Throwing Stones chords by 
Grateful Dead 
Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Picture a bright blue ball just
Verse 1
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spinning,
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spin ning free
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Dizzy with eternity
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Paint it with a skin of sky,
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brush in some clouds and sea
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Call it home for you and me
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A peaceful place,
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or so it looks from space
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A closer look reveals the human race
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Full of hope, full of grace,
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is the hu man face
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But afraid we may lay our
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home to waste
Verse 2
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There's a fear down here
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we can't for get
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Hasn't got a name just yet
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Always awake, always around
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Verse 3
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Now watch as the ball revolves
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and the night- time falls
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fall s
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And again the hunt begins and
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again the blood wind calls
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By and by, again,
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the morning sun will rise
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But the darkness never goes
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from some men's eyes
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(Well I know)
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It strolls the side walk and it
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roll s the street s
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Staking turf, dividing up meat
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Nightmare spook, piece of heat
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It's you and me, you and me
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Click flash blade in ghetto
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night
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Rudy's looking for a fight
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Rat cat alley, roll them bones
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Need that cash to feed that Jones
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And the politicians throwing stone s
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Verse 5
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Commissars and
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pinstripe bosses roll the dice
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Any way they fall,
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guess who gets to pay the price?
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Money green, or proletarian gray
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Selling guns instead of food today
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So the kids they dance
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and shake their bones
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And the politi cians throwing stones
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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Heartless powers try to tell
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us what to think
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If the spirit's sleep ing
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then the flesh is ink
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History's page will be neatly
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carved in stone
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The fu ture's here,
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we are it, we are on our own
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On our own, on our own, we are on our own
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
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If the game is lost, then we're all the same
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No one left to place or take the blame
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We will leave this place an empty stone
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Or that shin ing ball
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of blue we call our home
Verse 8
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So the kids, they dance,
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they shake their bones
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And the politicians throwing stone s
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Verse 9
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south
and white comes north
And the whole world full
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of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the current fashions
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set the pace
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Lose your step, fall out of grace
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The radical, he rant and rage
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Singing someone got to turn the page
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And the rich man in his
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summer home
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Singing just leave well enough alone
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But his pants are down,
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his cover's blown
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And the politicians throwing stones
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So the kids, they dance,
they shake their bones
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'Cause it's all too clear
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we're on our own
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Picture a bright blue ball just spin
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ning,
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spinning free
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It's dizzying, the possibilities
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Verse 11
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
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