Stop Playing Guitar

The Promise Ring

Stop Playing Guitar

Wood/Water

2002

Submitted by: [email protected]



Key: A



Tuning: Standard EADGBe



Chords used:

A -   x02220

F#m - 244222

E -   022100

D -   xx0232





Intro: A-F#m-E-D-A-F#m-E-D(hold)





Verse 1:

A               F#m

  So if I had a dime for

           E

Every time I should've

                   D

Stopped playing guitar

And put my nose in a book

A

  Well then my head 

             F#m

would be healthy

                          E

And my guitar would be dusty

                         D

And that just might save me

From a bunch of bad songs

A                    F#m

  So maybe I'm too polite

                 E

Just like good Moses

                      D(Hold)

But just like good manners

We've had enough of them





Chorus 1:

A

Yeah yeah oh

F#m          E

yeah yeah oh yeah

D

  And now we're moving

              A

a little bit slow

        F#m

Yeah oh yeah

        E

yeah oh yeah

D(Hold)

Yeah yeah yeah

               A   F#m E D(hold)

yeah yeah yeah yeah





Verse 2:

A                       F#m

   Another round for my friends

                     E

I'll get paid back later

                      D

When evening turns midnight

I'll be just getting warm

A

  I know you're hot 

             F#m

and you're bothered

                         E

Now your skin's going crazy

                    D

It's one hundred degrees

And you've got a sweater on

A

  So I'd like to come off

F#m                   E

   The side of the kitchen

                       D(hold)

So when this party's ending

I'll be taking your number home





Chorus 2:

A

Yeah yeah oh

F#m          E

yeah yeah oh yeah

D

  And now we're moving

              A

a little bit slow

        F#m

Yeah oh yeah

        E(hold)

yeah oh yeah

D(Hold)

Yeah yeah yeah

               A   F#m E D A-F#m-E-D- <-- Guitar Solo

yeah yeah yeah yeah





Chorus 3:

A

Yeah yeah oh

F#m          E

yeah yeah oh yeah

D

  And now we're moving

              A

a little bit slow

        F#m

Yeah oh yeah

        E

yeah oh yeah

D(Hold)

Yeah yeah yeah

               A   F#m E D A F#m E D

yeah yeah yeah yeah



A F#m E D A F#m E D(hold)



Silence: A-F#m-E-D(hold)





Sing In Backup of Chorus 3:



I like books better than

Movies and present tense

And I can keep up with them

Stop playing guitar

Stop playing guitar

Stop playing guitar

Stop playing guitar

Stop playing guitar

Stop playing guitar

Stop playing guitar

Stop playing guitar