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Best Medicine - The Stray Birds
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Tabbed by: Rillia
E-mail: [email protected]
Tuning: standard, capo 2
Intro Bm F#m G
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B|-------3------|-------------------|-------------------|----------------------|
G|---------4----|--------2----------|---------0---------|-------0--------0-----|
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A|--2-----------|-----4------4------|------2------2-----|----2--------2--------|
E|--------------|--2----------------|--2/3--------------|--3--------2----------|
Em G
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Verse 1 Bm F#m G
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nothin' my friend is harder to leave than the
Em G
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sound of a town with am-bition up its sleeve
Bm F#m G
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but this is my main street my red neon sign and I'm
Em G
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just another record shop hangin' on the vine
Verse 2
Bm F#m G
I walk like I've been kneelin' on these Rolling Stones
Em G A
and the doctor tells me he can hear the Beatles in my bones
Bm F#m G
You never know the gold you can find up there
Em G A
'til you put the needle down and do some digging in the air
Chorus
D G D G D
Well well well, all I see is all I tell
A G D
I never met a stranger to the bottom of the well
G D G D G D
If the body is a temple, the soul is a bell
A G D
and that's why music is the best medicine I sell
Bridge
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B|-------0--2--|---3-2-0------------|---2-0-----------|--------3---------------|
G|-----2-------|----------2---------|-------2----2----|---2/4-----4\2---2------|
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A|-------------|--------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
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G|---2/4---4\2--------|--------------------|---2/4---4---4--2-|--2-2-2--2-2-2-2~~~---|
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A|--------------------|--------------------|------------------|----------------------|
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Chorus
D G D G D
Well well well, all I see is all I tell
A G D
I never met a stranger to the bottom of the well
G D G D G D
If the body is a temple, the soul is a bell
A G D G D
and that's why music is the best medicine I sell, well well
G D
all I see is all I tell
A G D
I never met a stranger to the bottom of the well
G D G D G D
If the body is a temple, the soul is a bell
A G D
and that's why music is the best medicine I sell
Verse 3
Bm F#m G
Now I’m slowing down, but time just flies
Em G A
And the crows have come to land on the corners of my eyes
Bm F#m G
But I have seen beauty that has no name
Em G A
Like where the moon meets the river and the river meets the rain
Outro
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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