Biography:
Jars of Clay is a popular Christian alternative rock group formed while the band members attended Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois, United States in 1992. The group's sound has varied over the years as the band has experimented with pop, folk, rock, trip-hop, gospel, and hymnsong. Their self-titled album featured layered acoustic guitars over programmed trip-hop beats. The song "Flood" was the band's biggest crossover hit, and it hit #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as #12 on the Modern Rock chart.
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Other songs:
- Coffee
- Dead Man (carry Me)
- I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever
- Love Song For A Savior
- Oh My God
- Show You Love
- They'll Know We Are Christians
- Thou Lovely Source Of True Delight
- After The Fight
- Age Of Immature Mistakes
- All My Tears
- Amazing Grace
- Be Thou My Vision
- Benediction
- Boy On A String
- Boys Lesson One
- Can T Erase It
- Christmas For Cowboys
- Closer
- Collide
- Crazy Times
- Dead Man Carry Me
- Dig
- Fade To Grey
- Faith Enough
- Faith Like A Child
- Fall Asleep
- Famous Last Words
- Five Candles
- Flood
- Frail
- Ghost In The Moon
- God Will Lift Up Your Head
- Good Monsters
- He
- Headphones
- Hymn
- I Dont Want You To Forget
- I Need Thee Every Hour
- I Need You
- If I Stand
- Ill Fly Away
- Im Alright
- Inland
- Jealous Kind
- Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
- Jesus I Lift My Eyes
- Left Undone
- Lesser Things
- Let Us Love And Sing And Wonder
- Lift Me Up
- Light Gives Heat
- Like A Child
- Liquid
- Little Drummerboy
- Loneliness And Alcohol
- Lonely People
- Love Came Down
- Love Came Down At Christmas
- Love In Hard Times
- Love Me
- Love Song For A Saviour
- Mirrors And Smoke
- Much Afraid
- My Heavenly
- Needful Hands
- No One Loves Me Like You
- Nothing But The Blood
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- On Jordans Stormy Banks
- On Jordans Stormy Banks I Stand
- Only Alive
- Overjoyed
- Peace Is Here
- Portrait Of An Apology
- Reckless Forgiver
- River Constantine
- Rose Colored Stain Glass Window
- Sad Clown
- Save My Soul
- Scenic Route
- Shelter
- Sinking
- Sleepers
- Something Beautiful
- Sunny Days
- Take Me Higher
- Tea And Sympathy
- The Chair
- The Eleventh Hour
- The Stone
- There Is A River
- There Might Be A Light
- These Ordinary Days
- Theyll Know We Are Christians
- Two Hands
- Unforgetful You
- Valley Song
- Waiting For The World To Fall
- Water Under The Bridge
- We Will Follow
- Weighed Down
- Work
- Worlds Apart
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Tabbed by: OrgnlDave
This song is beautiful, but it's also kind of repetitive to play and sing.
It's basically a 2-3 chord song depending on how you play it, usually.
I started off with the Jars of Clay version for general rhythm, and spent a
whole bunch of time after that making it much more interesting to both play
and sing.
It gives a very gospel-y feel. For rhythm, I'd recommend starting out with
the Jars of Clay version (which only use G and C, sooooo repetitive on solo guitar) and
from there...
Since we're using very specific chord forms I'll tab them out here.
E A D G B E
G5 3 X 0 0 3 3
G7a 3 X 3 0 0 3
G7b 3 x 3 0 0 1
C/E 0 3 2 0 1 0
C7/E 0 3 2 3 1 0
G6 3 X 2 0 3 3
Em 0 2 2 0 0 X
G11 3 3 0 0 1 0
Gm11 3 3 0 3 1 0
G/B X 2 0 0 3 3
G/D X X 0 0 3 3
(CHORUS)
G5 G7a C/E C7/E G5 G6 G5
I'll fly away, oh glory, I 'll fly away
G5 Em G11 Gm11 G5
When I die, hallelujah by and by, oh I 'll fly away
**
The C7/E and Gm11 are very short, almost transitional chords. The G5/G6/G5
just comes in between to liven it up a little.
