I Do It For Your Love - Paul Simon
Tuning: , E A D G B E
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:44:14 +0100 (BST)
From: R P Kent <R.P.Kent@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: TAB: I do it for your Love by Paul Simon
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!
Intro
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E(no 3rd)(ad
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Ebdim7 Gbdi
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m7 Em
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Verse 1
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E(no 3rd)(ad
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We wer
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e married on a
A7
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rainy day
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The sky was y
grass was gre
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ellow and the
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Ebdim7 Gbdi
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We signed
drove away
m7 Em
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the papers and
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Bbdi
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we.. I do
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it for your
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love
Verse 2
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E(no 3rd)(ad
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The rooms
the pipes
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were musty and all that winter we shared a cold
were old
Ebdim7 Gbdi
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Drank all
that we co
CV CVI CIV
m7 Em Bbdim7 Eb7 Ab Ab+
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the orange juice.. I do it for your love
uld hold
Chorus
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Found
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a rug in an ol
CIV
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d junk shop, b
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rought it home
CII
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to you
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Along the
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way the colou
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rs ran the ora
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nge bled the b
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lue
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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E(no 3rd)(ad
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The st
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ing of reason
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the splash of
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tears. The
sout
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northern and t
hern hemispher
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he
es.
Ebdim7 Gbdi
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Love emerg
m7 Em
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es and it disa
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ppears.. I d
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o it for yo
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ur love
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I do it for
CIII
G Gmaj7
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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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