Lirik dan Chord Lagu Dire Wolf - Grateful Dead

Diciptakan oleh Jerry Garcia dan Robert Hunter, lagu ini muncul dalam album keempat band yang bertajuk Workingman’s Dead.

Album tersebut dirilis secara resmi pada 14 Juni 1970 melalui label Warner Records.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Dire Wolf” dari Grateful Dead:

[Intro]
E   D   A   E

[Verse 1]
E
In the timbers of Fennario
G                                      D
The wolves are running round
D
The winter was so hard and cold
D                                         E
Froze ten feet 'neath the ground

[Chorus]
                       D
Don't murder me
E             A                C#7      D
I beg of you, don't murder me
E           D                    A
Please don't murder me

[Verse 2]
    E
I sat down to my supper
G                                D
'twas a bottle of red whiskey
D
I said my prayers and went to bed
                  A            G#7 G7 F#7
That's the last they saw of me

[Chorus]
                       E
Don't murder me
D            A                C#7      D
I beg of you, don't murder me
E           D                    A
Please don't murder me

[Verse 3]
          F#m                E
When I awoke, the dire wolf
       A              G              D
Six hundred pounds of sin
D
Was grinning at my window
D                                     E
All I said was, "Come on in"

[Chorus]
                       D
Don't murder me
E             A                C#7      F#m
I beg of you, don't murder me
E          D                     A
Please don't murder me

[Verse 4]
        F#m                E
The wolf came in, I got my cards
       A              G        D
We sat down for a game
D
I cut my deck to the queen of spades
D                                        E
But the cards were all the same

[Chorus]
                       D
Don't murder me
E             A                C#7      F#m
I beg of you, don't murder me
E           D                    A
Please don't murder me

[Solo] (sama seperti Verse 4 and Chorus):
F#m E A G D D D E
D E A C#7 F#m E D A

[Verse 5]
E
In the backwash of Fennario
        G                           D
The black and bloody mire
D
The dire wolf collects his due
D                                               E
While the boys sing round the fire

[Chorus]
                       D
Don't murder me
E            A                C#7       D
I beg of you, don't murder me
E           D                    A
Please don't murder me

[Chorus]
                       E
Don't murder me
D            A               C#7       F#m
I beg of you, don't murder me
E           D                    A
Please don't murder me - No, no, no

[Chorus]
                        E
Don't murder me
D            A                C#7      F#m
I beg of you, don't murder me
E          D                     A
Please don't murder me

[Outro]
E          D                    A      A
Please don't murder me