------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hand Me Down - Matchbox Twenty ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Tom Sprankling Email: Sprankling2001@yahoo.com Tuning: Standard tuning with a capo on the 1st fret. Intro: C, F a few times (listen to the track for the timing. Verse 1: C Someday they'll find our small town world, On a big town avenue, F Gonna make you like the way they talk, When they're talking to you, C Gonna make you brake out of your shell, Cuz they tell you to, F Gonna make you like the way they lie, Better than the truth, Am They'll tell you everything, You wanted someone else to say, F They're gonna brake your heart. Chorus: C From What I've seen, G Dm You're just one more hand me down, F But no one's tried to give you, C What you need, G Am Lay all your troubles down, F I am with you now. Verse 2: C Somebody oughta take you in, Try to make you love again, F Try to make you like the way they feel, When they're under you skin. C Never once to you think that they would lie, When they're holding you, F You wonder why they havn't called, When they said they'd call you, Am You start to wonder, If you're ever gonna make it by, F You'll start to think, You where born blind. Chorus Bridge: Am I'm here for the hard times, E The straight to your heart times, C When living ain't easy D You can stand up against me, F And maybe rely on me and G Cry on my, yeah..... Solo: Play the intro chords C and F Verse: C Someday the'll open up your world, F Shake it down to the very core, C Do their best to change you, F They still can't erase you. Chorus Outro solo: C , F Well another amazing song by Rob Thomas that is incredibly simple - Long live Rob Thomas!!!! Chords: e|--1---0---3---1---0---0---0---| B|--1---1---3---3---1---0---3---| G|--2---0---0---2---2---1---2---| D|--3---2---0---0---2---2---0---| A|--3---3---2-------0---2-------| E|--1-------3-----------0-------| | / slide up | \ slide down | B hammer-on | p pull-off | ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note ===============================================================================