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tabbed by kevin ricker.

love cuts the strings is a damn hard song to strum.  i can't play it with the
correct strum, but i can give a little bit of the intensity by correctly
doing the guitar part that comes after every verse.

the chords are G,C,D, and  a fucked up F thing that looks like this
                        E A D G B E
			| | | | | | 1st fret
			| | | 1 | | 2nd fret
			| | 2   3 4 3rd fret

that is also the kind of C you should play (i.e.)
			E A D G B E
			| | | | | |
			| | 1 | | |
			| 2 | | 3 4
so all you have to do on the verse is move your 1&2 fingers

the song goes

G                                    C                G C F C F C G
the first thing that happened was the river overflowed
{that is not as hard as it looks. just run between the F and the C in any
combination, as long as you get back to the G in time to start the next
verse.}

all the verses are like the first

D        C                    G  C F C F C G
then love summoned up the infantry