Chords for How to play Iko Iko (Jerry style)

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[G] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F] _ Today we're going [Bb] to play around a little bit with [Dm] Ico Ico, _ a nice little _ [C] _
traditional
ditty that [A] the Grateful Dead did every now and [Db] then.
_ _ [Ab] And it's [A] out of, they do it [Ab] out of D, and it's basically [A] two chords, D and A.
And it has a [Ab] little, [C] not quite a [Bb] reggae, [A] calypso, _ [Ab] uptempo _ type feel to it.
And you slide into the D, [D] _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ that's your A, [Ab] slide into the A.
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ Pretty
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Eb] simple.
_ _ _ _ One of the best things about playing [C] Ico [Ab] is it's a [A] tremendous way to learn how to play some [Ab] lead.
[B] And what you can do is you can [G] play a _ [A] _
basic _ [Ab] _ [B] _ melody or [G] riff out of D [A] and then [Dm] play the
same [G] pattern [A] out of A.
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] [C] The basic riff is something like [G] this. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] Your [D] D. _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ Here's your [Am] A.
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[E] Here's your A [A] chord. _ _ _ _ _
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One thing it really [Ab] lends itself to is [D] arpeggios.
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_ _ _ _ The way it was suggested [F] is this.
Play, work on your arpeggios and then you [Ab] can work a melody out of the chord.
So let's say you're doing the [C] _ _ [D] D. _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ One of the things that Jerry _ _ did, and it's something like [A] this, I think around one of
the 87 _ [C] shows, he did a riff [F] like this. _ _ _
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[E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ Now the [A] cool thing is if [E] you [F] learn even a little bit of one of his riffs, then you can
[C] do [B] the basic thing, the [Ab] noodle of it, and [B] _ work out your own style.
[Gb] Let's do the [C] riff I was just playing.
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_ _ [Bb] _ It's kind of off an [Gb] arpeggio.
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You're going into the third and I do it [C] off the A.
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_ _ [Db] So you're playing off the third. _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ What you're doing is you're holding this down [Dm] as kind of like your root note.
[Ab] That's your _ third on the D, which is on your _ 11th fret.
If you're [G] playing off the D chord, it's your [Ab] third note.
So you're going.
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So every other [F] note is your third.
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_ _ _ Do the same [Em] thing off your [C] A.
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[Ab] The other thing [A] that [Bb] it _ obviously [Ab] lends itself to is the old, the traditional walk down.
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