You Could Have Been With Me
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
Released 1981
Tab By: Dave Mairs
[Intro]
F Bb F Bb
F Bb F Bb
[Verse 1]
F Bb F Bb
You're the seventh son of the seventh son.
F Bb F Bb
Maybe that's why you're such a strange and special one.
F Bb F Bb
You can't even seem to love yourself,
F Bb F Bb
And with a few exceptions, not anybody else.
F Bb F
You can lead a horse to water,
Bb
but you cannot make him drink.
F Bb F
You can give a man your whole heart and soul,
Bb
but you cannot make him think.
[Chorus]
Am Bb C
You could have been with me,
Am Bb C
instead of alone and lonely.
[Bridge]
F Bb F Bb
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey Yeah
F Bb F Bb
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey Yeah
[Verse 2]
F Bb
You can tell him the day of departure,
F Bb
exactly the place and the time.
F Bb F Bb
He might really wanna be there, but he misses every time.
F Bb
Is he a man or a paper tiger?
F Bb
When you need him, will he run or stand beside you?
[Chorus]
Am Bb C
You could have been with me,
Am Bb C
instead of alone and lonely.
Am Bb C
You could have been with me,
Am Bb C
instead of alone and lonely.
[Bridge]
F Bb F Bb
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey Yeah
F Bb F Bb
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey Yeah
[Chorus]
Am Bb C
You could have been with me,
Am Bb C
instead of alone and lonely.
F Bb C
You could have been with me,
F Bb C
instead of alone and lonely.
Am Bb C
You could have been with me,
Am Bb C
instead of alone and lonely.
F Bb C
You could have been with me,
F Bb C
instead of alone and lonely.
[Fades Out]
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