Sticks and Stones Song Lyrics and Chords by Tracy Lawrence
Sticks and Stones
Recorded by Tracy Lawrence
Written by Mindi Beth Abair and Matthew W. Hager
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You can take the house and everything in it
Keep the diamond ring 'cause that's how I meant it
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Sticks and stones are
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all they ever were to
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me
This material life with all it's value
Don't mean a thing to me without you
The
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love that we once had is all I
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need
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take everything we have if it makes ya
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happy
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darling let me say before I
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leav
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These stick
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s and stones ain't all
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that makes a home
They don't
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have arms to
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hold you when love goes
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wrong
Now you say that we are
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through
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These sticks and stones may
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break
me
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But the words you said
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just tore my heart in
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Remember when we didn't have a dime between us
You took my hand and said we don't need much
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Just as long as we're
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together we would be
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fine
Now we've acquired all I thought would please you
I gave everything you know that I could
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still you're telling me you're not satis
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fied
So
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take everything we have if it makes ya
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happy
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darling let me say before I
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leav
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Repeat #2
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These sticks and stones may
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break
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But the words you said
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just tore my heart in
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Sticks and Stones?
- The song Sticks and Stones was sang by Tracy Lawrence.
Who is Tracy Lawrence?
- Tracy Lee Lawrence (born January 27, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Atlanta, Texas and raised in Foreman, Arkansas, Lawrence began performing at age 15 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1990 to begin his country music career. He signed to Atlantic Records Nashville in 1991 and made his debut late that year with the album Sticks and Stones. Five more studio albums, as well as a live album and a compilation album, followed throughout the 1990s and into 2000 on Atlantic before the label's country division was closed in 2001. Afterward, he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, DreamWorks Records, Mercury Records Nashville, and his own labels, Rocky Comfort Records and Lawrence Music Group.
Lawrence has released a total of 14 studio albums. His most commercially successful albums are Alibis (1993) and Time Marches On (1996), both certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He has charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including eight songs that reached the number one position: "Sticks and Stones", "Alibis", "Can't Break It to My Heart", "My Second Home", "If the Good Die Young", "Texas Tornado", "Time Marches On", and "Find Out Who Your Friends Are". Of these, "Time Marches On" is his longest-lasting at three weeks, while "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" set a record at the time for the slowest ascent to the top of that chart. His musical style is defined mainly by neotraditional country and honky-tonk influences, although he has also recorded country pop, Christmas music, and Christian country music. He has won Top New Male Vocalist from Billboard in 1992 and from Academy of Country Music in 1993, and Vocal Event of the Year from the Country Music Association in 2007.