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3,000 Miles

Tracy Chapman
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 (x2):
Fadd11
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
B||-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|
G||--3----3-3---|--3----3-3---|--2----2-2---|--2----2-2---|
D||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
C
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
B||-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|
G||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
D||--3----3-3---|--3----3-3---|--2----2-2---|--2----2-2---|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
:
 Good girls  walk fast in groups of three
 Fast girls  walk slow on side streets
 Sometimes  the girls who walk alone
 Aren't found  for days or weeks
On  the busy boulevards
 Bad boys  call you names and cruise you hard
 Bullies  laugh and grin and beat
 Your soft  skin against the cold concrete
I'm  3,000 miles  away
I'm  3,000 miles away
I'm  3,000 miles  away
I'm  3,000 miles away
 Knock  you down, make you bleed
 Make  you cry and make you think
 I'll die  here soon if I don't leave
 If I  don't leave, if I don't leave
 This patch  of sky and native ground
 Take turns  to push and pull you down
 Forget trying  to live and be happy
I'll  take safe and terror free
 Chorus...
 Hit  the floor, shut off the lights,
 As the bullets fly
 Terror  rules the dark night,
 Dogs  hang from the trees
 This training  ground for punks and thieves,
 Home  of poor white retirees
 Who didn't  bail and couldn't sell
 When color  made the grass less green
 Chorus...
C
E||-5///6-------|-5-----------|-------------|-------------|
B||-------------|-------------|-5///6-------|-5-----------|
G||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
D||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
C
E||-5/6---------|-5///8-------|-------------|-------------|
B||-------------|-------------|-6-----------|-5-----------|
G||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
D||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
 Apples  are filled with razor blades
 But fools  and innocents believe
 That love  and faith and truth and beauty
 Can make  a garden of this human factory
 Chorus...
 Bad girls  run fast leave home alone
 No trace  or clue of where they've gone
 Sometimes  these girls are never found
 Never  found, never found
 Chorus... x 4
:
E||-6-----------|-5-----------|-------------|-------------|
B||-------------|-------------|-6-----------|-8-----------|
G||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
D||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

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Readable chord sheet for 3,000 Miles by Tracy Chapman

(x2):

   [Bbsus2]                      [Fadd11]
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
B||-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|
G||--3----3-3---|--3----3-3---|--2----2-2---|--2----2-2---|
D||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

   [F]                           [C]
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
B||-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|
G||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
D||--3----3-3---|--3----3-3---|--2----2-2---|--2----2-2---|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

[repeat intro and sing]:
Good g[Bbsus2]irls walk fast in groups of three
Fast g[Fadd11]irls walk slow on side streets
Somet[F]imes the girls who walk alone
Aren't f[C]ound for days or weeks

[Bbsus2]On the busy boulevards
Bad b[Fadd11]oys call you names and cruise you hard
B[F]ullies laugh and grin and beat
Your s[C]oft skin against the cold concrete

[Bbsus2]I'm 3,000 miles [Fadd11]       away
[F]I'm 3,000 miles aw[C]ay
[Bbsus2]I'm 3,000 miles [Fadd11]       away
[F]I'm 3,000 miles aw[C]ay

Kn[Bbsus2]ock you down, make you bleed
M[Fadd11]ake you cry and make you think
I'll d[F]ie here soon if I don't leave
If [C]I don't leave, if I don't leave

This [Bbsus2]patch of sky and native ground
Take t[Fadd11]urns to push and pull you down
Forget tr[F]ying to live and be happy
[C]I'll take safe and terror free

Chorus...

H[Bbsus2]it the floor, shut off the lights,
[Fadd11]   As the bullets fly
T[F]error rules the dark night,
D[C]ogs hang from the trees
This tr[Bbsus2]aining ground for punks and thieves,
H[Fadd11]ome of poor white retirees
Who d[F]idn't bail and couldn't sell
When c[C]olor made the grass less green

Chorus...

   [Bbsus2]        [Fadd11]        [F]             [C]
E||-5///6-------|-5-----------|-------------|-------------|
B||-------------|-------------|-5///6-------|-5-----------|
G||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
D||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

   [Bbsus2]        [Fadd11]        [F]             [C]
E||-5/6---------|-5///8-------|-------------|-------------|
B||-------------|-------------|-6-----------|-5-----------|
G||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
D||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

Appl[Bbsus2]es are filled with razor blades
But f[Fadd11]ools and innocents believe
That l[F]ove and faith and truth and beauty
Can m[C]ake a garden of this human factory

Chorus...

Bad g[Bbsus2]irls run fast leave home alone
No tr[Fadd11]ace or clue of where they've gone
Somet[F]imes these girls are never found
N[C]ever found, never found

Chorus... x 4

[repeat intro]

[repeat & fade]:
E||-6-----------|-5-----------|-------------|-------------|
B||-------------|-------------|-6-----------|-8-----------|
G||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
D||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E||-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

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