Burdens Of Being Upright

Tracy Bonham Fakebook from "The Burdens of Being Upright"

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All songs tabbed by Frederic Maquet

All of it should be correct. I haven't put in all the solos, but

then there aren't that many in the album....Playing it is pretty

simple, which shows Tracy Bonham's "genius", she can make easy songs

sound really cool...What a voice!!

Hope you like it!

Email me for corrections/comments!!! at f.maquet@ic.ac.uk

1. Mother Mother

2. Navy Been

3. Tell it to the sky

4. Kisses

5. Brain Crack

6. The One

7. One Hit Wonder

8. Sharks Can't Sleep

9. Bullday

10. Every Breath

11. 30 seconds

12. The Real

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Mother Mother - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

Verse 1:

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Mother Mother, how's the family? I'm just calling to say hello

How's the weather, how's my father? Am I lonely? Heavens no.

Mother mother, are you listening, just a phone call to ease your mind,

Life is perfect, never better, distance making, the heart grow by,

Chorus: (distorted)

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Well you sent me off to see the world

But you're scared that I might get hurt

Would I try a little tobacco?

Would I keep on hikin up my skirt?

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A (stop) A (stop) A (stop)

I'm hungry, I'm dirty, I'm losing my mind,

F# (add lots of sliding noise!)

(scream)Everything's fine

I'm freezing, I'm starving, I'm bleeding to death,

Everything's fine!

Verse 2: (same chords all the way through)

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Yeah I'm working, making money, I'm just starting to build a name

I can feel it, down the corner, I can make it any day...

Mother mother, can you hear me? Sure I'm sober, sure I'm sane

Life is perfect, never better, still your daughter, still the same.

Chorus 2: (same chords as chorus 1)

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Should I tell you what you want to hear?

Will it help you to sleep well at night,

Are you sure that I'm your perfect dear

Now just cuddle up and sleep tight...

Bridge: play 1st bridge

End on:

A (stop) A (stop) A (stop)

I miss you I love you

End....

Chords:

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A 577655 or 002220

G# 466544

G 355433

F# 244322

E 022100

D x00232 or 557775

C 032010 or 335553

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Navy Been - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

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Electric

e:--------------------------|-----|

B:--------------------------|-----|

G:--------------------------|play-|

D:--------------------------|-----|

A:--------------------------|-x4--|

E:--3--3--6--3--6--3--1--2--|-----|

then:

Bass

G:--------------------------|play-|

D:--------------------------|-x4--|

A:--------------------------|with-|

E:---3--3--6--3--6--3--1--2-|elec-|

Then: With electric:

G Bb G F x4

Verse 1:

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Bass: G Bb G F

Navy been is bigger than it seems

Put it on don't ask what it means

(electric):

Vibrate around

Verse 2: (same progression as verse 1 unless indicated)

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Cellophane is thicker than it seems

Put it on don't ask what it means

Vibrate around

Vibrate oohohoho Vibrate

Around

Verse 3: (exactly the same progression as verse 1)

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Shaving cream is thicker than it seems

Shave'em off don't ask what it means

Vibrate around

Verse 4: (similar to verse 2)

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An angel wing is caught up in the tree

If you know what's best get the hell away from me

Vibrate ohooho Vibrate G Bb G F

Vibrate ohohoho Vibrate around

|------------| play x3

Bridge: (slow, fingerpick the chords)

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Oh you little Navy Been, are you caught up in the tree?

Navy Been Navy Been

(play above once more...)

Navy Been, Navy Been(scream)

Solo is over: the chords G Bb G F

Verse 5: repeat verse 2, with:

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Vibrate around x4

Repeat intro...end on G.

End.

Chords:

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G 355433

Bb 688766

F 133211

G# 466544

A# 688766

B 224442

F# 244322

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Tell it to the sky - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

Lyrics are a bit dodgy...

