Hand Me Down Chords

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			     Hand Me Down - Matchbox Twenty
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Tabbed by: Tom Sprankling 
Email: Sprankling2001@yahoo.com

Tuning: Standard tuning with a capo on the 1st fret.



Intro:   C, F  a few times (listen to the track for the timing. 



Verse 1:

C
Someday they'll find our small town world, 

On a big town avenue, 

F
Gonna make you like the way they talk, 

When they're talking to you,

C
Gonna make you brake out of your shell, 

Cuz they tell you to, 

F
Gonna make you like the way they lie, 

Better than the truth, 

Am 
They'll tell you everything, 

You wanted someone else to say, 

F
They're gonna brake your heart.  


Chorus: 

               C
From What I've seen, 
            G                 Dm
You're just one more hand me down, 
    F                       
But no one's tried to give you, 
          C
What you need, 
      G                Am
Lay all your troubles down, 
      F
I am with you now.


Verse 2:

C
Somebody oughta take you in, 

Try to make you love again, 

F
Try to make you like the way they feel, 

When they're under you skin.

C
Never once to you think that they would lie, 

When they're holding you, 

F
You wonder why they havn't called, 

When they said they'd call you, 

Am
You start to wonder, 

If you're ever gonna make it by, 

F
You'll start to think, 

You where born blind.


Chorus


Bridge:

                       Am
I'm here for the hard times, 

                      E
The straight to your heart times, 

                   C
When living ain't easy

                         D
You can stand up against me, 

          F
And maybe rely on me and 

G
Cry on my, yeah.....



Solo:

Play the intro chords C and F


Verse:

     C
Someday the'll open up your world, 

     F
Shake it down to the very core, 
     
     C 
Do their best to change you, 

     F
They still can't erase you.


Chorus


Outro solo: C , F

 Well another amazing song by Rob Thomas that is incredibly simple
  - Long live Rob Thomas!!!!



Chords:


e|--1---0---3---1---0---0---0---|
B|--1---1---3---3---1---0---3---|
G|--2---0---0---2---2---1---2---|
D|--3---2---0---0---2---2---0---|
A|--3---3---2-------0---2-------|
E|--1-------3-----------0-------|



| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note

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