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From: David.Mays@merrick.com
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:45:51 -0700
Subject: CRD b/bo_deans/if_i_could_hold_you_tonight

     STILL THE NIGHT
     The BoDeans
     (submitted by david.mays@merrick.com)

     1=voice #1
     2=voice #2
     &=both voices

     INTRO:     G       G       C       D       (twice)

     CHORUS:
                  G
     1 If I could hold you tonight
               C         D
     2 I might never let go
                  G
     1 If I could hold you tonight
               C         D
     2 I might never let go
                  G
     1 If I could hold you tonight
         C               D          G C D
     & I might never, no never, let go

     REPEAT CHORUS

     VERSE 1:
       G                           C                D
     2 I like the way you dance, I like the way you paint your lips
     2 If I had a chance to        be with you, I   would not slip
     2 So hey what do you say, you see a thing or   two in me?  Then
     2 let's be on our way, we don't
       C             D
       need no other company

                 1 If I could [into chorus]

     VERSE 2:
       G                                C                  D
     2 We won't need no wine, and       we won't need no   other stuff
     2 Cause we'll be doing fine just   holding close and  tasting love
     2 And when the night it ends we'll close the curtains way up tight
     2 Then we'll just pretend, that it
       C                       D
     2 isn't day but still the night

                         1 If I could [into chorus]

     MIDDLE
       C                      G
     & There's a fire burning deep down in your eyes
       C                   D
     & It's got me almost  hypnotized

     VERSE 3:
     [first two lines = Verse 1, next two lines = Verse 2]

     CHORUS