Always On Your Side by Sting
Sting / Sheryl Crow
Always on your side
=> Bass tab
Tuning : E A D G
Tempo : 92 bpm
Intro: Bb/F F Bb/F F (piano)
Verse1: 00:06 (Sheryl Crow)
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A|-1~-------||-------8~-||-8-7-5~---||-5~-------|-
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Bb/F F Bb/F F
My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away
Dm Dm/C G/B
But ev'ry now and then you come to mind
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A|-1~-------||-5~-------|-
E|-------1~-||-------1--|-
Bb F Dm G7
Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game
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A|---1------|-3--------||----------|-
E|----------|-------1--||---1------|-
Bb C Dm Dm/C
But when your name was called, you found a place to hide
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A|---1------|-3--------|----------||-1~-0-----|-
E|----------|-----3-1--|---1------||-----1----|-
Bb C Bb/F F Bb/F F
When you knew that I was always on your side
Verse2: 00:44 (Sting)
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A|-1~-0-----|-1~-0-----||-8-7--5~--|-7-8--5~--|-8-7------|-
E|-----1--1-|-----1--1-||----------|----------|------3~-3|-
Bb/F F Bb/F F
Well everything was easy then, so sweet and innocent
Dm Dm/C G/B
my demons and my angels reappeared
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E|-----1--1-||---5--3-1-|-
Bb F Dm G7
Leavin' only traces of the man you thought I'd be
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A|---1~-----|-3--------||----------|-
E|----------|------3-1-||-----1----|-
Bb C Dm Dm/C
Too afraid to hear the words I'd always feared
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Bb C Bb/F F Bb/F F
Leavin' you with only questions all these years
Chorus1: 01:22
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A|-5~--5--|-04-04--|-3---3-3|----1-01-|-
E|----5---|-------5|----3---|-3-------|-
Dm A7/C#
Now is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear
F/C G
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
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A|1--1----|-/6--6--|-
E|-1--1--1|----6---|-
Bb Eb
Or are you left to wander, all alone, eternally
Bridge1: 01:43
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A|-----0--|-1------|-1---11-||---0~---|-
E|-3------|----1---|--------||--------|-
Gm F/A Bb
This isn't how it's really meant to be
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A|-----0--|-1------|-3---33-||--1--3~-|-
E|-3------|----1---|--------||--------|-
F/A Gm F/A Csus C
No it isn't how it's really meant to be
Verse3: 01:57
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A|-----8--8-|-----8--8-||-8-7--5~--|-7-8--5~--|-8-7------|-
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Bb F Bb/F F
Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear,
Dm Dm/C G/B
How to pull it close and make it stay
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A|-1~-0-----||-5--------|-
E|-----1--1-||---5--3-1-|-
Bb F Dm G7
If butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away
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Bb C Dm Dm/C
And I'm left to carry on and wonder why
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A|---1~---|-3------|--------||-1~-0---|-
E|--------|----3-1-|---3-1--||------1-|-
Bb C Bb/F F Bb/F F
Even through it all, I'm always on your side
Chorus2: 02:34
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A|-5~--5--|-04-04--|-3---3-3|----1-01-|-
E|----5---|-------5|----3---|-3-------|-
Dm A7/C#
But is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear
F/C G
Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear
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D|--------|--------|-
A|-1---1--|-/6--6--|-
E|----1--1|----6---|-
Bb Eb
Or are you left to wander, all alone, eternally
Bridge2: 02:54
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A|-----0--|-1------|-1---11-||---0~---|-
E|-3------|----1---|--------||--------|-
Gm F/A Bb
This isn't how it's really meant to be
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A|-----0--|-1------|-3---33-||--1--3~-|-
E|-3------|----1---|--------||--------|-
F/A Gm F/A Csus C
No it isn't how it's really meant to be
Verse4:03:08
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D|-8~-7-----|-8~-7-----||----------|----------|----------|-
A|-----8--8-|-----8--8-||-8-7--5~--|-7-8--5~--|-8-7------|-
E|----------|----------||----------|----------|------3~-3|-
Bb F Bb/F F
Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear,
Dm Dm/C G/B
How to pull it close and make it stay
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D|----------||----------|-
A|-1~-0-----||-5--------|-
E|-----1--1-||---5--3-1-|-
Bb F Dm G7
If butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away
Bb C Dm Dm/C
Leavin' me to carry on and wonder why
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A|---1~-----|-3--------||----------|-
E|----------|------3-1-||-----1~---|-
Bb C Bb/F F Bb/F F
Even through it all, I'm always on your side
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A|---1~-----|---3~-----|---5~-----||----------|-
E|----------|----------|----------||-3~----1~-|-
Bb C Dm Dm/C
Was it you that kept me wondering through this life
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A|---1~---|-3------|--------||-1~-0---|-
E|--------|----3-1-|---3-1--||------1-|-
Bb C Bb/F F
When you know that I was always on your side
Outro: 03:49
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D|--------||---------|--------|---3----|---------|--------|--------|-
A|-1~-0---||-1-----3-|---6----|--------|---1-----|-1----0-|--------|-
E|------1-||---------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--1~~~--|-
Bb/F F Bb C Eb Bb/D F
End: 04:12
CHORDS:
Bb/F 1x333x
F 133211
Dm xx0231
Dm/C x3x231
G/B x20033
G7 320001
C x32010
A7/C# x42223
F/C x33211
G 320033
Eb xx1343
Gm 355333
F/A x03211
Csus x3556x
Bb/D xx0331
Index
| / slide up
| slide down
| h hammer-on
| g Gost note
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
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