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Slave To The Traffic Light

Phish
Version1
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 ->  x4
 After a series of drums gradually building up ,
 ->  x4
 ->  ->  ->  x4
 ->  x5
 "Slave  to the traffic  light. Slave..."
 "Slave  to the traffic  light. Slave..."
 
 "Seen  the city, seen the zoo, traffic  light won't let me through."
 (Stacatto)  ->
 ->  ->  ->
 (Stacatto)  ->
 ->  x3
 (Stacatto)  ->  ->  x3
 (Stacatto)  ->
 Then comes some funky guitar stuff which I couldn't figure out
 followed by some piano stuff and more guitar. This eventually leads
 into the jam of the song.
 The chords underlying the jam are :
 ->  ->  ->
 At the end of the jam, Trey hits these chords really hard and lets
 the last A chord ring:
 ->  ->
 ->  ->
 ->  ->
 ->  ->  ->  ->  ->  ->

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Readable chord sheet for Slave To The Traffic Light by Phish

[A] -> [G] x4

After a series of drums gradually building up ,

[D]

[A] -> [G] x4

[A] -> [G] -> [D] -> [E] x4

[A] -> [G] x5

"Sl[A]ave to the [G]traffic light.  [A]Slave.[G].."

"Sl[A]ave to the [G]traffic light.  [A]Slave.[G].."

 [D]

"S[A]een the city, seen the zoo, t[G]raffic light won't let me thr[A]ough." [G]

(Stacatto) [E] -> [D]

[A] -> [G] -> [A] -> [G]

(Stacatto) [E] -> [D]

[E] -> [D] x3

(Stacatto) [F] -> [G] -> [A] x3
(Stacatto) [F] -> [G]

Then comes some funky guitar stuff which I couldn't figure out
followed by some piano stuff and more guitar.  This eventually leads
into the jam of the song.

The chords underlying the jam are :

[A] -> [G] -> [D] -> [E]

At the end of the jam, Trey hits these chords really hard and lets
the last A chord ring:

[F] -> [G] -> [A]
[F] -> [G] -> [A]
[F] -> [G] -> [A]
[F] -> [G] ->  [F] ->  [G] ->  [F] ->  [G] ->  [A]

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