Chord/Tab song: Hold Her Down

Subject: TAB: "Hold Her Down" by Toad the Wet Sprocket

"Hold Her Down"


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by Todd Nichols, Glen Phillips and Toad The Wet Sprocket
As recorded on _Fear_
Transcribed by John S. Jacob

E 022100
E/G 322100
G 320033
Am x02210
Am/G 302210
C x32010
C/B x2x010
D xx0232
Dsus4 xx0233

[Riff 1]
[E]

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B-|--------0-h2-p0-----------0--------|
G-|-----------------1-h2-p1-----------|
D-|-----------------------------------|
A-|-----------------------------------|
E-|--0--------------------------------|


[G] [A5]

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B-|-----------------0--------0--------|
G-|-----------0-h2--------2-----2-----|
D-|-----0-h2-----------------------2--|
A-|--------------------0--------------|
E-|--3--------------------------------|


[Riff 2]
[E]

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B-|--------0-h2-p0-----------0--------|
G-|-----------------1-h2-p1-----------|
D-|-----------------------------------|
A-|-----------------------------------|
E-|--0--------------------------------|


[Intro] [Riff1]x2 (acoustic)
[Riff1]x2 (all instruments)

[Riff1]x4
take her arms and hold her down and
hold her down and hold her down and hold her down
until she stops moving
take her arms and hold her down and
hold her down and hold her down and hold her down
until she she stops kicking

[G] and they don't [D]know her
but [Am]what the [E]fuck
they've got [G]nothing [D]else they can [E]do[E/G][E][E/G]
[G] and they've no [D]reason
but [Am]still [Am/G]they [E]come
[D] [Dsus4] [D]
[and] [i]
would have a [C]hard [C/B]time [Am]fac[Am/G]ing [E]you[E/G][E][E/G]
this [D]crime[Dsus4][D]
C C/B Am Am/G [Riff1]x 2
I've seen what a man can do

[Riff1]x4
take her arms and hold her down and
hold her down and hold her down and hold her down
until she stops screaming
take her arms and hold her down and
hold her down and hold her down and hold her down
until she stops breathing

and they don't know her
but what the fuck
they've got nothing else they can do
and there's no reason
but still they come
[and]woul[i]d have a hard time facing you
this crime
the shame of [C]what [C/B]a [Am]man [Am/G]can [E]do[E/G][E][E/G]
i would have [D]died[Dsus4][D]
C C/B Am Am/G [Riff2]x2 [Riff1] E
from all the hell that you've been through

(tacit eight beats)

[Solo]
[G] [D] [Am] [E]

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[G] [D] [E]

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[G] [D] [Am] [E]

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[G] [D] [Am] [Am/G] [E]

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[G] [D] [Am] [E]

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take the night back all they've stolen

[G] [D] [E] [E/G]

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all we took from you

[G] [D] [Am] [E]

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take the night back all they've stolen

[C] [C/B] [Am] [Am/G] [E]

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G-|--/16----------/16----------16------------x\---9\-----|
D-|------------------------------------------x\---9\-----|
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all we took from you

[--] [ John S. Jacob ]
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