Ill Stand By You - Pretenders

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Artist: The Pretenders
Song: I'll stand by you
Tab: Nick Lyons (nlyons83@hotmail.com) and Mike Danberg (msd10@yahoo.com)
This song has a lot of piano in it. I'll try to tab it as best I can hopefully it will sound close enough.

[Intro]
      

[Verse]
            
Oh, why look s

 (   
o sad
             
Tears are in y

our eyes
              
Come on and co

       -  (  
me to me now
             
Don't be asham

      
ed to cry
              
Let me see you

  
 through
              
Cause i've see

          - 
n the darkside

 too

[Bridge]
             
When the night

       
 falls on you
             
Don't know wha

  
t to do
             
Nothing you co

nfess
        
Can make me lo

ve you less

[Chorus]
              
I'll stand by 

             
you, I'll stan

       
d by you
              
Won't let nobo

          
dy hurt you
              
I'll stand by 

  
you

[Verse]
             
So if you're m

       
ad get mad
              
Don't hold it 

     
all inside
              
Come on and ta

       - 
lk to me now
             
Hey what you g

      
ot to hide
             
I get angry to

o
             
Well I'm alive

- 
 like you

[Bridge]
            
When you're st

              
anding at the 

    
crossroads
            
Don't know whi

          
ch path to cho

ose
              
Let me come al


ong
              
Cause even if 

  
you're wrong

[Chorus] (same)

[Solo] (over v
(  
e|------------
B|-7-5-5-7-5-8
G|------------
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

erse riff)
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P7-5-7-5--7-5-
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5-7-5-8P7-5-7-
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5-----------7P
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5---|
--7-|
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[Bridge]
             
And when when 

          
the night fall

s on you baby
        
You're feeling

 all alone
        
Won't on your 

own

chorus repeats over and over first 3 then 4 over and over til end.
At 3:10 the riff playing til the end of the song is just the solo

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