Matchbox 20 - Hand Me Down

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Hand Me Down - Matchbox Twenty
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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
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note

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