Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn

Chords

Standard

# . . .and another fancier G:

#      Fancy G
     |
A||--2--||
E||--3--||
C||--2--||
G||--4--||


# The song basically has four parts:

             D            Dsus4 D
             |  | | |  |  |  |  |  |
        A||--0--0-0-0--0--0--0--0--0--||
Part 1  E||--2--2-2-2--2--3--3--2--2--||
        C||--2--2-2-2--2--2--2--2--2--||
        G||--2--2-2-2--2--0--0--2--2--||
    
             C            Em C  Em A7sus4
             |  | | |  |  |  |  |  |
        A||--3--3-3-3--3--2--3--2--0--||
Part 2  E||--0--0-0-0--0--3--0--3--0--||
        C||--0--0-0-0--0--4--0--4--2--||
        G||--0--0-0-0--0--0--0--0--0--||

             G            Fancy G
             |  | | |  |  |    |
        A||--2--2-2-2--2--2----2----||
Part 3  E||--3--3-3-3--3--3----3----||
        C||--2--2-2-2--2--2----2----||
        G||--0--0-0-0--0--4----4----||

             D             Dsus4 D
             |  | | |  | | |  |  |  |
        A||--0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0--0--0--||
Part 4  E||--2--2-2-2--2-2-3--3--2--2--||
        C||--2--2-2-2--2-2-2--2--2--2--||
        G||--2--2-2-2--2-2-0--0--2--2--||

# . . .and they are played in the order detailed below. (I 
# added some |'s to help give the order some structure so it 
# is a little easier to follow. For repeating sections, I also 
# added a note above detailing what parts are repeated and how 
# many times.)

#       (1 2)x5      | |       |         |       |   
# 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2|3|1 1 2 3|1 2 1 2 3|1 1 2 3|1 2 1 2 3

#        |     |       |       |         |       |   (1)x6   |
# 1 2 2 3|1 2 1|1 1 2 3|1 1 2 3|1 2 1 2 3|1 1 2 3|1 1 1 1 1 1|

#  |    (4)x7    |   | (1)x4 | |       |       |       |
# 2|4 4 4 4 4 4 4|2 3|1 1 1 1|3|1 1 2 3|1 1 2 3|1 1 2 3|1


# (Without all the fancy visual aids, the order just looks 
# like:
# 121212121231123121231123121231223121112311231212311231111
# 112444444423111131123112311231 a.k.a. a mess.)