    D
yet some ...


G    A    Bm
It was told ..
G    A    Bm
It was told ...
G    A  Bm
It was told so ...
Bb    C    D
may not be told ...

(2nd guitar fill over intro chords - once)

D       C
Soldier came ...
 Bb
with silence in his...
G   A       Bm
tore down ...
G   A      Bm
when fire ..
G   A       Bm
tore down many ...,
    G      A        Bm
when the previous staff...
Bb              G           Bb C     D
knowing that through sins...earth bell, ...


Man came down from Cyanide....

(I give up here....or else everything is going to start looking like
gibberish! ;O)

At the very end of the songs where RH goes into the super fast strum, its
the same intro chords with 2nd guitar filling in.

  **************corrections/improvements welcome!!!!!**************