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Before You Were Born by Toad The Wet Sprocket
Before You Were Born
It's the same basic chords the whole song.
Vary it by adding hammer-ons/pull-offs.
Listen to the album to get the strumming pattern.
[verse1]
D Dsus4 G Gadd2?
How can it happen that every time
D Dsus4 G Gadd2
You ask us this question the answer seems like a lie
D Dsus4 G Gadd2
You know what what we're saying you know what it means
Bm
And it's always sincere god knows
A G
But it never gets through to where you need
[chorus1]
D
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
G
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
D
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
G
You are not wanted here anymore
(repeat these patterns for the other verses and choruses and the 2nd solo)
[1st solo backing chords]
Em D Em D Em A D A G
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Dsus4 Gadd2 (this isn't the right name for it, I know)
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version 2
[verse1]
D Dsus4 G Gadd2?
How can it happen that every time
D Dsus4 G Gadd2
You ask us this question the answer seems like a lie
D Dsus4 G Gadd2
You know what what we're saying you know what it means
Bm
And it's always sincere god knows
A G
But it never gets through to where you need
[chorus1]
D
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
G
There's no place for you here, stay back where you belong
D
Before you were born someone kicked in the door
G
You are not wanted here anymore
(repeat these patterns for the other verses and choruses and the 2nd solo)
[1st solo backing chords]
Em D Em D Em A D A G
Solo
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|---------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--9--7--4--2--4--6--7--11--|--9--7--4--------4--7-----4--7--|
|--9--7--4--2--4--6--7--11--|--9--7--4--7--7--4--7--7--4--7--|
|---------------------------|-----------7--7--------7--------|
|---------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------15--14------------------14---------------------|
|--------------15------15--17------------------8--10--|
|--14--------------14--------------4--6--7--9--7--7---|
|----------------------------------4--6--7--9--0--0---|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
Dsus4 Gadd2 (this isn't the right name for it, I know)
------ ------
|||||| 1st fret |||||| 1st fret
------ ------
|||*|| ||||||
------ ------
||||** *|||**
------ ------
|||||| ||||||
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