This is the tab from the Dave Barnes website.
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Sticks and Stones - Dave Barnes
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Tabbed by: Chris Case
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.northsouthband.com
Tuning:
Gmaj9 Dsus4 C Csus2(pulloff) G/B G C9 Em D
e|--5------5----3-----3------------3---3---3---0--2--------------------------|
B|--3------3----1-----1------------3---3---3---0--3--------------------------|
G|--0------0----0-----0------------0---0---0---0--2--------------------------|
D|--4------4----2---2p0------------0---0---2---2--0--------------------------|
A|--5------5----3-----3------------2---2---3---2-----------------------------|
E|--3------------------------------3-------0---------------------------------|
Gmaj9 C Csus2 Gmaj9 C Csus2
You would have kept those words on your tongue
Gmaj9 C Csus2 Gmaj9 C Csus2
If you had known what they had done
Gmaj9 C Csus2 Gmaj9 C Csus2
While your fists stay right, right by your side
Gmaj9 C Csus2 Gmaj9 C
Your words they bruise me deep inside
G/B C Dsus4 G G/B C9
I’d rather have sticks and stones and broken bones
C Dsus4 Em
Than the words you say to me
G/B C Dsus4 G G/B C9
Cause I know that bruises heal and cuts will seal
C D
But your words beat the life from me
Gmaj9 C Csus2 Gmaj9 C Csus2
Sometimes your words are thick as lead
Gmaj9 C Csus2 Gmaj9 C Csus2
You swing them strong upside my head
Gmaj9 C Csus2 Gmaj9 C Csus2
What hasn’t killed has made me strong
Gmaj9 C Csus2 Gmaj9 C Csus2
So I’ll take my scars and move along
D G G/B C
Goodbye is the best way that I know
D G G/B C D G/B
To forgive and still be letting go (I'd rather have...)
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| H hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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