Intro/Verse: (clean guitar)

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e:--------------------------|--|---0--------|

B:--------------------------|--|---0--------|

G:--------0-----------4-----|--|---1--------|

D:-----0-----------4-----4--|x3|---2--------|

A:-----------0--2-----------|--|---2--------|

E:--3-----------------------|--|---0--------|

Verse 1:

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It makes you reek

It makes you strong

G B E (single strum)

Benine in your blood to burn

It took your nights

You took my star

One I wished on last year

Chorus: (heavy distortion man...)

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AaaaaaaaHaaaaaAhhaaHAaaa x4 <- you try to tab a scream out!!

Tell it to the sky x3

Run over

Verse 2: (same progression as verse 1)

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So you fucked up

All that we had

I took the ball and benine

It makes you reek

It makes you strong

Benine in your blood to burn

Chorus 2: (play chorus 1)

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Twice?

Solo: distort

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Played over the chords G E x3

I see you

Bridge: (clean)

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Coming back to me

I hear you're coming back, ..... to me (go straight to chorus3)

Chorus 3: =chorus2

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Play intro (clean)....

i.e: G B x3 E (single strum)

finite...

Chords:

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G 320033 or 355433

B 224442

A 577655 or 002220

G# 466544

C 335553

E 022100

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Kisses - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

Note: Dropped D tuning!

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e:----------------------------|--|

B:----------------------------|--|

G:----------------------------|--|

D:----------------------------|x4|

A:-------0-----0-----0--0h1p0-|--|

D:-3--3-----3-----3-----------|--|

------ twiddle

e:----------------------------|---|---------|

B:--------------------2-------|---|---------|

G:--------------------3----2--|---|---------|

D:--------------------3----3--|---|---------|

A:----0-----0-----0---1----3--|---|-0h1p0---|

D:-3-----3-----3-----------3--|---|---------|

F Bb F play intro F riff

She sucked the lining down to size 3

She sucked no living and she'll kill me

Necks are crooked and it's time to sing

Beeks wide open at the sound wings

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e:-----------------------|----------------------------|

B:-----------------------|----------------------------|

G:-----------------------|----------------------------|

D:-----------------------|----------------------------|x2

A:----0-----0-----0h1p0--|------0-----0-----0-----0---|

D:-0-----0-----0---------|---3-----3-----3-----3------|

ohohoho aie ohohoho aie

She kisses harder than me x2

 

I guess I'm not that hungry

Verse 2: (same as verse 1)

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Things are rivers flowing to the sea

Fish won't eat it but don't ask me

Angles looking make it hard to cry

People looking make it cool to die.

Chorus 2: same as chorus 1

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repeat "She kisses harder..{}...hungry" bit x2

Fade out intro.

Chords: (in drop-d)

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DADGBE

Bb x13331

F 3332xx

C x35553

D 000232

G 5554xx

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The One - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

Intro: (distorted)

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F G# F# x3 (2nd and 3rd time add sliding noises)

Verse: (soft accoustic)

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e:------------------------------|

B:------------------------------|

G:------------------------------| play this for

D:--7-----7-------5-----5-------| each line

A:--5-----4-------3-----2-------|

E:------------------------------|

I sleep the day away

Giving you all I can

Ready to breach the news

Dying to was my hair

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You're the one, you're the one

That grows the suuuuuuun

Say you love me, as you pull the trigger

Better today, rather than tomorrow D G A (stop)

Verse 2:

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Love is in the air

Hide it behind your blinds

Heaven is right up there

Leaving me here behind

Play chorus x2 (without the bit after "tomorrow..." for

both times)

Break: (uppy cheery beat) tat tat tat

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G //// B

Youdoudhou dooooo (<- yodelling stuff)

You should enjoy the weather

distort> G B

Sooooohohoohooon

You'll know

What you done

F G# F# x3

You'll hurt no one x3

Play verse 1 again (soft - stop slighlty after "my hair")

+chorus x2

Finish:

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slow down on "rather than tomorrow..." End.

