Nick Drake Tabs

Hello, welcome to nickdraketabs.co.uk!

This is a very simple site set up purely to hold all the Nick Drake tabs I’ve worked out over the years. These are the same tabs as having appeared for a long time on Mikael Ledin’s excellent The Nick Drake Files—but as Mikael no longer wishes to update that site, nickdraketabs.co.uk lets me keep the tabs up to date with additions or corrections that I might discover or which people might send me.

You can contact me at chrishealey[aatt]ndirect.co.uk, replacing [aatt] with @. Please write Nick Drake in the subject line or I may miss your mail amongst the waves of spam.

The tabs are of course provided for free—I hope you enjoy playing them as much as I do.

― Chris Healey

Revisions

  • Aug 07 - Tabs added for the “Far Leys” instrumental (appears on Family Tree as “Sketch 1”) and original guitar version of “Made to Love Magic”.
  • Sep 08 - Tabs added for “Bird Flew By” and “Leaving Me Behind”.
  • Jan 11 - “Hanging on a Star” now includes the Made to Love Magic version.
  • Mar 11 - “Way to Blue” now improved, working mainly from the piano version of Family Tree.
  • Sep 12 - “Rain” and “Blossom” added.
  • Nov 13 - Major update to “Hazey Jane I”.
  • Mar 14 - Updates to “Black Eyed Dog”.
  • Mar 15 - Minor updates to “Which Will”.
  • Jan 16 - Put the correct solo section in “Things Behind the Sun”.
  • Mar 16 - “Cello Song” made less rubbish.
  • Feb 18 - Added the fingerpicked demo version to the “Place To Be” tab.
  • Feb 19 - Improved version of “One Of These Things First” / Jun 19 tweaked “Pink Moon”

Tabs

* updated from the Nick Drake Files version

Five Leaves Left

Five Leaves Left album art
  1. Time Has Told Me*
  2. River Man*
  3. Three Hours
  4. Way to Blue*
  5. Day Is Done
  6. ’Cello Song*
  7. Thoughts of Mary Jane
  8. Man in a Shed
  9. Fruit Tree*
  10. Saturday Sun

Bryter Layter

Bryter Layter album art
  1. Introduction*
  2. Hazey Jane II
  3. At the Chime of a City Clock*
  4. One of These Things First*
  5. Hazey Jane I*
  6. Bryter Layter
  7. Fly*
  8. Poor Boy
  9. Northern Sky*
  10. Sunday*

Pink Moon

Pink Moon album art
  1. Pink Moon*
  2. Place to Be*
  3. Road*
  4. Which Will*
  5. Horn
  6. Things Behind the Sun*
  7. Know
  8. Parasite*
  9. Free Ride
  10. Harvest Breed*
  11. From the Morning*

Other

Family Tree album art