Dont Fear The Reaper - Blue Öyster Cult

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Song: (Don't fear) The Reaper
Artist: Blue Öyster Cult 
Composer: Donald Roeser
Album: Agents of fortune

Tabbed by DJ  19th Oct 2016

NOTE: Please IGNORE ANY CHORD BOXES the website might
automatically suggest and use the voicings shown below in text:
     = x022xx            = 022100
 *    = 3200xx          = x02010
 = 1300xx       *   = x-x-x-10-9-8 or xx311x
      = 133211       * = x-x-x-10-8-7 or xx300x
      = 355433           = 133111
     = 
N.C. = No chor

         = 
ds

Optionally, F, G, Am, Am7, E could be played as power chords:
 = 133xxx   = 355xxx   = 577xxx   = 022xxx

The Fm to G7/F are more effective as the higher voiced arpeggios
shown in the chord legend above, but I've also included a much
easier 1st inversion option (tablature of this version shown
right at the bottom of the main tab) or strum as the full chords 
with the option indicated without asterixes.

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[Intro]
          *
e |-----------
B |-----------
G |------2-0--
D |----2------
A |--0--------
E |----------3

           
--------|-----
--------|-----
-----0--|-----
---0----|-----
-2------|----3
--------|--1--

   *
--------------
--------------
---0-------0--
-0-------0----
-------2------
-----3--------

|[Repeat x4]
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[Verse 1]
    *     
All----- our t

   *  
imes   have co

    *      *
me,
    *     
Here---- but n

   *    
ow     they're

      *     *
 gone,
             
Seasons don't 

        
fear The Reape

r,
             
Nor do the win

             
d, the sun or 

    
the rain
             
(We can be lik

  
e they are!)

[Chorus]
           
Come on,  baby

              
,       (Don't

  *      
 fear The Reap


er!)
       *     
Baby, take my 

            
hand,   (Don't

  *      
 fear The Reap


er!)
          *  
We'll be able 

            
to fly, (Don't

  *      
 fear The Reap


er!)
        *    
Baby, I'm your

      *   
 man----------

     *
-----------

[Break]
    *      
La------ la - 

        
la, la!    La 

   *          *     *
- la, la - la,
           
La------ la - 

        
la, la!    La 

   *          *     *
- la, la - la!

        *  
|  /  /  /  / 

      *
 |  /  /  /  /

      
  |  /  /  /  

/  |

[Verse 2]
          *
||:  /  /  /  

       
/  |  /  /  / 

*
 /  :||[x4]

   *      
Va-----len - t

   *  
ine    is   do

    *     *
ne,
   *      
Here---, but n

   *    
ow     they're

     *     *
 gone,
            
   Rome - o an

            
d Juliet are t

             
o - gether in 

           
e - terni - ty

,

             
              

             
Forty thousand

             
 men and women

 
 every day,
(Rome - o and Juliet!)

             
              

             
     Forty tho

             
usand men and 

      
women every da

y,
(Like Rome - o and Juliet!)

            
          More

             
 than forty th

              
ousand coming 


every day
(Redefine happiness!)

             
(We can be lik

   
e they are!)

[Chorus]
           
Come on,  baby

              
,       (Don't

  *      
 fear The Reap


er!)
        *    
Baby, take my 

            
hand,   (Don't

  *      
 fear The Reap


er!)
          *  
We'll be able 

            
to fly, (Don't

  *      
 fear The Reap


er!)
       *     
Baby, I'm your

      *   
 man----------

     *
-----------

[Break]
    *      
La------ la - 

        
la, la!    La 

   *          *     *
- la, la - la,
    *      
La------ la - 

        
la, la!    La 

   *          *     *
- la, la - la!

        *  
|  /  /  /  / 

     * 
 |  /  /  /  /

     
  |  /  /  /  

/  |

[Bridge - arpe
     *      
e |----8-----8
B |---9----9--
G |-10---10---
D |-----------
A |-----------
E |-----------

ggios x2, then
              
-----|-8---8--
---9-|----9---
-10--|--10--10
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------

 repeats throu
        *
-8---|--7---7-
9----|-8---8--
--10-|---10--1
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------

gh lead solo]
--7-|----7---7
-8--|---8---8-
0---|-10--10--
----|---------
----|---------
----|---------

----7-|
--8---|
10----|
------|
------|
------|

[Verse 3]
          *
||:  /  /  /  

       
/  |  /  /  / 

 * 
 /  :|| [x4]

    *     
Love----- of t

  *   
wo    is   one

   *      *
,
    *      
Here-----, but

    *  
 now     they'

       *      *
re gone,
             
Came her last 

        
night of sadne

ss,
             
And it was cle

             
ar she couldn'

         
t go on,
             
Then the door 

             
was open, and 

            
the wind appea

      
red,
            
The candles bl

             
ew, and then d

            
isappeared,
            
The curtains f

              
lew, and then 

                       
he appeared!
                                 (Saying don't be a - fraid!)

[Chorus]
           
Come on, baby,

             
  (And she had

    
 no fear!)
           
    And she ra

              
n to him,  (Th

             
en they starte

     
d to fly!)
             
They looked ba

            
ckwards and sa

id goodbye,
              
(She had be - 

         
come like they

 are!)
             
She had taken 

            
his hand,  (Sh

             
e had be - com

       
e like they ar

e!)
           
Come on, baby!

             
  (Don't fear 

             
the reaper!)

           
|  /  /  /  / 

            
|  /  /  /  / 

           
|  /  /  /  / 

        
|  /  /  /  / 

 |

[Suggestion for ending]
           
|  /  /  /  / 

            
 |  /  /  /  /

    
  |  /  ||

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ALTERNATIVE SIMPLER Bridge Riff

[Repeats twice, then continues throughout the lead solo]

     *      
e |-----------
B |---1---1---
G |--1---1----
D |-3---3----3
A |-----------
E |-----------

              
--|-----------
--|-1---1---1-
1-|----3---3--
--|---3---3---
--|-----------
--|-----------

    *
--|-----------
--|--0---0----
--|-0---0----0
3-|----3---3--
--|-----------
--|-----------

--|-----------
0-|---0---0---
--|--0---0---0
--|-3---3---3-
--|-----------
--|-----------

--|
0-|
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