I Do It For Your Love

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Words and Music by Paul Simon

As performed by Paul Simon on his TV Special (1977)

Original recording from 'Still Crazy After All These Years'

Tabbed and transcribed by Rich Kent r.p.kent@dur.ac.uk

He plays this song fingerpicked on an electric... Watch out for those

wierd barre chords!

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h h h h h h h

Verse 1

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We were married on a rainy day The sky was yellow and the

grass was grey

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We signed the papers and we.. I do it for your love

drove away

Verse 2

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The rooms were musty and all that winter we shared a cold

the pipes were old

CV CVI CIV

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Drank all the orange juice.. I do it for your love

that we could hold

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CIV CIV CIV CII

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Found a rug in an old junk shop, brought it home to you

CI CI CII CI

Bbm Adim7 Cm7-5 B7 Bb7

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Along the way the colours ran the orange bled the blue

Harmonica Solo (play verse chords up to Em

for twice their original duration),

the pattern is more of a strummed feel, then fingerpick the Bbdim7 and

carry on from there into the chorus again

Verse 3

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The sting of reason the splash of tears. The northern and the

southern hemispheres.

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Love emerges and it disappears.. I do it for your love

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I do it for your love

Tha Gmaj7 is Paul just mucking about after he finishes on the G

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* Rich Kent; email r.p.kent@dur.ac.uk ; http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d213ga *

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