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You Could Have Been a Lady

April Wine
Tab
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Song

April Wine, You Could Have Been a Lady.

Tabbed by Tara, tmcleod@hotmail.com.

This song consists of two guitars. One guitar plays the same thing

throughout the whole song.

The intro is :

D C G D

D C

You could have been alright You could have been here tonight

G D

You could have been sweet as wine You could have been a lady

That's it for the whole song

The other guitar plays: 8 times for the intro and throughout the chorus (You could have...)

It's played choppy

e|------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------|
D|-----------3--5---3----0h3-0--------------|
A|---3h5------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------|

This is played after the chorus

e|--12b14---12b14--12---12b14--10--12b14-----5s14------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

The second time that part is played it's the same just start it with:

e|---------------10------|
B|--10h12----------------|
G|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|

and then the rest

This part is played for the verse:

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------5--5-----------5----3------------------------------5---5-----|
E|---3h5----------3h5-------------------------------3h5------------------|

After the 3rd time in the chorus it breaks to Na Na Na's with clapping and a tamborine.

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