Buddy Miller vocals/electric guitar
Emmylou Harris acoustic guitar/harmony
Steve Fishell steel guitar
Brady Blade drums
Darul Johnson bass
Phil Madeira organ
John Schreiner piano
D A G D A G
D A
Tell my heart to stop beating
Bm G
Tell my mind not to think
D A
Throw a stone in the ocean
Bm G
Tell that stone not to sink
G D A Asus
Tell the world to stop turning round
G Bm A
Tell the sky not to be so blue
G D A Asus G
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears
D A Asus G
But don't tell me to stop loving you
D A Asus D G
Don't tell me to stop loving you
A Asus
Tell the past to be forgotten
Bm G
Tell my life not to exist
D A Asus
Tell a promise made to be unspoken
Bm G
And my lips not to have been kissed
G D A
Tell the world to stop turning round
G Bm A
Tell the sky not to be so blue
G D A G
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears
D A Asus G
But don't tell me to stop loving you
D A Asus D
Don't tell me to stop loving you
G
I can't do it
D A Asus A
I can't stop it's something that love has sealed
G D A Asus A
Only the broken hearted know the way I feel
SOLO
G D A
Tell the world to stop turning round
G Bm A
Tell the sky not to be so blue
G D A G
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears
D A Asus G
But don't tell me to stop loving you
D A Asus D G D
Don't tell me to stop loving you
From Buddy Miller "Poison Love" CD
Hightone Records 1997
Tinker Tunes/Martha Road Music
http://www.nashville.net/~kate/buddym.html