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                Stayin' Alive – The Bee Gees
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Written by: Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
From: “Saturday Night Fever - The Original Movie Sound Track” (1977)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

The recording is somewhere between F and F#.

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capo: 1st fret
play: Em
key: Fm

For chords in original key transpose +1 (and "use flats").


Alternative

tuning: D-A-D-G-B-e (Drop-D)
transpose: -2
capo: 3rd fret
Play: Dm
key: Fm

Dm    0-0-0-2-
C     x-3-2-0-
G     5-x-0-0-
Am7   x-0-5-5-

3-1
1-0
0-3
5-5

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[LICK] no capo
 [Fm(7)
  1 + 2 + 3 + 
e|------------
B|------------
G|------------
D|---6--------
A|6h8---6-----
E|----------8-

4 +  1 + 2 + 3
----|---------
----|---------
----|---------
----|---------
---6|---6-----
6h8-|6h8---6h8

 + 4 +  1 + 2 
-------|------
-------|------
-------|------
----6--|---6--
-6-8---|6h8---
-------|------

+ 3 + 4 +  1 +
----------|---
----------|---
----------|---
----------|---
6--------6|---
----8-6h8-|6h8

 2 + 3 + 4 +
-------------|
-------------|
-------------|
----------6--|
6------6-8---|
---6h8-------|

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
              
Well, you can 


tell by the wa

y I use my wal

k
             
I'm a woman's 

        
man, no time t

o talk

Music loud and

 women warm
             
I've been kick

              
ed around sinc

  
e I was born

[Pre-Chorus]
             
But now it's a

ll right, that

's okay

You may look t

he other way

We can try to 

understand
    
The New York T

imes' effect o

n man

[Chorus]

Whether you're

 a brother or 

whether you're

 a mother
       
You're stayin'

 alive, stayin

' alive

Feel the city 

breakin' and e

verybody shaki

n'
      
I'm a-stayin' 

alive, stayin'

 alive
            
Ah, ah, ah, ah

  
, stayin' aliv

e, stayin' ali

ve
            
Ah, ah, ah, ah

           [
, stayin' ali-

     ] 
i-i-i --- ive
                (break)
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Oh, when you w

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alk

[Verse 2]
          
Well, now I ge

t low and I ge

t high
             
And if I can't

              
 get either, I

 
 really try
        
Got the wings 

of heaven on m

y shoes
             
I'm a dancin' 

           
man, and I jus

t can't lose

[Pre-Chorus]
              
You know, it's

 
 all right, it

's okay
     
I'll live to s

ee another day

We can try to 

understand
    
The New York T

imes' effect o

n man

[Chorus]

Whether you're

 a brother or 

whether you're

 a mother
       
You're stayin'

 alive, stayin

' alive

Feel the city 

breakin' and e

verybody shaki

n'
      
I'm a-stayin' 

alive, stayin'

 alive
            
Ah, ah, ah, ah

  
, stayin' aliv

e, stayin' ali

ve
            
Ah, ah, ah, ah

           [
, stayin' ali-

     ] 
i-i-i --- ive
                (break)
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Oooooh

 

[Middle 8]

 Life goin' no

where, somebod

y help me
              
Somebody help 

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me, yeah
             
 Life goin' no

      
where, somebod

y help me, yea

h
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   I'm stayin'

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 alive

[Verse 3]
          
Well, you can 

tell by the wa

y I use my wal

k
             
I'm a woman's 

        
man, no time t

o talk

Music loud and

 women warm
             
I've been kick

              
ed around sinc

  
e I was born

[Pre-Chorus]
             
But now it's a

ll right, that

's okay

You may look t

he other way

We can try to 

understand
    
The New York T

imes' effect o

n man

[Chorus]

Whether you're

 a brother or 

whether you're

 a mother
       
You're stayin'

 alive, stayin

' alive

Feel the city 

breakin' and e

verybody shaki

n'
      
I'm a-stayin' 

alive, stayin'

 alive
            
Ah, ah, ah, ah

  
, stayin' aliv

e, stayin' ali

ve
            
Ah, ah, ah, ah

           [
, stayin' ali-

     ] 
i-i-i --- ive
                (break)
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Yeah

 | 

[Outro]
= Middle 8

 Life goin' no

where, somebod

y help me
              
Somebody help 

     |  | % | 
me, yeah
             
 Life goin' no

              
where, somebod

              
y help me, yea


h
            | 
I'm stayin' al

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i-i-i-i-ive

(repeat and fade)