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From: "Kean, John"
Subject: TAB: Little Hands - Duncan Sheik
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:31:34 +1300
Little Hands - Duncan Sheik
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>From "Duncan Sheik"
Transcribed and tabbed by John Kean.
Tuning: DADGAD
Capo: none
Timing: 4/4
INTRO:
4/4 , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
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A||-T-----0-0--0--0-----------|---------0---0-----------|
G||-A-----0-0--0--0-----------|-------0-----0-----------|
D||-B-----3-3--3--3---2-0-----|-----3-------3---2-0-----|
A||---------------------------|-------------------------|
D||---0---------------------0-|-----------------------0-|
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|------3-----3-3---2-0---2-|-2h3---3-2---0--------------||
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VERSES:
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1. Some sweet perversion on the telephone line
2. We stayed out late 'til morning came
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|--------------------5-----|------5-------------5-------|
|--------7-----7---8-------|----------------------------|
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I've been waiting for such a very long time
I said "I'll take you home if its all the same"
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For her to be free
Her indifference fills the room
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The evening was nice but there were too many people
Some weak seduction on the morning after
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|--------7-----7---8-------|----------------------------|
|--------5-----5---------5-|--4-----4-----4h5-----4---0-|
|------0-----0-------------|----------------------------|
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And all my thoughts so depraved and evil
How it slays me every time I touch her
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Oh lord what would she say
But she just wants to sleep
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She says
She says
CHORUS:
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1. I'm afraid it's not to be You're a
2. How long 'til you understand The
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sweet guy but you ain't for me
last thing that I need is another man
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I live my life in a different way You
Didn't you promise to give it a rest Right
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|------0-----------------0-|------------3-0h2-----3h5---3-|
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know those things you're thinking are a big mistake
now I need a lover like a hole, like a hole in the chest
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BRIDGE:
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Oh well, can't blame a guy for
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/sheik_duncan/little_hands_tab.html ]
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trying And I'm smiling even though I'm
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|-----------------|-4-----------------------|-4---------------|
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dying To know the love she says will never
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be
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|------3-----3-3---2-0---2-|-2h3---3-2---0--------------||
|--------------------------|---------------3---0-3--3h5-||
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VERSE 3: (piano accompaniment arranged for guitar)
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One last conversation at the crowded bar And
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even thought the music is louder by far
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|--3-----------------------|-H5-----------------------|
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I hear every word she says
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She says
CHORUS:
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Don't take it bad don't worry about it
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|------0-------0-----0---0-|------------3-0h2-----3h5---3-|
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You're a friend of mine and there's no way around it
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|--------2--2--2-----2-----|--------1-----------1------|
|------0-----------------0-|------0-----------------0--|
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|-0------------------------|--0------------------------|
Sometimes you there early sometimes you get there late
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|--------0-----------0-----|--2-----0---------------------|
|------0-----------------0-|------------3-0h2-----3h5---3-|
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|-0------------------------|------------------------------|
But even if you had a chance you never, never knew the
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|--------3--3--3---2-0-----|-----2/3-------3---2h0-----||
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|--0---------------------0-|-------------------------0-||
game
CODA: (fade out at end)
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||------2-----2-------------2-|--------0-----0---0h2-0-----|
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||--3-------------------------|--2-------------------------|
Little hands open smile I'm
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|--------3-----------3-----|--------3-----------3-----|
|------0-----0-----0-----0-|------0-----0-----0-----0-|
|----3-----3-----3-----3---|----3-----3-----3-----3---|
|--1-----------------------|--3-----------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
glad we got to talk for a while I
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feel O.K. yeah I'm feeling better
O.K. yeah it's
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|------0-----0-----0-----0-|------0-----0-----0-----0-*||
|----3-----3-----3-----3---|----3-----3-----3-----3---*||
|--1-----------------------|--3------------------------||
|--------------------------|---------------------------||
I'll let it go but I'll never say never It's
O.K. yeah... It's
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O.K. yeah yeah it's
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|--1-----------------------|--3-----------------------||
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O.K. yeah...
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John Kean
keanj@agresearch.cri.nz
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