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                               "Like Always"
                 (Larry Ramos - Bob Alcivar - Tony Ortega)

Intro [3/4]:

	E7#9 [N.C.]     G7 Ab7
	 /  /  /     /  /  /

Verse 1 [3/4]:

	A7              D7               G7          C7
	Stepping off a stone, while I'm walking all alone
	A7            D7        G7     C7
	Walking all alone, like always
	  F7       Bb7          Eb7           Ab7
	I got me a new car, it doesn't get me too far
	A7             D7        A7     D7
	I'm all out of gas, like always

Verse 2:

	Gotta pay the rent, but all my money's spent
	All my money's spent, like always
	I wonder where my pay went, missed another payment
	I'm all out of bread, like always

Chorus [3/4] (chords implied by vocal harmonies):

	F#m7  B13  F#m9          B13          F#m7  B13         F#m9  B13
	Girl,           let the world have my money,    I don't care
	Em7  A13  Em9          A13           C7       F7-5
	Girl,         make my troubles seem funny and small
	  Bm7-5       E7
	In no time at all

Bridge [4/4]:

	 A7                       D7
	Hey, girl...
	          I been down so long
	                              Yeah, why should it be

	G7                         C7
	      If I get to feeling high just thinking
	                          high just thinking
	Wrong if  I  get  high

	    A7                  D7
	Of you alone                 Can make up for the
	   you alone      you alone
	             Only you alone

	 G7                   C7
	Bad times           (unintelligible)
	           For the bad times and (unintelligible)

	       F7                      Bb7
	If you go it will be the same again
	                       Eb7
	I'll be down another friend
	                    Ab7
	Let me say it once again, don't you let it
	 A7            D7            A7
	Slip away like always (don't go)
	                     D7
	Don't slip away like always

[repeat chorus]

Verse 3:

	Things have got to move, I've been too long in this groove
	Too long in this groove, like always
	Things are getting better, ever since I met her
	Oh, oh - there she goes,   mmm-mmm

Coda:

	     A7     D7
	Like always
	A7    D7        A7      D7
	   Uh-huh, like always

	  A7            D7        [continue w/backing vocals to fade]
	(Slip away like always)

	[spoken: I don't know what to do about that girl
	        She just comes and goes and goes and goes...]


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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