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Saddest Song

The Ataris
Tab
★3.6(3)

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

Song

-----4-5-4 0---2-0----4-5-4-0---7-5----2-4-5--9-10-9-5---7-5----------|
-------------2----------------2------------------------7-----0-2-3----|
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intro piano part

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--2-----------7-------------------------------------------------------|
--2---4---2---7-------------------------------------------------------|
--0---4---2---5-------------------------------------------------------|
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A5 F#5 E5 D5 intro guitar part

VERSE 1:

A5 F#5 E#5 D5

Only two more days until your birthday yesterday was mine.

A5 F#5 E5

You'll be turning five I know what it's like growing up

D5

Without your father in your life

PRE CHORUS:

F#5 E5 A5 D5

so I pretend I'm doing all I can

F#5 E5 D5

and I hope someday you'll find it in your heart

F#5 E5 A5 D5

to understand why I'm not around

F#5 E5 D5

and forgive me for not being in your life

CHORUS:

A5 F#5

I remember waiting for you to come remember waiting for you to call

E5 D5

remember waiting there to find nothing at all

A5 F#5

I remember waiting for you to come remember waiting for you to call

E5 D5

Waiting there to fin nothing at all.

A5 F#5 E5 D5 A5

guitar part

-----4-5-4 0---2-0----4-5-4-0---7-5----2-4-5--9-10-9-5---7-5-------|
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piano part

there is also another little solo that sounds like a clarinet and here is how it goes.

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--5-3-2---5-3-2-0---3-2--------------------------------------------|
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Verse 2:

A5 F#5 E5

Maybe someday you'll really get to know me

D5 A5

Not just from letters read to you

F#5 E5

I pray I get the chance to make it up to you

D5

We've got a lot of catching up to do.

PRE CHORUS

CHORUS

CHORUS

Comments

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