• Song:

    Sweet Arms Of A Tune

  • Artist:

    Missy Higgins

  • Album:

    The Ol' Razzle Dazzle

Capo 3

[After the chorus she does a little finger picking. 
I'm not 100% on this part but it goes a little something like this -

|------------------------------------------------|
|---------------0----1(p)0------------------0----|
|-------------0--------------------------0-------|
|-----------0-------------------------0----------|
|--------2-------------------------2-------------|
|--3--3----------3-3---------3--3--------------3-|

I have indicated it with an (*)

She plays the C chord as X32003. Not sure what the true name is.]

Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1)             Em (022000@1)name="chord_320003@1">G C(OOoooooOOOOOooo) (x32010@1)       (OOoooooOOOOOooo)

Em (022000@1)                    
He told her when she played, 
         Am (x02210@1)             Emwings (022000@1)sprouted from her shoulder blades 
     G (320003@1)                            DAnd (xx0232@1)every bone inside her seemed to change.
    Em (022000@1)         
So on her fingers moved 
      Am (x02210@1)                  EmOver (022000@1)notes she hoped would soothe,
      G (320003@1)                          DHis (xx0232@1)jagged soul, caressing every groove.

C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)   
Oh and how she longed to say
             Em (022000@1)               D (xx0232@1)That she'd missed his troubled ways,
     C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)Oh and if she could she'd do it all again.
             C (x32010@1)                     Bm (x24432@1)Cause sometimes every word has been used,
           Em (022000@1)             DAnd (xx0232@1)theres nothing left to do
   C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)             *
But hold the one you can't have in the sweet arms of a tune.

Em (022000@1)                   Am (x02210@1)           EmA (022000@1)year ago today New York City seemed to fall away,
    G (320003@1)                              D (xx0232@1)         
To leave only the bed in which they laid.
       Em (022000@1)                                             
But an island is just that
        Am (x02210@1)                Em (022000@1)            
Oh and when the world came flooding back
      G (320003@1)                              D (xx0232@1)  
All pillars underneath them began to crack

C (x32010@1)                 Bm (x24432@1)           
Now he's sitting on her floor
               Em (022000@1)            D (xx0232@1)                
She's playing all the minor chords
     C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)              DWishing (xx0232@1)so damn hard he'd kiss her like before 
     C (x32010@1)                      BmSometimes (x24432@1)every word has been used,
             Em (022000@1)           DAnd (xx0232@1)theres nothing left to do
   Cadd9 (x32030@1)              G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)             *
But hold the one you can't have in the sweet arms of a tune.
 
    C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)               Em (022000@1)name="chord_320003@1">G C (x32010@1)Yeah hold the one you can't love in the sweet arms of a tune.

Em (022000@1)name="chord_320003@1">G C (x32010@1)          Em (022000@1)name="chord_320003@1">G C (x32010@1)        
(OOOOOooooo)        (OOOOOooooo)

C (x32010@1)                    GCause (320003@1)sometimes every inch of you is bruised,
             Em (022000@1)             D (xx0232@1) 
And theres nothing left to prove
       C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)             *
So just hold the one you can't have in the sweet arms of a tune.

C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)               *     
Yeah hold the one you can't love in the sweet arms of a tune.

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