Song: Tainted love
Artist: Soft Cell
Composer: Ed Cobb
Album: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
5th Mar 2017

CAPO: 3rd fret 
(Will then sound in the recorded key of Gm)

Emphasise the two beats on each Em,
and the bass notes of each chord

Chord names and fret positions are relative to
the capo position:

   = 022000       = x32010    = x02210
 = 322000    = 302210     = 022100

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[Intro]
         
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  /  |  /   / 

  
  /   / :|| [R

epeat]
    ^  ^

[Verse 1]
(        
Some - times, 

         
I    feel I've

    
 got  to ...ru

/     
n  a - way,
        
I've got  to  

      
 ...get a - wa

y,
            
From the pain 

            
you drive into

     
 the heart of 

me,
        
The love we   

       
share seems to

    
  go no - wher

e,
      
And   I've los

    
t my    light,
      
For  I  toss a

              
nd turn, I can

   
't sleep at ni

ght

[Chorus]
             
   Once I ran 

          
to you,(I ran!

) now I run fr

om you,

   This tainte

d love you've 

given,
  
I give you all

 a boy could g

ive you,
            
Take my tears,

              
 and that's no

         
t nearly all,
          
      Tainted 

          
love, (Oh, woh

    
 - oh, oh!)
        
Tainted love

  

[Verse 2]
       
Now I     know

        
 I've got  to 

       
  ...run a - w

ay,
        
I've got  to  

      
 ...get a - wa

y,
      
You  don't rea

             
lly want any m


ore from me,
        
To make things

 
 right,
        
You need  some

           
 - one ...to h

     
old you tight,
      
And  you think

         
 love is  to p

ray,
      
But  I'm sorry

          
, I don't pray

 that way

[Chorus]
             
   Once I ran 

          
to you,(I ran!

) now I run fr

om you,

   This tainte

d love you've 

given,
  
I give you all

 a boy could g

ive you,
            
Take my tears,

              
 and that's no

         
t nearly all,
          
      Tainted 

          
love, (Oh, woh

    
 - oh, oh!)
    
Tainted love

[Verse 3]
      
      Don't to

      
uch me,  pleas

e,
      
I can - not st

          
and the way yo

        
u tease------,
          
I  love you, t

          
hough you hurt

    
 me so,
      
Now  I'm gonna

         
 pack my thing

s and go

[Coda]
       
    Tainted lo

          
ve, (Oh, woh -

   
 oh, oh!)
         
Tainted love, 

        
(Oh, woh - oh,

 
 oh!)
         
Tainted love, 

        
(Oh, woh - oh,

 
 oh!)
         
Tainted love, 

        
(Oh, woh - oh,

 
 oh!)
          
Touch me, baby

          
, tainted love

      
------
              (Touch me, taint - ed love!)

          
Touch me, baby

           
, tainted   lo

/     
ve------
               (Touch me, taint - ed love!)

         
Tainted love, 

        
(Oh, woh - oh,

 
 oh!)
         
Tainted love, 

        
(Oh, woh - oh,

 
 oh!)
        
Tainted love, 

    
           tai

        
nted love-----

 
------!