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: chris@northsouthband.com

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

| B  hammer-on

| p  pull-off

| ~  vibrato

| +  harmonic

| x  Mute note

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