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              If You Want Me To Stay - Sly And The Family Stone
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Arranged by: Funkynic

Tabbed by: Hostile Apostle

Please send suggestions and corrections to Mareed129@aol.com

Tuning: Standard

Note: I got the idea to write this tab from a video on youtube which can be
viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqlIce56NJw .You don't need to 
watch the video but it may help some people with the timing.

Additional note: I don't use the same exact chords in the video.

         
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B|--7----5----
G|--7----5----
D|--7----5----
A|--x----x----
E|--7----5----

       
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5----3----2---
5----4----3---
4----3----2---
5----5----x---
-----3----2---

   
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-10---9----|
-9----8----|
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[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

       
If you want me

 to stay
           
I'll be around

 
 today
            
To be availabl

             
e for you to s

#
ee
             
I'm about to g


o
           
And then you'l

  
l know
            
For me to stay

              
 here I've got

         
 to be me

             
You'll never b


e in doubt
              
That's what it

     
's all about
            
You can't take

              
 me for grante

      
d and smile
          
Count the days

 I'm gone
           
Forget reachin

        
g me by phone
            
Because I prom

              
ise I'll be go

            
ne for a while


[Chorus]

         
When you see m

e again
            
I hope that yo

      
u have been
            
The kind of pe

              
rson that you 

           
really are now


[Verse 2]

           
You got to get

 it straight
            
How could I ev

     
er be late
              
When you're my

            
 woman takin' 

         
up my time

              
How could you 


ever allow
           
I guess I wond

   
er how
              
How could you 

            
get out of poc

        
ket for fun
            
When you know 

              
that you're ne

              
ver number two
            
Number one gon

             
na be number o

  
ne


I'll be good
      
I wish I could
            
Get this messa

              
ge over to you

 
 now


[Chorus]

         
When you see m

e again
            
I hope that yo

      
u have been
            
The kind of pe

              
rson you reall

      
y are now

I'll be so goo

d
      
I wish I could
            
Get the messag

              
e over to you 

  
now