Chords:

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F 133211

G# 466544

F# 244322

D 557775

A 577655

C 335553

E 022100

G 320033

B 224442

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One Hit Wonder - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

Intro: G E x4

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Verse 1:

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They call you the one-hit wonder

I could just hit you right, yeah right between

Yeah right between the eyes

Verse 2:

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If ever a girly wonder

Could ever be more, than just,

one thing, yeah more than one thing at

at ti-ihihime a ti-ihihime

More than one at a time

Verse 3: same progression as verse 1

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I'll give you my 4-leaf clover

For God only knows, that it's

the only, one, the only, one I'd mind

Verse 4: same progression as verse 2

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And you'll hear it over and over

Until it is built, right in,

Yeah right, into, your filthy,

little mi-ihihind, your mi-hihihind

yeah right into your...

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I I own the world

I bought the whole damn world

>From the maaaan who sold the world

A million-doller caddie worth

Verse 5: same prog as verse 1

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So could you just bend right over

To see how it feels, to be,

to see, just how, it feels, to be alive

Verse 6: same prog as verse 2

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And you'll get it over and over

Coz god only know, that is

The only one, the only one

I'd mi-hihihind, I'd mi-hihihind

the only one oh

End.

Chords:

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G 320033

E 022100

F 133211

Dm x00231

D5 x0023x

A 002220

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Sharks Can't Sleep - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

Intro/Verse: (clean guitar)

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e:----------------------------------0--0--0----|

B:----------3-----------------------0--0--0----|

G:------2-------------3---------4---1--1--1----|

D:---0-------------4---------5------2--2--2----|

A:----------------------------------2--2--2----|

E:--------------2---------3---------0--0--0----|

D F# G E (rest)

Verse 1:

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Saw a shark today

Ate a man and then, just swam away

But it wasn't OK

D F# G E (rest)

No it wasn't OK

Verse 2:

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Saw a snake today,

Ate and burned your steak and squirmed away

But it wasn't OK

D F# G Bb (distortion kicks in for G and Bb)

No it wasn't OK

Chorus: (distortion)

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No -ho, No -ho, No -ho, No-ho x2

But it wan't OK

D F# G E (rest)

No it wasn't OK

Verse 3: (same chord progression as verse 2)

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Met a star today

Looked like flesh and bone and tooth decay

But it wasn't OK

No it wan't OK

Chorus 2:

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Same as chorus 1 with:

No it wasn't OK x2

Break: (play x2)

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A A? A A? G F# G F#?

e:----------------------------------|

B:----------------------------------|

G:------6--6--6--6----4--4--4--4----|

D:------7--7--7--7----5--5--5--5----|

A:------7--6--7--6----5--4--5--4----|

E:------5--5--5--5----3--3--3--3----|

Wowowowo Wowowowo

A A? A A? G F# G F# A A? A A? G F# G F#

Nohowoah, Nohowoah, no, not I

A A? A A? G F# G F# F

Nohowoah, Nohowoah, not me

Verse 4: (play as verse 2)

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Ate a man today

Ate a man and then just walked away

But iwasn't OK

No it wasn't OK

End on CHORUS

Chords:

D x00232 or 557775

F# 244322

G 355433 or 320033

E 022100

Bb 688766 or 113331

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Bullday - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

Intro: (Fast, heavy distortion)

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G D B C x2

Verse 1: (G D B C for each line)

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You've got a ro-ocket

Inside your bullet head

I've seen you walking

Baaaahaaby

Your natural greyness

Has never done you wrong

You showed that sweet old

Laaahaaaady

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Who's got the bull down low owoahwoah

Who's got the bull down low

Who's got the bull down be-low

G D G (quick succession)

Verse 2: (like verse 1)

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You talk of genius

I feel an undertow

Which head of yours is

Dragging down?

