Bein' Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)
REO Speedwagon
From the Album-REO II
1972
Written by Kevin Cronin
Tabbed by Ray Scheidler 


Intro/Verse Pattern

    Emsus2       Em7sus4
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G-----(4)---4------2---2---2---2----------------
D-----(4)---4-----------------------------------
A-----(2)---2------2---2---2---2----0-----------
E--0------------0------------------------0------

    Emsus2                 Em7sus4
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B----------------------------3----3----3----3---
G-----(4)----4---------------2----2----2----2---
D-----(4)----4----------------------------------
A-----(2)----2---------------2----2----2----2---
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  (Intro/Verse Pattern) throughout:

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G--4------------------------7----------------4--
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E-----5---7/10\7---5--------------------------7-
B--3-------------------8--7--8--7---3--5---5----
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E--5--------------------------------------------
B-----8--7---3--(5)-----------------------------
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Emsus2            Em7sus4         Emsus2 Em7sus4
Please don't worry now about the morning

Emsus2              Em7sus4           Emsus2 Em7sus4
When it's time we'll sip our wine and sleep

    Asus2     Em7sus4   A                  C + Riff 1
But I've been known to love more than one person


Riff 1
  <                  >       Asus2      Em7sus4
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G--4--2--0---------------------2----------------
D------------2---0-------------2----------------
A--------------------2--------------------------
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                        Oh and I've been shown

      A              C               Emsus2
That bein' kind can hurt someone sometimes


(Intro/Verse Pattern)


Emsus2      Em7sus4            Emsus2  Em7sus4
Listen to my words now look no further

Emsus2              Em7sus4        Emsus2 Em7sus4
What you've seen is what I mean no more

   Asus2      Em7sus4   A                  C + Riff 1
But I've been known to love more than one person

      Asus2      Em7sus4     A
Oh and I've been shown that bein' kind

     C                Em
Can hurt someone sometimes

 D      A      Em       G G D D   A       Em G G D D
Don't dream of answers      I've none to give

      A         Em
They burn like cancers

G     G   D          A       Emsus2 + Intro
And they just won't let you live     no no


Interlude:


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                  Asus2       Em7sus4   A
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                   I've  been known to love more

          C + Riff 1       Asus2     Em7sus4
Than one person     oh and I've been shown that

 A          C                    Em
Bein' kind can hurt someone sometimes

 D      A      Em
Don't dream of answers

 G     G   D         A       Em G G D D
Cause you know I've none to give

    A         Em
We move like dancers

                           A A A A A A
Stepping on each other to live


And bouncin' hard


We're both animals in the yard

      D D D D D D
And there's no healin' broken feelin'

         C               D
There's no denyin' that bein kind

     A A A A A
Can hurt someone sometimes

                      D
Oh there's no denyin' oh lord there's no denyin'

      C              D                Em Em Em Em Em
That bein' kind can hurt someone sometimes


Repeat and fade