Guns Are The Tongues chords by Richard Thompson

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Verse 1
Em 
 (E minor) Carrie ran a murderous crew
Dedicated through and through
And the chance to prove
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Em 
They  (B minor) nev er squandered  (E minor) 
And they liked to kill so clean
Save the innocent, kill the mean
But from time to time,

Verse 2
A bullet wandered
Em 
 (E minor) 
Carrie kept her souvenirs
Kept her scrapbook down the years
A 
 (A major) Of her brave boys,
Em 
how she cried  (E minor) to read it
And a few fell by the way
Or lost the stomach for the fray
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Em 
 (A major) So young blood was al (E minor) ways

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Interlude 1

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Verse 3
Em 
Carrie noticed him right away  (E minor) 
The way his whole body would sway
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G 
 (A major) Like a trawler boy  (G major) 
Em 
Finding his legs  (E minor) ashore
They said he was just nineteen
A head case but his record was clean
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G 
 (A major) Just the kind  (G major) 
Em 
 (E minor) They were looking for

Verse 4
Em 
 (E minor) 
Carrie watched him through
the crack
As they teased him behind his back
A 
Asus4 
They  (A major) called him Little Joe  (Asus4) 
A 
Em 
 (A major) 'Cos he scraped  (E minor) the ceiling
And when he was the worse for wear
She took him up the stair
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G 
 (A major) And soon he fell  (G major) 
Em 
For her  (E minor) brand of healing

Verse 5

She said, I'll lie like a rose on

your pillow

Let me twine the laurel in your hair

I want to smell my love on your fingers

Verse 6
C 
D 
 (C major) If you want to be mine,  (D major) Little Joe
C 
G 
 (C major) You must harden your mind,  (G major) 
D 
Little  (D major) Joe
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D 
C 
We've  (C major) got to fight  (D major) for what is ours  (C major) 
D 
Bring peace to the grave  (D major) of my brother
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D 
 (C major) Bring peace to the grave  (D major) of my father
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D 
 (C major) Dry the old eyes  (D major) of my mother
Asus4 
Little  (Asus4) Joe

Interlude 2

Verse 7
Em 
There's a roadblock down the way  (E minor) 
Thick with soldiers night and day
A 
 (A major) They'll hear the noise
Em 
All the way  (E minor) to Glengarry
If you show you've got the
stuff
That you're sworn and brave enough
A 
Asus4 
A 
Then  (A major) you'll stand  (Asus4) tall      (A major) 
Em 
In the eye (E minor) s   of your Carrie

Verse 8

And I will lie like a rose on your pillow

And I'll twine the laurel

in your hair

I want to smell revenge on your fingers

Verse 9
C 
D 
 (C major) Guns are the Tongues,  (D major) Little Joe
C 
Em 
D 
C 
 (C major) The only word (E minor) s   we know  (D major)  (C major) 
D 
C 
The only sound that'll  (D major) reach their  (C major) ears
D 
Bring peace to the grave  (D major) of my brother
C 
D 
 (C major) Bring peace to the grave  (D major) of my father
C 
D 
Asus4 
 (C major) Dry the old eyes  (D major) of my mother (Asus4) 
A 
Little Joe  (A major) 

Interlude 3

Verse 10
Em 
Now Little Joe would've jumped clear  (E minor) 
But for the awful fear
A 
Of scrap (A major) ing his knees there
Em 
 (E minor) on  the gravel
The car was a rolling bomb
Blew all to Kingdom Come
A 
 (A major) They marvelled how far
Em 
His  (E minor) boots had travelled

Verse 11

Another hero snatched from my pillow

I used to twine the laurel in his hair

I want to smell sacrifice on my fingers

Verse 12
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 (C major) Guns are the  (D major) Tongues, Little Joe
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D 
 (C major) The only word (D major) s we know
C 
D 
C 
 (C major) The only sound  (D major) that'll reach their ears  (C major) 
D 
Bring peace to the grave  (D major) of my brother
C 
D 
 (C major) Bring peace to the  (D major) grave of my father
C 
D 
Asus4 
A 
C 
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 (C major) Dry the  (D major)  (Asus4)  (A major) old  (C major)  (D major) 
C 
D 
C 
Em 
 (C major)  (D major)  (C major)  (E minor) 
D 
C 
D 
C 
D 
C 
 (D major)  (C major) eyes of  (D major)  (C major)  (D major)  (C major) 
D 
Asus4 
 (D major) my  (Asus4) mother
A 
Little  (A major) Joe

Outro 1
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