Carrie Underwood - Little Toy Guns
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Key: E minor (E F# G A B C D E)
Tempo: 81 bpm
Transcribed by Robert from Astlessons
[Intro]
Em7 G Dsus4 A7sus4 x2
[Verse 1]
Em Cadd9
In between the coats in the closet, she held on to that heart-shaped locket
G D Dsus4 D
Staring at a family, flawless, but it ain't a pretty picture tonight
Em Cadd9
Mom and daddy just won't stop it, fighting at the drop of a faucet
G D B7
Cuts through the walls, catastrophic, she's caught in the crossfire
[Pre-Chorus]
Em C G
Puts her hands over her ears, starts talking through the tears
D B7
She's saying, and she's praying
[Chorus 1]
Em C
I wish words were like little toy guns, no sting, no hurting no one
G D
Just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
Em C
Yeah, no smoke, no bullets, no kick from the trigger when you pull it
Cadd9 G D
No pain, no damage done (wish words were like little toy guns)
Cadd9 G D
And just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
[Interlude]
Em7 G Dsus4 A7sus4
[Verse 2]
Em C
Wish there was a white flag waving, or that they were both just faking
G D
And it was just a game they were playing, like shoot-'em-up cowboys
Em C G
Leave the plastic pistols in the front yard, throw away the scorecard
D B7
And just turn off all the noise
[Chorus 2]
Em C
I wish words were like little toy guns, no sting, no hurting no one
G D
Just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
Em C
Yeah, no smoke, no bullets, no kick from the trigger when you pull it
Cadd9 G D
No pain, no damage done (wish words were like little toy guns)
Cadd9 G D
And just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
Em C G D
Toy guns
[Bridge]
Em7 Cadd9
Oh, I wish they didn't cut like a knife, I wish they didn't break you inside
G D
I wish they didn't bang, bang, make you wanna run
[Chorus 3]
Em C
Yeah, like little toy guns, no sting, no hurting no one
G D
Just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
Em C
Yeah, no smoke, no bullets, no shot from the trigger when you pull it
Cadd9 G D
No pain, no damage done (wish words were like little toy guns)
Cadd9 G D
And just a bang, bang, rolling off your tongue (wish words were like little toy guns)
Em7 G Dsus4
Toy guns
A7sus4 Em7 G Dsus4 A7sus4 Em
Oh, like little toy guns
Chords:
Em7 (0 2 2 0 3 3)
G (3 2 0 0 3 3)
Dsus4 (X X 0 2 3 3)
A7sus4 (X 0 2 2 3 3)
Cadd9 (X 3 2 0 3 3)
D (X X 0 2 3 2)
B7 (X 2 1 2 0 2)
B11 (X 2 1 2 0 0)
Em (0 2 2 0 0 0)
C (X 3 2 0 1 0)
Clarification:
Chordname (E A D G B E)
X = Don't play / Muffle
Information:
Even though you can't hear the D and G notes in the verses he (the guitarist) might still hold an
Em7 instead of Em, and same goes for some of the C chords (so might hold a Cadd9 but doesn't play
those strings), also on some B7 there's a fast switch to B11 before the next chord
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//Robert