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Intro:
F# minorF#m 
A augmentedA A augmentedA 
E minorEm
E MajorE|-----------------3--3--3--5--3--------------0--------------5--5--5--3--2-----------------0--|
BB|--------------3--------------------------2--------------2-----------------------------0-----|
G+G|-----------3--------------------------2--------------2-----------------------------0--------|
D MajorD|--------4--------------------------2--------------2-----------------------------2-----------|
A augmentedA|-----4--------------------------0--------------0-----------------------------2--------------|
E MajorE|--2-----------------------------------------------------------------------0-----------------|
The second part of the intro is a bit different. It gets all synth-y and not very
playable on the guitar, so
I generally do the same thing as the first time and just improvise a little bit.
Fill:
B minorBm
E MajorE|--------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------------3-------------3----------------------------------|
G+G|--4-------4-----4-------4----------2-------2-------2-------2--|
D MajorD|--4--2h4-----------2h4--------2h4-----2h4-----2h4-----2h4-----|
A augmentedA|--2-----------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------------2-------|
Verses:
The picking pattern I use here is this one. I'm not sure if this is the original, but it
is close enough to
work. Simply change it for whatever chord you're currently doing.
B minorBm / A augmentedA / E minorEm / B minorBm
E MajorE|-----------------|
BB|-x-------x-------|
G+G|-x---x-------x---|
D MajorD|-x-x---x---x---x-|
A augmentedA|-x---------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|
I like changing the second half of the verse to something a little different. Also, you
may want to play the
D MajorD chord in its actual place, plucking the EBGD strings in the beginning.
B minorBm / D MajorD / A augmentedA / B minorBm
E MajorE|---------x-------|
BB|-x---------------|
G+G|-x---x-------x---|
D MajorD|-x-x---x---x---x-|
A augmentedA|-x---------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|
FULL SONG:
Intro
Fill x4
B minorBm
Well things change fast
A augmentedA
This too shall pass
E minorEm
Better carve it on your forehead
B minorBm
Or tattoo it on your ass
B minorBm
Cause who can tell
D MajorD
When the clock strikes twelve
A augmentedA
If today?s become tomorrow
B minorBm
Or if it?s all just gone to hell
My friend makes rings
She swirls and sings
She?s a mystic in the sense
That she?s still mystified by things
But scared to ask
How can nothing seem to last
Cause like a cancer in your body
It all just goes too fast
Fill x4
We think too big
We think our self is one whole thing
And we claim that this collection
Has a name and is a being
But deep inside
When every cell divides
Well it sets upon the rule that states
Self-interest is divine
And cancer, too
Lives by this golden rule
That you must do unto the others
As the others unto you
All for the best
Cause that?s all the life accepts
And so we kill it like a buffalo
With awe and with respect
Fill x4
Don?t ask God
Just holler at the sky
Cause she?ll tell it to you plainly
In the clouds that whisper by
And praise the shapes
And then praise the way they change
And they?ll teach you not to pray to light
Without you pray to rain
So I pray to hands
And I pray to needs
And I pray to blades of grass
To find forgiveness in the weeds
But as for health
I just never did believe
And so I never prayed myself
Except to those that prayed for me
Fill x4
The story goes
Or the way that I was told
There was a king that always felt too high
And then he fell too low
And so he called
All the wise men to the hall
And begged them for a gift
To end the rises and the falls
And here?s the thing
They came back with a ring
It was simple and was plainly
Unbefitting of a king
Engraved in black
Well it had no front or back
But there were words around the band that said
Just know: This Too Shall Pass
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Alternative guitar chords and tabs for This Too Shall Pass by Danny Schmidt
