Five Long Years

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From: mklem@vax2.winona.msus.edu

Subject: TAB: Five Long Years - Buddy Guy

This was one of my favorite songs off of Buddy Guy's album "Damn

Right I got the Blues." It's an all time Buddy Guy classic so here is

Five Long Years.

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If you've

section I

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ever been mistreated you know just what I'm talking about

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If you've

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ever been mistreated. You know just what I'm talking about

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I work five long years for one woman

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and she had the nerve to kick me out.

Section II:

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I gotta job at a steel mill trucking steel just like a slave.

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five long years of fright I'm running straight home with all of my pay.

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Mistreated! You know just what I'm talking about.

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I work

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five long years for one woman and she had the nerve.

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to kick me out. Have you

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out

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Go to Section I =======|

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And she hD the nerve to put me out.

Legend

/ Slide to indicated fret

b bend

h hammer on

p pull off

"Buddy Guy is by far, and without doubt, the best guitar player alive. . ."

------Eric Clapton------