Buddy Miller    vocals/electric guitar 
Emmylou Harris  acoustic guitar/harmony 
Steve Fishell   steel guitar 
Brady Blade     drums 
Darul Johnson   bass 
Phil Madeira    organ 
John Schreiner  piano 
 
 
D  A  G   D  A  G 
 
        D               A 
Tell my heart to stop beating 
        Bm              G 
Tell my mind    not  to think 
        D            A 
Throw a stone in the ocean 
          Bm           G  
Tell that stone not to sink 
G                      D        A    Asus                 
Tell the world to stop turning round 
         G                Bm   A 
Tell the sky not to be so blue 
         G             D       A    Asus  G 
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears 
               D     A      Asus G 
But don't tell me to stop loving you 
           D     A      Asus D    G 
Don't tell me to stop loving you 
                        A  Asus 
Tell the past to be forgotten 
        Bm          G  
Tell my life not to exist 
       D                     A  Asus 
Tell a promise made  to be unspoken 
       Bm                     G 
And my lips not to have been kissed 
G                      D        A                     
Tell the world to stop turning round 
         G                Bm   A 
Tell the sky not to be so blue 
         G             D       A          G 
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears 
               D     A    Asus   G 
But don't tell me to stop loving you 
           D     A    Asus   D     
Don't tell me to stop loving you 
G 
I can't do it 
                  D                        A  Asus A 
I can't stop it's something that love has sealed 
G                D               A       Asus  A 
Only the broken hearted know the way I feel 
 
SOLO 
 
G                      D        A                     
Tell the world to stop turning round 
         G                 Bm   A 
Tell the sky not to be so blue 
         G             D       A          G 
Tell the rain to start falling down like tears 
               D  A       Asus   G 
But don't tell me to stop loving you 
           D  A       Asus   D    G   D 
Don't tell me to stop loving you 
 
From Buddy Miller "Poison Love" CD 
Hightone Records 1997 
Tinker Tunes/Martha Road Music 
 
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