"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 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* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 wrote in to suggest this voicing for the F#7 = 444574. He tells us it sounds good....so try that! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************corrections/improvements welcome!!!!!**************