Grateful Dead — Reckoning: Chords & Links

Quick Facts

1981 live double album — the band's 6th live release (17th overall)
Fully acoustic; recorded live Sept–Oct 1980 at the Warfield (San Francisco) and Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
Companion release to Dead Set (1981), the electric album from the same shows
16 tracks, ~95 minutes; "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie" was cut from early CD pressings for space, later restored
Charted #43 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart; "Dire Wolf" reached #37 on Mainstream Rock

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.

Reckoning — Track Order, Verified Chords, Numbers & Links
#	Song	Key	Chords	Numbers	Bass	Sources
1	Dire Wolf	G	G, Bb, F, C, E7, Am	1, b3, b7, 4, VI7, 2m	Dedicated fingerstyle bass track — study it against the recording rather than deriving from the chord chart. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
2	The Race Is On	G	G, C, D, A	1, 4, 5, II	No Dead transcription exists; this is the George Jones original, the source arrangement the Dead covered. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
3	Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie	C	C, F, G, E, E7, D	1, 4, 5, III7, II	—	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
4	It Must Have Been the Roses	A	A, D, E, F#m	1, 4, 5, 6m	Dedicated fingerstyle bass track. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
5	Dark Hollow	A	A, D, A7, D7, E	1, 4, 1(7), 4(7), 5	Fingerstyle bass track alongside the acoustic guitar part. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
6	China Doll	Dm	Dm, Fmaj7, B°7, Bb, A7, Am, D, A, G	1m, b3maj7, VI°7, b6, 5(7), 5m, I*, V, IV	Dedicated fingerstyle bass track. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
7	Been All Around This World	C	C, C7, F, G	1, 1(7), 4, 5	—	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
8	Monkey and the Engineer	G	G, C, A7, D	1, 4, II7, 5	Dedicated fingerstyle bass track over a G–A7–D7–C frame. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
9	Jack-A-Roe	Am	Am, C, E7, F	1m, b3, 5(7), b6	Dedicated fingerstyle bass track. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
10	Deep Elem Blues	E	E, E7, A7, B	1, 1(7), 4(7), 5	Best-covered song here — billed as a complete bass tab, with a separate bass backing track for practice. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
11	Cassidy	E	E, A, Em, Am, F#m, B	1, 4, 1m†, 4m†, 2m, 5	Fingerstyle bass track; UG separately hosts a guitar transcription of the Reckoning intro to line up against. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
12	To Lay Me Down	G	G, Em, C, Bm, A, E, D, Am, F	1, 6m, 4, 3m, II, III, 5, 2m, b7	Dedicated fingerstyle bass track. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
13	Rosa Lee McFall	E	E, C#m, B, B7	1, 6m, 5, 5(7)	Dedicated fingerstyle bass track. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
14	On the Road Again	C	C, F, C7	1, 4, 1(7)	Transcription of the acoustic version, with a dedicated fingerstyle bass track. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
15	Bird Song (Reckoning / E-key)	E	E7, D, C, G, A, C#m, B, E	1(7), b7, b6, b3, 4, 6m, 5, 1	Transcribed in E — root motion on the E string with melodic movement above it; the transcriber marks the solo section as too fast to notate. Big Bass Tabs	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind
16	Ripple	G	Am, D, G, C, A7	2m, 5, 1, 4, II7	Studio-version transcription with a fingerstyle bass track; the separate 10/31/80 entry (closer to Reckoning) is guitar-only. Songsterr	AZLyrics Genius Dead.net Rukind

Reckoning — Track Order, Verified Chords, Numbers & Links

Song

Key

Chords

Numbers

Bass

Sources

Dire Wolf

G, Bb, F, C, E7, Am

1, b3, b7, 4, VI7, 2m

Dedicated fingerstyle bass track — study it against the recording rather than deriving from the chord chart.