• Song:

    Backstage

  • Artist:

    Gene Pitney

  • Album:

    22 Greatest Hits

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                        "Backstage (I'm Lonely)"
                          (Ainsfield - Denson)

Intro:

	(drum roll)

	(horns:)

	Eb (x43121@3)            Ab/Eb
	/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

	(band enters):

	Eb (x43121@3)/ / / /  / / / /

Verse 1:

	(electric guitar plays only those chords tagged with *)

	Ebsus4*     Eb (x43121@3)  Ebsus4*       Eb (x43121@3)Athousand (x02220@1)hands    applaud tonight
	Fsus4*     Fm (133111@1)  Fsus4*             Fm (133111@1)I sing my songs    my star shines bright
	Gsus4*      Gm (355333@1)   Ab*
	I stop and smile   I take my bow
	Bb7sus4*
	I leave the stage and then somehow

Chorus 1:

	     Eb (x43121@3)              Cm (x3101x@1)Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry
	Ab (xx1114@1)                       Bb[N.C.] (x1333x@1)	You've gone away and each night I seem to die alittle (x02210@1)
Verse 2:

	Out on that stage    I play the star
	I'm famous now   I've come so far
	Afamous (x02220@1)fool   I let love go
	I didn't know I'd miss you so

Chorus 2:

	     Eb (x43121@3)              Cm (x3101x@1)Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry
	Ab (xx1114@1)                   Bb (x1333x@1)          (Eb)
	Hating myself since I let you say goodbye

	Eb (x43121@3)     Cm (x3101x@1)     Ab (xx1114@1)     Bb (x1333x@1)/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

Bridge:

	Db[N.C.] (x43121@1)	Every night adifferent (x02210@1)room
	Bb[N.C.] (x1333x@1)	Every night adifferent (x02210@1)club
	Eb (x43121@3)                        Cm (x3101x@1)And yet I'm lonely all the time
	Ab[N.C.] (xx1114@1)	When I sign my autograph
	Gb[N.C.] (244322@1)	When I hold an interview
	Ab (xx1114@1)                     Bb (x1333x@1)Can't get you out of my mind

Verse 3:

	Come back my love   come back to me
	I need you now   so desperately
	What good is fame   it's just agame (x02210@1)	I'd give it all to be the same

Chorus 3/Coda:

	     Eb (x43121@3)              Cm (x3101x@1)Backstage I wait now, hoping I'll see
	Ab (xx1114@1)                       Bb (x1333x@1)               Cm (x3101x@1)Your smiling face waiting there backstage for me
	      Ab (xx1114@1)                              Bb (x1333x@1)Your smiling face waiting backstage for me
	     Eb (x43121@3) Eb7/Db  Ab/C  Bb (x1333x@1)Backstage
	     Eb (x43121@3) Eb7/Db  Ab/C  Bb (x1333x@1) Ebsus4  Eb (x43121@3)Backstage


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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