Wild Horses

Words & Music:

Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

 

If you want the original sound for this tune, you will need three guitars:  acoustic one in "Nashville tuning" (low E, A & D strings are tuned up one octave), acoustic two in Open G (D G D G B D) and an electric for in standard tuning.  Also, feel free to toggle back & forth from G to Gsus4 during any G chord; same for D to Dadd2.  Dadd2 is the same as Dsus2 (x 0 0 2 3 0). There is an arrangement of this in the May 2008 issue of Acoustic Guitar.

 

G  Am7  G  Gsus4  Am7  G

 

Bm        G     Bm          G  Gsus4  G

Childhood living is easy to do.

Am         G   C    D  G                  D  Dadd2  D

The things you wanted, I brought them for you.

Bm        G     Bm             G

Graceless lady, you know who I am;

Am         G     C     D G                D

You know I can't let you slide through my hands.

 

CHORUS:

Am   G   C   D G         F       G C  Bm

Wild---- horses couldn't drag me away;

Am       G C    D G        F       G C

Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away.

 

I watched you suffer a dull aching pain.

Now you decided to show me the same.

No sweeping exit or off-stage lines

Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind.

 

CHORUS:

 

INTRUMENTAL OVER:  Fsus2  C [3x]  D  G

 

I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie.

I have my freedom, but I don't have much time.

Faith has been broken, tears must be cried.

Let's do some living after we die.

 

CHORUS:

 

G     F         C   G

We'll ride them someday.