Pearls On A String

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"Pearls on a String" (Ryan Adams)
From "Easy Tiger" (2007)
sounds best in Nashville Tuning: string 6-string guitar with octave
strings for a 12-string, and tune to drop D.
[Intro]:
D G A D
[verse]:
D G D
Blue eyes for miles, pretty as a peach.
D
Glorious kind and always on time,
G D
Never far out of reach.
A Asus4
Tomorrow's on its way,
G D
And there's always new songs to sing.
:
D
Glorious kind and always on time,
G A D
Pearls on a string.
[verse]:
D G D
Soft, precious and easy,under the sea.
D
If you dive down far enough to the bottom,
D G D
Look around and you will see.
A Asus4
Tomorrow's on its way,
G D
And there's always new songs to sing.
:
D
Glorious kind and always on time,
G A D
Pearls on a string.
D
Glorious kind and always on time,
G A D
Pearls on a string.
[mandolin solo]:
D G D D G D
A Asus4 G D D G A D
[verse]:
D G D
The sun shinin' down,the children laugh and play,
D
Glorious, kind, always on time,
G D
out there in the day.
A Asus4
Tomorrow's on its way,
G D
And there's always new songs to sing.
[Chorus]:
D
Glorious kind and always on time,
G A D
Pearls on a string.
D
Glorious kind and always on time,
G A D
Pearls on a string.
D
Glorious kind and always on time,
G A D
Pearls on a string...
[one strum each]:
D
Glorious kind and always on time,
G A D
Pearls on a string.

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"Pearls on a String" (Ryan Adams)
 From "Easy Tiger" (2007)
 sounds best in Nashville Tuning: string 6-string guitar with octave
 strings for a 12-string, and tune to drop D.
[Intro]:
D  G A D
[verse]:
:
[verse]:
:
[mandolin solo]:
 D  G D  D G D
 A Asus4 G D  D G A D
[verse]:
[Chorus]:
[one strum each]:

Pearls On A String Chords by Ryan Adams

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