Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks
Written by Tom Petty and Mike Campbell

Unedited single released 8 July 1981 from her debut solo album "Bella Donna"
Additional vocals by Tom Petty, musical backing by The Heartbreakers
Reached #3 on Billboard Hot 100, #2 on Billboard Mainstream Rock charts
Tab based on official video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6SGDeCT88
Section times are for album track, Standard tuning, 107 BPM

[Chords]
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[Effects]
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r  Release
p  Pull off


[Intro] 0:00
            
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[Riff 1] 0:09
            
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[Verse 1] 0:27
            
Baby, you come

             
 knockin' on m

        
y front door,
            
Same old line 

             
you used to us

    
e before,
            
I said, "Yeah,

             
 well what am 

              
I supposed to 


do?"
            
I didn't know 

             
what I was get

       
tin' into.


[Chorus 1] 0:45
             
  So you've ha

           
d a little tro

uble in town,
             
  Now you're k

            
eepin' some de

mon down,
             
  Stop draggin

       
' my,    Stop 

draggin' my,
                  
      (    
  Stop draggin

  
' my heart aro

und.


[Riff 2] 1:03
            
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[Verse 2] 1:12
            
  It's hard to

             
 think about w

           
hat you've wan

ted,
            
  It's hard to

             
 think about w

           
hat you've los

t,
            
  This doesn't

              
 have to be th

         
e big get even

,
            
  This doesn't

             
 have to be an

          
ything at all.
            
  I know you r

             
eally wanna te

           
ll me good-bye

,
            
  I know you r

             
eally wanna be

          
 your own girl

.


[Chorus 2] 1:39
             
  Baby, you co

          
uld never look

 me in the eye

,
             
  Yeah, you bu

              
ckle with the 


weight of the 

words,
             
  Stop draggin

       
' my,    Stop 

draggin' my,
                  
      (    
  Stop draggin

  
' my heart aro

und.


[Interlude] 1:
            
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[Riff 3] 2:24
            
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[Verse 3] 2:35
            
  There's peop

              
le runnin' rou

             
nd loose in th

  
e world,
            
  Ain't got no

             
thin' better t

  
o do,
            
  Than make a 

             
meal of some b

           
right eyed kid

,
            
  You need som

             
eone lookin' a

     
fter you.
            
  I know you r

             
eally wanna te

           
ll me good-bye

,
            
  I know you r

             
eally wanna be

          
 your own girl

.


[Chorus 3] 3:01
             
  Baby, you co

          
uld never look

 me in the eye

,
             
  Yeah, you bu

              
ckle with the 


weight of the 

words,
             
  Stop draggin

       
' my,    Stop 

draggin' my,
                  
      (    
  Stop draggin

  
' my heart aro

und.


[Outtro] 3:18
              

            
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' my heart aro

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und.

            
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ggin' my heart

  
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 around.

            
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op draggin' my heart around.
ding)


            
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      (video) 
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      Stop dra
ere)          

             
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ggin' my heart
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 silence)

[End] 4:00