For What Its Worth - Buffalo Springfield

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Song: For what it's worth (Stop, hey what's that sound)
Artist: The Buffalo Springfield
Composer: Stephen Stills
Tabbed by DJ  1st June 2020

To hear the track, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY

FINE TUNING: The original album and single version
sounds flat of standard tuning. Maybe the backing
tracks were slowed down intentionally before adding
the vocals, or just mixed at different studios with
uncalibrated tape decks, recorded at Columbia Studios,
but possibly mixed at Atlantic's.
To match the original recording you need to de-tune 
your strings, use a cromatic tuner for reference,
lower your strings by approx. minus 45 cents below
standard pitch. Live concert versions may be more in
standard pitch to play along with, so no detuning
should be necessary then.
Don't use TV studio appearances though, they were 
usually mimed to the original studio track.

Linking Riff:

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[Riff]
             
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[Verse 1]
             
    There's so

              
mething happen

          
ing here,
             
What it is ain

             
't exactly cle

    
ar,
             
There's a man 

              
with a gun ove

         
r there,
             
A -telling me 

              
I got to be - 

      
ware

[Chorus]
              
Think it's tim

     
e we stopped!
          
Children, what

's that sound?
             
Everybody look

        
 what's going 

down!

[Riff]
             
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[Verse 2]
             
    There's ba

              
ttle lines bei

          
ng drawn,
             
Nobody's right

              
 if everybody'

          
s wrong,
             
   Young peopl

              
e speaking the

          
ir minds,
             
A - getting so

              
 much resistan

            
ce from be - h


ind

[Chorus]
             
It's time we s

              
topped!  Hey, 


what's that so

und?
             
Everybody look

        
 what's going 

down!

[Riff]
             
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[Verse 3]
             
   What a fiel

              
d day for the 

     
heat,
                           (Oo,   oo...)

             
  A thousand p

             
eople in the s

       
treet,
(...oo------------------!  Oo,     oo...)

             
Singing songs 

              
and a - carryi

         
ng signs,
    (...oo---------------!     Oo,    oo...)

             
Mostly say hoo

             
ray for our si

     
de
   (...oo-----

---------!  Oo

,    oo!)

[Chorus]
             
It's time we s

              
topped!  Hey, 


what's that so

und?
             
Everybody look

        
 what's going 

down!

[Riff]
             
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Paranoia strik

         
es deep,
             
Into your life

             
 it will creep

   
,
             
It starts when

              
 you're always

            
 a - fraid,
             
Step out of li

              
ne the man com

             
e and take you

     
 a - way

[Chorus]
             
We better stop

        
!  Hey, what's

 that sound?
             
Everybody look

        
 what's going.

..
             
We better stop

        
!  Hey, what's

 that sound?
             
Everybody look

        
 what's going.

..
             
We better stop

        
 now!   What's

 that sound?
             
Everybody look

        
 what's going.

..
             
We better stop

            
!  Childen, wh

at's that soun

d?
             
Everybody look

        
 what's going 

down!

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