The verses are very similar to the first chorus line
**
(VERSE)
G/D G7a C/E C7/E G5
Some bright morning when this life is o'er, I 'll fly away
G/B G5 G7a C7 C7/E G5
To a land on God's celestial shore, oh I'll fly away
**
We continue on pretty much like this, with some variations discussed at the
end
**
When the shadows of this life have gone, oh I'll fly away
Like a bird from these prison walls, I’ll fly, oh I'll fly away
CHORUS
Oh how glad and happy when we meet, oh I'll fly away
No more cold, iron shackles on my feet, oh I'll fly away
CHORUS
Just a few more weary days and then, oh I'll fly away
To a land where joy will never end, oh I'll fly away
CHORUS x2
**
Variations
If you were looking, we didn't use G7b at all. That's because sometimes it's
nice to transition halfway through a G7a to a G7b when you're really kicking
it later in the song, or just play a G7b. It adds to the gospel-y "falling"
sound some, and opens up the strings in another way. Other variations are
available, depending on the tonal quality of your guitar: you may wish to
interchange G5, G/B, G/D, and both full open forms of G. This is roughly how
it plays well on my guitar's tonality.
The reason the C/E and C7/E are so important is that I usually do a bass
note hit just before a chord. Sometimes its good in the middle instead
though...
Anyway, I'll probably be uploading a video tutorial too so you can see how
awesome this version sounds. Taking a 2-chord song and arranging it to sound
nice is very rewarding.
This is marked 'novice' because one could technically play it, but really, the strumming
and especially later on when you let loose and the strings are singing, the fingers can
jammed around a little.
This song is beautiful, but it's also kind of repetitive to play and sing.
It's basically a 2-3 chord song depending on how you play it, usually.
I started off with the Jars of Clay version for general rhythm, and spent a
whole bunch of time after that making it much more interesting to both play
and sing.
It gives a very gospel-y feel. For rhythm, I'd recommend starting out with
the Jars of Clay version (which only use G and C, sooooo repetitive on solo guitar) and
from there...
Since we're using very specific chord forms I'll tab them out here.
E A D G B E
G5 3 X 0 0 3 3
G7a 3 X 3 0 0 3
G7b 3 x 3 0 0 1
C/E 0 3 2 0 1 0
C7/E 0 3 2 3 1 0
G6 3 X 2 0 3 3
Em 0 2 2 0 0 X
G11 3 3 0 0 1 0
Gm11 3 3 0 3 1 0
G/B X 2 0 0 3 3
G/D X X 0 0 3 3
(CHORUS)
G5 G7a C/E C7/E G5 G6 G5
I'll fly away, oh glory, I 'll fly away
G5 Em G11 Gm11 G5
When I die, hallelujah by and by, oh I 'll fly away
**
The C7/E and Gm11 are very short, almost transitional chords. The G5/G6/G5
just comes in between to liven it up a little.
The verses are very similar to the first chorus line
**
(VERSE)
G/D G7a C/E C7/E G5
Some bright morning when this life is o'er, I 'll fly away
G/B G5 G7a C7 C7/E G5
To a land on God's celestial shore, oh I'll fly away
**
We continue on pretty much like this, with some variations discussed at the
end
**
When the shadows of this life have gone, oh I'll fly away
Like a bird from these prison walls, I’ll fly, oh I'll fly away
CHORUS
Oh how glad and happy when we meet, oh I'll fly away
No more cold, iron shackles on my feet, oh I'll fly away
CHORUS
Just a few more weary days and then, oh I'll fly away
To a land where joy will never end, oh I'll fly away
CHORUS x2
**
Variations
If you were looking, we didn't use G7b at all. That's because sometimes it's
nice to transition halfway through a G7a to a G7b when you're really kicking
it later in the song, or just play a G7b. It adds to the gospel-y "falling"
sound some, and opens up the strings in another way. Other variations are
available, depending on the tonal quality of your guitar: you may wish to
interchange G5, G/B, G/D, and both full open forms of G. This is roughly how
it plays well on my guitar's tonality.
The reason the C/E and C7/E are so important is that I usually do a bass
note hit just before a chord. Sometimes its good in the middle instead
though...
Anyway, I'll probably be uploading a video tutorial too so you can see how
awesome this version sounds. Taking a 2-chord song and arranging it to sound
nice is very rewarding.
This is marked 'novice' because one could technically play it, but really, the strumming
and especially later on when you let loose and the strings are singing, the fingers can
jammed around a little.
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