Throwing Stones chords by Grateful Dead

Chords with lyrics

THROWING STONES
Performed by the Grateful Dead on the Album In the Dark
By: Weir/Barlow
This version chorded by: Abe Klagsbrun [email protected]
11/18/95

INTRO - A augmentedA RIFF
B minorBm     A augmentedA          E MajorE         A augmentedA  B minorBm   G+G    A augmentedA
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free,Dizzy with eternity
E minor 7Em7                    A augmentedA     E minor 7Em7
Painted with a skin of sky brush in some clouds and sea
B minorBm           A augmentedA
Call it home to you and me
B minorBm     A augmentedA       E MajorE      A augmentedA
A majorA peaceful place or so it looks from space.
B minorBm       G+G         A augmentedA
A majorA closer look reveals the human race
E minor 7Em7                A augmentedA   E minor 7Em7
Full of hope full of grace is the human face
B minorBm                 A augmentedA
But afraid we may lay our home to waste
      E MajorE         D MajorD   A augmentedA   E MajorE      D MajorD     A augmentedA
There's a fear down hear we can't forget. Hasn't got a name just yet
E MajorE        D MajorD   A augmentedA        E MajorE      D MajorD    A augmentedA
Always awake always around, singing' ashes ashes all fall down

B minorBm       A augmentedA          E MajorE     A augmentedA
Now watch the ball revolves as the nighttime falls
B minorBm       G+G         A augmentedA
And again the hunt begins, and again the blood wind calls
E minor 7Em7           A augmentedA        E minor 7Em7
By and by again, the morning sun will rise.
    B minorBm                 A augmentedA
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes
B minorBm        A augmentedA       E MajorE      A augmentedA
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
B minorBm      G+G     A augmentedA
Staking turf dividing up meat
E minor 7Em7       A augmentedA    E minor 7Em7  B minorBm        A augmentedA
Nightmare spook peace of heat, you and me, you and me
E MajorE             D MajorD    A augmentedA   E MajorE       D MajorD   A augmentedA
Flash switch blade in the ghetto night. Rudies looking for a fight
E MajorE       D MajorD     A augmentedA   E MajorE         D MajorD     A augmentedA
Ratcat alley roll them bones, need that cash to feed that jones
E MajorE           D MajorD     A augmentedA
And the politicians throwing stones
E MajorE          D MajorD    A augmentedA   E MajorE
Singing ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes ashes all fall down

C# minorC#m       A augmentedA        E MajorE
Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice.
B minorBm         A augmentedA        E MajorE       E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE
Anyway they fall guess who gets to pay the price?
E MajorE      A augmentedA        E MajorE       B minorBm          A augmentedA  G+G A augmentedA
Money green or proletarian grey, selling guns instead of food today

    E MajorE          D MajorD      A augmentedA
So the kids they dance and shake their bones

    E MajorE      D MajorD    A augmentedA
And the politicians throwing stones
     E MajorE     D MajorD    A augmentedA   E MajorE
Singing ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes Ashes all fall down.

B minorBm        A augmentedA       E MajorE     A augmentedA
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
B minorBm        G+G             A augmentedA
If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink
E minor 7Em7           A augmentedA        E minor 7Em7
History's page will be neatly carved in stone
B minorBm                  A augmentedA
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own.   A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA JAM

C# minorC#m       A augmentedA        E MajorE
If the game is lost, then we're all the same.
B minorBm        A augmentedA   E MajorE        A augmentedA
No one left to place or take the blame
E MajorE          A augmentedA       E MajorE
We will leave this place an empty stone
   F# minorF#m      B minorBm      A augmentedA
Or a shining ball of blue we can call our home
    E MajorE          D MajorD     A augmentedA
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
     E MajorE      D MajorD    A augmentedA
And the politicians throwing stones.
     E MajorE      D MajorD    A augmentedA   E MajorE
Singing ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes ashes all fall down

Shipping powders back and forth.
Singing black goes south and white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars.
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the latest fashions set the pace.
Lose your step fall out of grace
The radical he rant and rage.
Singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home.
Singing just leave well enough alone.
But his pants are down, his covers blown.
And the politicians throwing stones
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes ashes all fall down, Ashes ashes all fall down

B minorBm    A augmentedA            E MajorE        A augmentedA
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free.
B minorBm      G+G        A augmentedA
It's dizzying, the possibilities.  Ashes ashes all fall down ....