Tim McGraw

Words Are Medicine(Chords)

Tim McGraw

Key: G

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Capo on 3rd fret
	        

G 
        G              
For the light sleeper, the street sweeper, 
C 
Promise breaker, promise keeper, 
    D  
The astronaut, the acrobat, 
    C 
The underdog who is coming back. 
              G                       
Maybe you're hooked On Phonics or Mary Jane; 
C 
Coca Cola or cocaine. 
D 
We're just a different kind of the same, yeah. 
C 
Sticks and stones can break you. 
   
               G                     C 
But words are medicine, words are medicine. 
         D  
When I'm black and blue, I'm broken and bruised, 
   C 
I hear your voice again. 
           G 
Words are medicine. 

G 
The beautician, the mortician, 
  C 
The blinded sided, the night vision, 
  D 
The baptized, the chicken fried, 
  C 
The rolled tide, the unforgiven. 

         G 
For the girl who is lost in romance novels, 
    C 
The guy who sees through whiskey goggles 
D 
We're just a different kind of the same, yeah. 
C 
Sticks and stones can break you. 

               G                     C 
But words are medicine, words are medicine. 
         D  
When I'm black and blue, you're broken and bruised, 
     C 
Just hear my voice again. 
           G 
Words are medicine. 

 Em 
I do. I will. 
I believe in you still. 
         C 
I have a dream. 
Imagine. 
A shining city on a hill. 
   D 
I'm sorry. Forgive me. 
  C 
I love you. 
I love you. 

           G                   Bm 
Words are medicine. Words are medicine. 
             D 
When you're black and blue, you're broken and bruised, 
      C 
Just hear my voice again: 
           G                     C 
Words are medicine. Words are medicine. 
           D  
When we're black and blue, we're broken and bruised, 
  C 
I hear your song , my friend. 
           G                   C 
Words are medicine. Words are medicine. 
           G                   C 
Words are medicine. Words are mediciiiiiiine. 

G, C x4
	        

Written by Tom Douglas/Dave Hodges/Zac Maloy

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