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Sway

Bic Runga
Tab
4.9(17)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Intro

e|------------------|
B|------------------|
G|----2-1-2---2-1-2-|
D|--0-------2-------|
A|------------------|
E|------------------|

Verse

e|--------4------2----2-----|
B|--2-----5------3----3-----|
G|--2-----6------2----2-----|
D|--2-----6------0----0-----|
A|--0-----4-----------------|
E|--------------------------|

"Don't stray, don't ever go away. I should be much too smart

for this you know it gets the better of me"

e|--------4------2----0-----|
B|--2-----5------3----0-----|
G|--2-----6------2----1-----|
D|--2-----6------0----2-----|
A|--0-----4-----------2-----|
E|--------------------0-----|

"Sometimes, when you and I collide I fall into an ocean of you,

pull me out in time"

e|--2-----4------2----0-----|
B|--2-----5------3----0-----|
G|--2-----6------2----1-----|
D|--4-----6------0----2-----|
A|--4-----4-----------2-----|
E|--2-----------------0-----|

"Don't let me drown, let me down I saw it's all because of you"

e|--------4------2----2-----|
B|--2-----5------3----3-----|
G|--2-----6------2----2-----|
D|--2-----6------0----0-----|
A|--0-----4-----------------|
E|--------------------------|

"And here i go, losing my control. I'm practicing your name so

I can say is to your face"

e|--------4------2----0-----|
B|--2-----5------3----0-----|
G|--2-----6------2----1-----|
D|--2-----6------0----2-----|
A|--0-----4-----------2-----|
E|--------------------0-----|

"It doesn't seem right, to look you in the eye, Let all the

things you mean to me come tumbling out my mout"

e|--2-----4------2----0-----|
B|--2-----5------3----0-----|
G|--2-----6------2----1-----|
D|--4-----6------0----2-----|
A|--4-----4-----------2-----|
E|--2-----------------0-----|

"Indeed it's time to tell you why I say it's infinatly true"

Chorus

e|-------0----2----4---|
B|--1----0----2----5---|
G|--1----1----2----6---|
D|--1----2----4----6---|
A|--0----2----4----5---|
E|-------0----2--------|

"Say you'll stay, don't come and goe Like you do"

"Sway my way, yeah I need to know All about you"

Verse

e|--------4------2----2-----|
B|--2-----5------3----3-----|
G|--2-----6------2----2-----|
D|--2-----6------0----0-----|
A|--0-----4-----------------|
E|--------------------------|

"And there's no cure, and no way to be sure Why everything's

turned inside out Instilling so much doubt"

e|--------4------2----0-----|
B|--2-----5------3----0-----|
G|--2-----6------2----1-----|
D|--2-----6------0----2-----|
A|--0-----4-----------2-----|
E|--------------------0-----|

"It makes me so tired I feel so uninspired. My head is

battling with my heart, my logic has been torn apart"

e|--2-----4------2----0-----|
B|--2-----5------3----0-----|
G|--2-----6------2----1-----|
D|--4-----6------0----2-----|
A|--4-----4-----------2-----|
E|--2-----------------0-----|

"And now it all turns sour, come sweeten every after noon"

[Chorus] (x2)

e|-------0----2----4---|
B|--1----0----2----5---|
G|--1----1----2----6---|
D|--1----2----4----6---|
A|--0----2----4----5---|
E|-------0----2--------|

"Say you'll stay, don't come and goe Like you do"

"Sway my way, yeah I need to know All about you"

Bridge

e------------------|
B------------------|
G----2-1-2---2-1-2-|
D--0-------2-------|
A------------------|
E------------------|

"It's all because of you"

"It's all because of you"

e|--2-----4------2----0-----|
B|--2-----5------3----0-----|
G|--2-----6------2----1-----|
D|--4-----6------0----2-----|
A|--4-----4-----------2-----|
E|--2-----------------0-----|

"And now it all turns sour, come sweeten every after noon"

"It's time to tell you why, I say it's infinatly ture"

[Chorus] (x2)

e|-------0----2----4---|
B|--1----0----2----5---|
G|--1----1----2----6---|
D|--1----2----4----6---|
A|--0----2----4----5---|
E|-------0----2--------|

"Say you'll stay, don't come and goe Like you do"

"Sway my way, yeah I need to know All about you"

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