Riff 1 TAB:
E|---------------------------|
B|---------------------------|
G|---------------------------|
D|---------------------------|
A|-----1--3^5-5-3-3-1-1-0----|
E|--3----------------------3-|
^ means slide. 
This riff is played with lots of delay added.

This is the riff played by the guitar throughout the verse -
check record for exact rhythm.

Gm
             { 
G
   
F#
   
F
   
D
   
G
 }
I set out on Monday the night was cold and vast
              (Guit Riff 1)
and my brother slept
Gm
and though i left quite quietly
       { 
G
 
F#
 
F
 
D
 
F
 }           (guit Riff 1)
my father raged and raged and my mother wept
Gm
now, my life was like a river all sucked into the ground
         
G#
                 
Gm
and then the hammer came down, Lord the hammer came down

Repeat until:
Gm
Then I came upon a river and I laid my saddle down
         
G#
                  
Gm
and then the hammer came down, lord, the hammer came down
         
F
                 
Eb
it knocked me to the ground and I said "please please,
           
G#
               
Gm
take me back to my home town", Lord, the hammer came down