TAB BY: DON CZARSKI



                             SYMPATHY
                        MELISSA  ETHERIDGE

INTRO:  A5 A5 * D5 C5 A5 - 2x's

Note: When playing the A barre chord in the beginning
      of the INTRO alternate (A*-see below) by lifting
      your finger on and off the low E string. Then
      when going from the D barre chord hit the C barre
      chord once and then back to the A.

      - LISTEN FOR THE TIMING TO GET THE PATTERN DOWN-

   A5  A5 *   D5    C5   A5

E -5--5----5----3---5-- | 
B -5--5----7----5---5-- | 
G -6--6----7----5---6-- | 
D -7--7----7----5---7-- | 
A -7--7----5----3---7-- | 
E -5--0----5----3---5-- | 

CONTINUE PLAYING THE INTRO PATTERN
FOR THE VERSE UP UNTIL THE BREAK ...


VERSE:
There's a liar in your bed
And there's a shotgun to your head
You can't breathe but you can smoke
              N.C5
You can't cry
But you can joke about it

VERSE:
You can drink yourself to chills
You can hide your little pills
As your life slowly explodes
You can believe nobody knows about it


BREAK:
         C5
Do you think that you're the only one
E5                    D5
 Who's losing their minds
 C5
Keeping it together
   B5            A5        E5
Is  everyone's favorite pastime, well


CHORUS:
 A5                    D5
Everybody's had some really, really bad
       A5                     D5
Some this has got to be the end
         A5
I would really like to try for you
D5
Sit around and cry for you
 F5                   E5
Muster up some sympathy yeah
      D5                           A5 A5
Well that's too much to ask of me


VERSE: (play the INTRO pattern 2x's until BREAK)

You try so hard to be discreet
With all your secrets in the sheets
 As you solemnly refuse
The very spark that lights your fuse


BREAK:
         C5                            E5
Do you think that you're the only one
            D5
Who can be unkind
 C5
Tearing at each other's flesh
B5               A5        E5
 Is everyone's favorite pastime, well


CHORUS:
 A5                    D5
Everybody's had some really, really bad
       A5                     D5
Some this has got to be the end
         A5
I would really like to try for you
D5
Sit around and cry for you
 F5                   E5
Muster up some sympathy, yeah
      D5
Well that's too much to ask of me


INSTRUMENTAL: SOLO over the following chords
                    F5 C5 G5 D5     F5 
C5 G5 A5

BREAK 2:
 A5
Have some, have some sympathy now
F#5                               F5
Have some, have some sympathy now

Have some now


CHORUS:
 A5                    D5
Everybody's had some really, really bad
       A5                     D5
Some this has got to be the end
         A5
I would really like to try for you
D5
Sit around and cry for you
 F5
Muster up some sympathy
       E5
Well that's too much to ask of me


(SOLO OVER THE CHORDS)
      A5 D5   A5 D5


OUTRO:
A5         D5
 Sympathy, sympathy

F5 E5                             A5
  That's too much, too much to ask of me
D5         A5                  D5
 Sympathy, sympathy honey, that's too much to ask of me
A5       D5
Oh-oooooh, Sympathy,
F5 E5                         ( A5 )
  That's too much to ask of me