Grateful Dead — Built to Last: Chords & Links

Quick Facts

The band's thirteenth and final studio album, released October 31, 1989 on Arista
Recorded February–October 1989 at Club Front and Skywalker Ranch (San Rafael) and Studio X (Petaluma); produced by John Cutler and Jerry Garcia
Peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold in January 1990; the single 'Foolish Heart' reached #8 on Mainstream Rock
Features more Brent Mydland songs than any other Dead album — four, all co-written with John Perry Barlow — and was the last released in his lifetime; he died a year later
The LP dropped 'We Can Run' entirely; it is a CD-only track

Chords verified against Rukind.com and Ultimate Guitar tab archives — not generated from memory. Nashville numbers included; capital numerals (II, III7, VI7) mark a chord borrowed from outside the home key, usually a secondary dominant. Lyrics links follow each site's standard URL pattern — if a link 404s, search the site directly by title.

Rukind was unreachable while this page was built (the site blocks automated readers and the Internet Archive was offline), so every chart here comes from Ultimate Guitar instead. All the Songsterr bass tabs for this album are AI-generated — useful as a map, but verify by ear.

Built to Last — Track Order, Verified Chords, Numbers & Links
#	Song	Key	Chords	Numbers	Bass	Sources
1	Foolish Heart	A	A, D, Amaj7, Bm, F#m, E, Gmaj7, Bm7/A, Bsus4, B, G#m, C#m7b5, F#7sus4, F#7, D/E	1, 4, 1maj7, 2m, 6m, 5, b7maj7, 2m/1, II, II, 7m, 3ø, VI7, VI7, 4/5	Fingerstyle bass track rated 2/5 — AI-generated, so treat it as a starting point. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Ult. Guitar
2	Just a Little Light	Am	Am, Em, Dm, F, C, G, D, E	1m, 5m, 4m, b6, b3, b7, IV, V	Fingerstyle bass track alongside two guitars, drums and a vocal line — AI-generated. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Ult. Guitar
3	Built to Last	C	G, G#, A, F, C, Am, Dm, Em, Bb	5, b6, VI, 4, 1, 6m, 2m, 3m, b7	Fingerstyle bass under an overdriven guitar and acoustic steel, rated 2/5 — AI-generated. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Ult. Guitar
4	Blow Away	Bb	Fsus4, F, Eb, Bb, Ab, Bbsus4, Cm, Dm, Gm	5, 5, 4, 1, b7, 1, 2m, 3m, 6m	Fingerstyle bass track — AI-generated. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Ult. Guitar
5	Victim or the Crime	B	B5, Bsus2, Bm, G/B, E7, B, Esus4, E5, E6, C, Csus2, A9, A/G#, A, Asus2, Am, B/A, F/A, D, C#m, F#m	1, 1, 1m, b6/1, 4(7), 1, 4, 4, 4, bII, bII, b7, b7/6, b7, b7, b7m, 1/b7, #IV/b7, b3, 2m, 5m	Fingerstyle bass rated 2/5, the album's second-most-viewed bass track — AI-generated. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Ult. Guitar
6	We Can Run (CD-only track)	A	A, E, F#m, D, Bm, C#m	1, 5, 6m, 4, 2m, 3m	Fingerstyle bass track with no recorded views — AI-generated. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Ult. Guitar
7	Standing on the Moon	G	G, C, D, Am, Bm, F, F#, B	1, 4, 5, 2m, 3m, b7, VII, III	Fingerstyle bass rated 2/5 and the most-viewed bass tab on the album — AI-generated. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Ult. Guitar
8	Picasso Moon	F#m	C#7, B, F#m, A, D, F#m/E, E	V7, IV, 1m, b3, b6, 1m/b7, b7	Fingerstyle bass track — AI-generated; a second AI entry transcribes the 10/16/1989 live version. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius
9	I Will Take You Home	B	B, F#, E, G#m, F#sus4	1, 5, 4, 6m, 5	—	AZLyrics Genius Ult. Guitar

Built to Last — Track Order, Verified Chords, Numbers & Links

Song

Key

Chords

Numbers

Bass

Sources

Foolish Heart

A, D, Amaj7, Bm, F#m, E, Gmaj7, Bm7/A, Bsus4, B, G#m, C#m7b5, F#7sus4, F#7, D/E

1, 4, 1maj7, 2m, 6m, 5, b7maj7, 2m/1, II, II, 7m, 3ø, VI7, VI7, 4/5

Fingerstyle bass track rated 2/5 — AI-generated, so treat it as a starting point.

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