Goo Goo Dolls — Slide Acoustic Tab
Best song ever. Can't get much better than this. This isn't actually the real way to
play it since the Goo Goo Dolls use all that alternate tuning, but it's close enough.
This is the standard tuning version.
Only 4 chords used:
Em7 022033
Dsus2 000233
Cadd9 032033
G 320033
Capo 1st fret:
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Em7 Dsus2
Could you whisper in my ear
Cadd9
The things you wanna feel
I'll give you anything to feel it coming.
Em7 Dsus4
Do you wake up on your own,
Cadd9
Wonder where you are
Live with all your faults?
Cadd9
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I wanna wake up where you are
Cadd9
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I won't say anything at all,
Dsus2
So why don't you slide?
play these chords: Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, Dsus2
Em7 Dsus2
Don't you love the life you killed?
Cadd9
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your Ma disowned you.
Em7 Dsus2
I don't suppose I'll ever know
Cadd9
What it means to be a man
It's something I can't change
I'll live around it...
I wanna wake up where you are
Cadd9
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I won't say anything at all
Dsus2
So why don't you slide?
Play these: Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, Dsus2
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Cadd9 G Dsus2
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Em7 Dsus2
Oh May, put your arms around me
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful
Em7 Dsus2 Cadd9 (leading into the bridge)
Oh May, you wanna get married, or run away?
Bridge: Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, Cadd9, G, Dsus2
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Cadd9 G Dsus2
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
Em7 Dsus2
Oh May, put your arms around me
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful
Em7 Dsus2 Cadd9, G, Cadd9 (leads into riff)
Oh May, you wanna get married, or run away?
Dsus2
I wanna wake up where you are...
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
And I'll do anything you ever dream to be complete
Cadd9 G Dsus2
Little pieces of the nothing that fall...
Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Why don't you slide between them sheets of all those beds you never knew
Cadd9 G Em7 Dsus2
Just slide up to my room, just slide up to my room
And I will run away, run away run away...
Outro:
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