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I Dreamed I Had a Gun Live

Bobby Doran
Tab

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Song

Standard Tuning (capo 2nd fret)

This song is looped live...here are the basic layers

LAYERS 1-3 percussion layers

LAYER 4 background lead

C# A/C#m

E---------------------------------------------------------------|
B-5-4---5-4---5-4---5-4---5-4-----5-4---5-4---5-4---5-4---4-5-7-|
G-----6-----6-----6-----6-----6-------7-----7-----7-----7-------|
D---------------------------------------------------------------|
A---------------------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------|

E B7

E-------------------------------------------------------------|
B-9-7---9-7---9-7---9-7---9-7-----5-4---5-4---5-4---5-4---5/7-|
G-----9-----9-----9-----9-----9-------7-----7-----7-----7-----|
D-------------------------------------------------------------|
A-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------|

Layer 5 (bass notes)

Layer 6 Chords (looped or just played lightly)

C#m A/C#m E B7

E-0------0------0--------|
B-5------5------5--------|
G-6------6------4------8-|
D-6------6------6------7-|
A-4------0------7------x-|
E--------5------0------7-|

LYRICS

If I could buy a gun

I'm gonna start a war

Gonna pull the trigger, watch them fall

If I could have a knife

I'm bound to take a life

Bound to take this out on anyone

If I could dig a hole

Then I would climb inside

Wait until the rain would wash me out

If I could have the wheel

The pedal to the floor

Send the tires screaming off the road we fall

CHORUS: Da da da

Take me away from all this pain inside, Inside

If I could have a lighter

I'd like to start a fire

Dancing as the mountains crumble down

So give me a grenade

I'll blow it all away

Promise that you won't feel a thing at all

CHORUS: Da da da

Take me away from all this pain inside

Picking up the gun, staring up the war

No one's gonna laugh at me no more

BRIDGE

You can't run, you can't hide, you won't catch me

No, you won't catch me alive

Look, it's me laughing now

Tell me who will be laughing while you cry out

CHORUS: Not a thing in the world that matters...

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