• Song:

    Heart Shaped Stone

  • Artist:

    Freddie Stevenson

Freddie Stevenson ~ Heart Shaped Stone

Tabbed by ~Coxy~.

From his first album, Body On The Line.

Deceptively simple song that I spent ages trying to figure out.
Once I'd finally deciphered the odd tuning it's in (a hallmark of 
a lot of Freddie's stuff) it fell together quite easily. Enjoy, it's a beautiful song.

Tuning: CGCGBD (variation of Open C)

Drop the low E down 2 tones to a C
Drop the A and D strings down a tone
Leave G and B strings as they are
Drop the high E down a tone

Capo at 5th to put it in the key of C

Chords used: No idea what their actual names are, I'm just going for 
the closest standard chord/root.

C    [x02010]
Am   [4x4010]
F    [x54500]
G    [x76700]
Am*  [x97900]
E    [x43400]

Intro & Verse:

d|--------------0------------------------------0-------------|
b|----------0h1---1--0--------------------0h1-----1--0-------|
G|-------0--------------0-----0--------0----------------2----|
C|----2--------------------2--------2------------------------|
G|-0-----------------------------0---------------------------|
C|-----------------------------------------------------------|

d|--------------0------------------------------0-------------|
b|----------0h1---1--0-------------0--------------------0----|
G|-0-----0---------------0-------5-----5-----5-------5-----0-|
C|----4---------------------2s4-------------------4----------|
G|----------------------------------------5------------------|
C|-4---------------------------------------------------------|

C
I am on my way
                      Am
In the softly falling rain
                        F
My head is full of dreams
And I am ready to start again

Through the nights and days
Down the twisting paths and vast highways
My imagination strives
To define what it craves

In a hilltop town
The sun or moon is shining down
On ancient cobbled streets
Through the dancing dust of the centuries

On a distant shore
I can hear the restless ocean roar
And it sounds like a reply
To something there is no question for

Chorus

d|----------------------------------------------------------|
b|------------0--------------0-------------0----------------|
G|---------7--------7-----7-------------9-----9-------------|
C|------6--------6-------------------7----------7-----------|
G|--5s7----------------7--------7s9-------------------------|
C|----------------------------------------------------------|

d|-------------------------------------0--------------------|
b|-----------0-------------------0--------------0-----------|
G|--------4-----4-------------5--------------5--------------|
C|-----3-----------3-------4--------------4-----------------|
G|--4-----------------4s5-----------5-----------------------|
C|----------------------------------------------------------|

d|----------------------------------------------|
b|-----------0----------------0-----------------|
G|--------5-----4----------7--------------------|
C|-----4----------------6--------6--------------|
G|--5--------------5s7--------------------------|
C|----------------------------------------------|

         G         Am*  E        F
And I am oh such a long way from home
                               G             C
With nothing in my pocket but a heart shaped stone

And in Malibu
I begin to grasp a sense of you
As me & David watch the sun
Dissolve like ink into the ocean

And we walked away
Through the fringes of the dying day
And I was looking for a word
But there is nothing left to say

Except I am oh such a long way from home
                                G           Am*   
With nothing in my pocket but a heart shaped stone

d|------------------0---------------------------------------------|
b|------------0--------------0-----------0----------------0-------|
G|---------9--------------7-----------5-----5----------7----------|
C|------7--------6-----------------4----------------6--------6----| ENDING
G|--7s9----------------7--------5--------------5s7--------------0-|
C|----------------------------------------------------------------|

     F                          G           C
With nothing in my pocket but a heart shaped stone

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