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How Can I Stop

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From: "DON CZAR" <guitarzan7@hotmail.com>

Subject: r/rolling_stones/how_can_i_stop.crd

Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 10:14:20 PDT

SONG: HOW CAN I STOP

ARTIST: ROLLING STONES

ALBUM: BRIDGES TO BABYLON

TAB BY: DON CZARSKI

E-MAIL: guitarzan7@hotmail.com

HOW CAN I STOP

ROLLING STONES

INTRO: PLAY THIS -- 2x's NOTE: *-means slide to but don't

strike the note.

E ------------------------------------------------------------|
B ------------------------------------------------------------|
G ----------------10--12/14*/12*--10--10h12--12/14*--14-------|
D ---------10-12----------------------------------------------|
A --10/12*----------------------------------------------------|
E ------------------------------------------------------------|

CONTINUED:

E -------------------------------------------------------------|
B -------------------------------------------------------------|
G ----------------10--12/14*/12*--10--10h12--10-10-------------|
D ---------10-12-----------------------------------------------|
A --10/12*-----------------------------------------------------|
E -------------------------------------------------------------|

AND/OR: A D E A -- 4x's

VERSE:

A D

You offer me

E A

All your love and sympathy

A D

Sweet affection baby

E A

It's killing me

A D

Ah aha ah

E A

Ah aha ah

VERSE:

A D

Cause baby baby

E A

Can't you see

A D

How could I stop

E A

Once I start baby

CHORUS:

E A D E

(How could I stop) How could I stop once I start

E A D E

(How could I stop)

E

Yeah yeah

A D E A

How could I stop once I start

VERSE:

You look at me

But I don't see what you see

A reflection baby

Of what I want to be

I see your face

And I want to roll with it

Ah aha ah

Ah aha ah

CHORUS:

E A

But how could I stop

D E

Baby how could I stop

E A

How could I stop

D E

Stop it, stop it

BREAK:

E F G C

If I could, I'd take you all the way

C F G C

Baby, baby listen what I say

C F

Ah aha ah

G C

Ah aha ah

C F

There's even some things

G C

That I just would not pay

*BREAK 2:

C G

'Cause how could I stop

F G

If I start babe

C G F

(How could I stop) How could I stop if I start

G

Start with you

C G

(How could I stop)

F G

If I start baby

C G

(How could I stop) How could I stop

F G A

If I start with you babe

INSTRUMENTAL: A E -- 4x's

VERSE:

It's to easy to lay here at your feet

I couldn't take the heat

There's somewhere else

Maybe you should go

Baby maybe baby just a further down the road

CHORUS:

How I could I stop

If I start with you baby

How could I stop

How could I stop

Once I start

You tell me baby

Once I've started with you

How could I stop

Once I start

CHORUS: -- VERSE: -- hold A CHORD for a while - CHORUS to FADE

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