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                             I'M FDE  - THE VIOLENT FEMMES
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Tabbed by:D'Argirolle
Album 'Why Do Birds Sing?' (1991)

Tuning: EADGBE

    D  G  A  F#  Bm  E 
E|--2--3--0--2---2---0-----------------------------------------------------|
B|--3--3--2--2---3---0-----------------------------------------------------|
G|--2--0--2--3---4---1-----------------------------------------------------|
D|--0--0--2--4---4---2-----------------------------------------------------|
A|--x--2--0--4---2---2-----------------------------------------------------|
E|--x--3--x--2---x---0-----------------------------------------------------|


[Chorus]

    D    G   D            D    G   A
I'm free          and I'm ha - a - ppy
     G              D
I am free from your   hatred
     G               F# 
I've parted from the part
       G      A
that I participated in 

[Chorus]

       D    G   D          D   G  A
So I'm free         it was ea  -  sy
       G               D
I know nothing of your   hatred
     G                   F#
I've known and shone the light
        G          A           D 
and the darkness abated so I'm free   [D-C#-C on A string]

[Verse]

Bm
run skip jump play, my little boy is happy
Bm                    A                          
look             he's smiling 
A                     Bm
  because he knows no fear,    hear
   E                          A
my mommy's calling me and I'm running through the fields because

[Chorus]

    D    G   D            D     G   A
I'm free          and I'm ha -  a - ppy
     G              D
I am free from your   hatred
     G               F# 
I've parted from the part
       G      A
that I participated in 
       D
So I'm free        [A-G#-G  on G string]

[Verse]

Bm
Every day in every way
            Bm
I'm getting better and better and better and better and better and better
    A
and better and better and better and better
                    Bm
because there is no fear here
Bm
why?  I can't tell you now cause I'm 
E                               A
runnin through the woods, and I just jumped a little bit higher, cause

[Chorus]

    D    G    D                   D        G     A
I'm free           and that's the way he created me to be
       G                D  
I have turned from your   hatred 
  G             F#
I turned on the light
              G                  A 
and there was nothing there that waited 
       D
to get me


D            G               D           G          
this ain't a song about that   this is a song about      (repeat to fade)