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How Long You Wanna Live Anyway

Stray Cats
Tab

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

Song

You Need The Words To See How This Fits In As Its pretty Complex:

Intro: All right cats! One! Two! Three! Four!

Gb5/G5 |||||| Gb5/G5 |||||| etc.

Verse 1:

Well it's (G5)no good to smoke and it's no good to drink

What the hell you're doing boy don't you never ever think?

Well (C5)you're killing yourself man and you're just a kid

So you (G5)better slow down or you’ll wish that you did

Well (D5)maybe I'll only last a (C5)year and a day, but

(G5)how long you wanna live, (G5) anyway? Gb5/G5 |||||| etc.

E---------------|
B---------------|
G---------------|
D-0-2-0-3-0-2-0-|
A---------------|
E---------------|

Verse 2: (chords as before put play G or C riff where appropriate)

G riff: C riff:

|-----------------|		|-----------------|
|-----------------|		|-----------------|
|-----------------|		|---------3-3-2---|
|---------3-3-2---|		|-----2-5-------5-|
|-----2-5-------5-|		|-3-3-------------|
|-3-3-------------|		|-----------------|

Well I just don't care and I just can't be bothered

Well I'm sick of taking crap from my mother and my father

Well I'm looking real cool my hair all greased

Well there ain't no way I'm gonna live like a priest

Well maybe I'll only last a year and a day, but how long you wanna live

anyway?

guitar solo

Verse 3:

Well you're growin’ old man and you ain't having no fun

Well I'm still young and I'm-a gettin’ me some

Well you can hide away and you can live like a monk

Well I'll be a low down dirty skunk

Well (D5)maybe I'll only last a (C5)year and a day,

(D5)Maybe I'll only last a (C5)year and a day

(D5)Maybe I'll only last a (C5)year and a day, but

(G5)Like, how long you wanna live (G5) anyway?

Gb5/G5 |||||| (3X)

G9

|-10-10-10-10\-|
|-10-10-10-10\-|
|-10-10-10-10\-|
|-9--9--9--9\--|
|-10-10-10-10\-|
|--------------|

Guitar solo:

|------3-3-----3-3------3-3------3-3------3-3-3-----3-----3--------------
|------3-3-----3-3------3-3------3-3------3-3-3-----3-----3--------------
|-5(b)-----5(b)-----5(b)-----5(b)-----5(b)------5(b)--5(b)--5(b-r)-3-5-3-
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------3-6-3-6-3------------3-----3-----------------
---5(b)-5(b)-5-3-5-3-5-3------------3-----3-----------------
-3-5(b)-5(b)-5-----------5(b-r)-3-----5/7---5(b)-5(b-r)-3---
----------------------------------5-----------------------5-

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-----------------------------3-----5---5-5-------3-6-6(b)-
---5(b)-5(b)-5(b)-5(b)-3-5-3-3-5/7---7-----7-3/5---5-5(b)-
-3-5(b)-5(b)-5(b)-5(b)-3-5-3------------------------------

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-3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3---------------|
-------3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3(p)0---0-2-0-3-0-2-0-|
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