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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:04:44 EST
From: WishMonstr 
Subject: TAB: shed_your_skin.tab by Indigo Girls

Shed Your Skin (Amy Ray)
from: Shaming of the Sun
(in 4/4 time)
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F: 133211

E F E F E F E F

E           F
one hundred fifteen
E      F    E     F       E      F
you are 17, Itchy trigger venemous
E              F       E              F
you're growing longer, you're growing stronger
E            F          E        F (hold)
so shed your skin baby, now shed this
*nc*            Am C G F             Am
Come on over now       come on over baby
    C            G
you tell me it's holy holy
F
I don't know what it is, come on over now
Am                C
Let's call it the fullness of time
G                    F
I don't know what it is, come on over now
Am       C          G          F
hey holy console me some power controls me
Am         C          G             F
remorse it I force it can't free it so be it

E F E F E F E F

E               F        E        F
I'm speaking in tounges, handling you
E     F           E       F
I got religon now look at it
E             F      E          F
the days grow longer as we grow stronger
E            F         E      F (hold)
so shed your skin baby let it rip
                Am C G F
come on over now       come on over baby
C            G          F
tell me it's holy holy, I don't know what that is
come on over child
Am                C
I want to call it the fullness of time
G                      F
But I don't know if it is, come on over now
Am       C          G          F
hey holy console me some power controls me
Am         C         G
Remorse it I force it don't free it
F           F            F         (stop)
just be it  just be it   just be it

The finger picking patterns:

A chord pattern    G chord pattern
e---------------   e-------------
B-------2-----0-   B-------0----0
G---2-----2-----   G---0-----0---
D-----2-----2---   D-----0-----0-
A-0-------------   A-------------
E---------------   E-2-----------

F chord pattern    E chord pattern
e-------1-----1    e--------------
B---1-----1----    B-------0-----0
G-----2-----2--    G---1-----1----
D-3------------    D-----2-----2--
A--------------    A-2------------
E--------------    E--------------

*finger picking*
A  G  F  E

A                    G
I've been looking to find you
           F                   E
but it's a little too late too soon
A                 G
I've been looking far and out but the
F                E
spirits are your doom
(strumming again)
E          Esus (sounds best if pinky is on 2nd fret)
in you     in you

*bridge*
All right, I have minimal idea as to what is happening
here.  A lot of it is bass, and the bass
boom-boomboom-boom part can be best recreated by playing
the low E string.  The chords played up until then
might be * Am C D11 *, but I'm not sure.  Suggestions
welcomed!  =)

*nc*
I got the hangman, I got Milagro
I got the celebration too
E            F
the flesh is strong
E         F
my spirit stronger
E            F
so shed your skin baby
E      F      (stop)
let it through
                Am C G F
come on over now       Come on over baby
Am               C
you tell me it's holy holy
G                    F
I don't know what it is, come on over child
Am                    C
I want to call it the fullness of time
G                      F
But I don't know if it is
come on over now
Am       C          G          F
hey holy console me some power controls me
F (hold)
come on over baby

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