One made of lettuce

Is smarter than you both

You fooled that man whole

Anyhow

Chorus x2

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Break:

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He'll bend you over, little red rover

Bend you right over, some Casanova

Go to your mama, little Chiwouaoua

Get back to your mama, little Chihuahua

Chorus x2

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End

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Every Breath - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

Verse 1:

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See you running and it's all over now

The devil's coming and he's showing us how

He's going down on the street, like, it's such a cool sight

The lizard king is here and where are you now?

Monkey Brain is here and he's showing us how

He's going down on a cool bike,

And I am loosing sight

Chorus 1:

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And every day is like the one before

Yeah it's like the one before

You get it right you'll breath no mooooore

Verse 2: (same prog as in verse 1)

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I saw my shadow on the blackest of nights

Sometimes I push me right out of the lights

So I'm down on the (get right?), and I am loosing

You're here to tempt me, and it's all looking new

To keep me from running just to try something new

I'm going down on the floor right, I am right behind

Chorus 2:

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Play chorus 1 with:

no more x3

Instrumental: (violins)

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F D x2

 

Chorsu 3:

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Play chorus 1 then chorus x2

end on "no more"

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30 Seconds - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

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e:---3--3---------------|----|-------|

B:---3--3---------------|----|-------|

G:---4--4---------------|-x3-|-------|

D:---5--5---------------|----|---5---|

A:---5--5---4--4--4h5p4-|----|---5---|

E:---3--3---------------|----|---3---|

Verse 1:

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For every stone, there's a rock waiting someone's

Head, hear it come and you'll wish you had two heads

30 seconds x2

Tell half your soul and you'll realise that you are

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G A7 riff

e:---------------------------------|

B:---------------------------------|

G:-----4---------------------------| x3

D:-----5----------5---5------------|

A:-----5----------4---4----4h5p4---|

E:-----3----------5---5------------|

Noohoa one

G A7 (riff)

Noohoa one x3

No one

Verse 2:

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For every star, there's another one that's fading

Fading away, hating every bit of light

30 seconds x2

One day the sun and the rest you're sending ants to

Chorus 2:

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No-hoa one x3

G (pause) A7 (riff)

No one

Out of my way

Four you know you're

Out of my way x3

Verse 3:

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For everyone, there's another one that's stronger

So, out you go, like the trash that you drug in

30 seconds x2

Paving the way, for the ones that made you feel like

Chorus 3:

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G A7 (riff)

No-hoa one x3

G (pause) A7 (riff)

No one

G A7 (riff)

Out of my way

Four you know you're

Out of my way x3

Chords: These are a bit weird

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A7 545xxx or 002020

C7 032310

G7 32300x or 353433

G 320033 or 355433

Bb7 656xxx or 113131

G#7 434xxx or 464544

F#7 212xxx or 242322

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The Real - by Tracy Bonham

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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet

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e:------------------------|--------------|

B:------------------------|--------------|

G:------------------------|--play-lots---|

D:------------------------|--------------|

A:----4---///-7---4-//--7-|--------------|

E:----5--////-8---5-//--8-|--------------|

Aaaaa Aaa a - Haaaa (etc...)

Verse 1:

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I know the sons are wrong, to wake their dad

You got, if anything, a bigger head

Most likely to perform, was who I knew

But now it's you that I have to know

Verse 2: (same progression as verse 1)

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Tell me who you know, has got away

Sweet little who you know, lives in L.A.

Most likely to conceive was who I knew

But now it's you that I have to know

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Only the real world

It's so unreal

A C F E (single strum)

Only the real is rea-he-eal

Verse 3:

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Pocket the business card, be on your way

Pocket the smiling face, and save the day

Most likely to perform, was who I knew

But noew it's you that I have to know

Chorus x2

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Play intro, and fade out....

Chords:

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A 002220

C 032010

F 133211

E 022100

G 320033

D x00232

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