Little Toy Guns Chords

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
X