Precious Declaration

first riff):  E Eb (4x)
[G]Hi[F#]tched a ride to the peaceful side of town   [E]     [Eb]
[G]Th[F#]en proceeded where thieves were no longer fo[E]un[Eb]d
[G]Ca[F#]n't cras[C]h [B]now I've been waiting for this
[G]Wo[F#]n't cras[C]h [B]now I've found some encouragement

[G]Pr[F#]ecious Declaration Reads
Yours is yours and mine you leave al[C]on[B]e now
[G]Pr[F#]ecious Declaration says
I belive all hope is dead no l[C]on[B]ger

[Eb]

[G]Ne[F#]w meanings to the words I feed upon   [E]     [Eb]
[G]Wa[F#]ke within my veins elements of freedom[E]  [Eb]
[G]Ca[F#]n't brea[C]k [B]now I've been living for this
[G]Wo[F#]n't brea[C]k [B]now I'm cleansed with hopefulness

(Chorus)

[A]On[G#]ce I jumped through hoops of fire
[B]Hi[Bb]gh and far as you require
[A]I [G#]was blind but now I see
[B]Sa[Bb]lvation has discovered me

[E] [Eb]

[G] [F#]   [C] [B]   [G] [F#]   [C] [B]

2x)

[E] [Eb]

                                        Have fun!!!!
                                        Joel
PRECIOUS DECLARATION
by Collective Soul
>From the album: Disciplined Breakdown

To start off, if you want to play along with the CD, you have to
tune your guitar down half a step.  It's not a very difficult song
to play.  The hardest part is that awesome killer riff that starts
off the song and occurs at different places throughout.  Well here
it is, enjoy!

Drums enter then guitar one starts of with the following riff:

|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|---------------------X-X-|
|-------0-------------X-X-|
|---0h1---2-0---X-2-2-X-X-|
|-0-----------3-X-0-0-X-X-|

An alternate way of playing this if your distortion tends to get
muddy with the open strings ringing is like this:

|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|---------------------X-X-|
|---------------------X-X-|
|-------5-------X-2-2-X-X-|
|-0-5h6---7-5-3-X-0-0-X-X-|

Guitar one plays this riff twice on it's own and is then joined
by guitar 2 and played twice more.  After that the first verse
begins.

The verses are a combination of a muted G power chord and Riff 1

G                                          Riff 1 (twice)
Hitched a ride to the peaceful side of town
G                                          Riff 1 (twice)
Then proceeded..............no longer found

The prechourus has a couple of clean or slightly distorted guitars
plus the lead (which is not tabbed).  Open chords sound best here.
The C chord is actually a Cadd9, it sounds better with the Cadd9
you can get by with just a regular C

Prechourus:
[G]Can't crash [C]now I've been waiting for this
[G]Won't crash [C]now I found some encouragement

In the chourus, the guitars become distorted again.  More
power chords here

Chourus:
[G]Precious declaration reads yours
is mine you leave [C]alone now
[G]Precious declaration says I
believe all hope is dead [C]no longer    [Eb]

The only other part different from the above parts is the bridge
which is just distorted power chords

[A]Once I jumped through hoops of fire
[B]High and far as you required
[A]I was blind but now I see
Sal[B]vation has discovered me [D]

The rest of the song is just repeats of the above sections.
Listen to the song, they are to figure out.  I've been working
on the leads a little.  If any one has sugestions for them maybe
you could post them or add them to this file.