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If You Want Me to Stay

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

Song

Sly and The Family Stone - If you Want ME to Stay

This is the main riff, it stays the same the whole way through the song with

different fills. You can work them out if you want, otherwise play this.

G|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D|-8-8---------------|---------------3-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|
A|-------------------|-------6-4-4-4---|-----------------|
E|-----6-6-6-6-6-6-5-|-4-4-4-----------|-----------------|
G|-----------------------|
D|-6-6-6-6-----10-10-9-9-|
A|---------8-8-----------|
E|-----------------------|

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