Safety in Numbers - Joan Osborne
Tablature by Jonathan Bourke

The most the guitar is doing in the song using upstrokes on the highest two notes on each chord. That's until you reach the E/G/Bm/G/E progression, where the whole chord is strummed.

          Bm
There is safety in numbers
      F#                         Bm
and people and things and in big wads

of money and
F#
great big platinum rings
    E           G        Bm      G
And no one will ever get near me again
         Bm
There is safety in numbers,
   F#         Bm
in numbers my friend
          
                                       
          Bm
There are people who watch you in your
F#
windows at night
         Bm
and they follow your movements in the
F#
cold fluorescent light
     E              G
They wait for their moment,
        Bm             G
they'll get you in the end
          Bm
There is safety in numbers
   F#         Bm
in numbers my friend


E               G  
I was just like you before
    Bm               G
You want somebody to love
E                 G
Since that day I learned the score
  Bm               F#
I know how to rise above


          Bm
There is shelter in power
     F#
and promises of pain and in
Bm
lovers and lawyers
    F#
and dogs pulling at the chain
    E           G        Bm      G
And no one will ever get near me again
          Bm
There is safety in numbers
   F#         Bm
in mumbers my friend

<9 Bar Instrumental>


You will find me well protected
when you come around today
So remember what
I told you and contunue on your way

      
      E           G
Cause no one will ever
    Bm      G
get near me again

          Bm                   F#
There is safety in numbers, in numbers
   Bm
my friend