Little Sister Guitar Tab

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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 01:12:03 -0500
From: David Hempy 
Subject: TAB: j/jewel/little_sister.tab  UPDATED

   Little Sister      By Jewel
                      From the "pieces of you" album 
                      Atlantic Records

Original poster:
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:11:20 +0000
From: Sam Hollis 

I've taken Sam's interpretation and made some minor changes
that made it easier for me to learn to sing and play Little Sister.  
I've added measures to the tab and broken the lyrics into measures.
Everything else is the same.  Oh, yeah... I changed 2p0 to 3p2 in 
the D chords...play it like you like!  Thank you Sam!
-dave

The whole song is the chords D D C G picked over and over:

Intro:                                                           
     D                                            
D                        
E-|-----------2--------0h2--------3p2-----------|--------------
B-|-----3--------3----------3----------3-----3--|-----3--------
G-|--------2--------2----------2----------2-----|--------2-----
D-|--0------------------------------------------|--0-----------
A-|---------------------------------------------|--------------
E-|---------------------------------------------|--------------

                                         C                     
E---2--------0h2--------3p2-----------|------------------------
B------3----------3----------3-----3--|-----------0------------
G---------2----------2----------2-----|-----0--------0---------
D-------------------------------------|--------2--------2------
A-------------------------------------|--3---------------------
E-------------------------------------|------------------------

                         G                                     
E---0-----------------|-----------3--------3--------3----------
B------------0--------|--------------3--------3--------3-------
G------0--------0-----|-----0-----------0--------0--------0----
D---------2--------2--|--------0-------------------------------
A---------------------|----------------------------------------
E---------------------|--3-------------------------------------

Continue picking throughout rest of tune.  Jewel doesn't keep her
lyrics lined up nicely with the measures (bless her soul!) so
some of the breaks below might not be quite perfect.  Have fun!

D: Hey little sister I heard you went to Mr. 
D: So and So, knock, knock, knocking on 
C: his door again last night, said you 
G: needed it bad- you know that ain't right. 
D: 'Cause so many times you've come to 
D: me cry crying trying to stop, you said it 
C: hurts so bad but please don't let you 
G: go back for more. 

D: My little sister is a Zombie in a body with no
D: soul a role she has learned to play in a 
C: world today where nothing else matters 
G: but it matters, we gotta start feeding our 
D: souls Not our addictions or afflictons of pain to 
D: avoid the same questions we must
C: ask ourselves to get any answers. 
G: We gotta start feeding our 

D: souls have been lost to the millions with lots 
D: who feed on addictions selling pills and what's hot I
C: wish I could save her from all their delusions,
G: all the confusion 
D: of a nation that starves for salvation 
D: but clothing is the closest approximation to 
C: God and he only knows that drugs are
G: all we know of love 

[Instrumental Verse]

D: Every day we starve while we eat white 
D: bread and beer instead of a handshake or 
C: hug we spill the pills and sweep them
G: under the rug 

D: My little sister is a Zombie in a body with 
D: no soul a role she has learned to play in a 
C: world today where nothing else matters 
G: but it matters we gotta start feeding our 

D: sooouuuls...
D:
C:
G:

D: Hey little sister i heard you went to Mr. 
D: So and So's knock, knock, knocking on his 
C: door again last night said you 
G: needed more.

Sam Hollis -ELA96SMH@Sheffield.ac.uk
David Hempy -hempy@ket.org

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture chris Professional	#1 by chris vlasic at Mar 18, 1973 at 4:09 AM EST
	Jewel is just so. . . with it. She knows exactly what the world is and will turn into and she's trying to make us see. Like 'Look, all these young kids are taking drugs and doing all these things that aren't right.' She's just so honest about the world. I love it. Great song. I often feel this same way about some of my friends. Like they're going down the wrong path and I just wish that I could save them. 1

No Picture ian Average	#2 by ian mckinly at May 17, 1980 at 12:26 PM EST
	This song is amazing....reading the lyrics doesn't even do her great songwriting justice - it has to be heard - the rhythm just brings out words that rhyme and it all ties together so well. I think this song has growing relevance in a country where a lot of people think that they can just do to the doctor and drugs will solve their problem, when the reality is that "We've got to start feeding our souls Not our addictions or afflictions of pain to avoid the same questions we must ask ourselves to get any answers." It's great because I think the song can relate to either people who become dependent on illegal drugs, or people who abuse prescription painkillers or antidepressants, and of course, the people who have to drink themselves to sleep every night.

No Picture black&red Wanna Be	#3 by black&red at Dec 16, 1981 at 4:18 AM EST
	without doubt the song treats about those persons that are initiated in the road of the drugs to early age, by different reasons, and the drug does not necessarily be going to refer to stimulants, also indicates excess of anything, to something to what be found very attached, for which would do of all to maintain it in its life

No Picture Nick Wanna Be	#4 by Nick Maertens at Feb 26, 1990 at 4:24 AM EST
	[but clothing is the closest approximation to God] True. Great. Honest and refreshing to today's culture.

No Picture Jared Wanna Be	#5 by Jared Janak at Feb 9, 2007 at 9:33 AM EST
	I actually know what this song is about...go me. It's about my Dad's girlfriends little sister. I'll ask her about it more...not really familiar with the whole story. She had two sisters...both are dead now. I think the one this song is talking about got shot...but I'm not sure...I'll come back and write more as soon as I know more...