• Song:

    Stretch Out And Wait

  • Artist:

    The Smiths

  • Album:

    Same Day Again (Live in...

I couldn't find any tabs for this song, so I decided to do it myself. I think the
song is supposed to be played in open E tuning, but I tabbed it out in E standard.




E5    B5        A5            B5   
      On the high-rise estate 
      Ab5                         A5
      What's at the back of your mind ? 
                 E5         B5
      Oh, on a three-day debate
            A5           B5
      On a high-rise estate
      Ab5                         A5 
      What's at the back of your mind ?

           E5         B5        A5           B5
      Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
                Ab5                 A5
      It's the Eskimo blood in my veins 
            E5             B5
      Amid concrete and clay 
           A5         B5
      And general decay 
       Ab5                      A5
      Nature must still find a way 

            E5     B5      A5             B5
      So ignore all the codes of the day 
                Ab5                  A5 
      Let your juvenile influences sway 
       E5            B5
      This way and that way and
       A5            B5
      This way and that way 
      Ab5              A5
      God, how sex implores you 
         F#5
      To let yourself lose yourself


      C#5              E5
      Stretch out and wait 
      C#5              E5
      Stretch out and wait 
C#5   B5                   A5         B5
      Let your puny body lie down, lie down 
      A5                  B5
      As we lie, you say 
            C#5           
      As we lie, you say 
      E5
      Stretch out and ... 
      C#5              E5 
      Stretch out and wait 
      C#5              E5
      Stretch out and wait 
      B5                   A5         B5
      Let your puny body lie down, lie down
      A5                  B5
      As we lie, you say
                C#5              F#5
      Will the world end in the night time ?
                  A5         B5 
      (I really don't know) 
                C#5              F#5 
      Or will the world end in the day time ?
                  A5         B5
      (I really don't know) 
                C#5              F#5
      And is there any point ever having children ?
                  A5         B5
      Oh, I don't know
             F#5                A5            B5
      What I do know is we're here and it's Now

            
              E5               B5
      So ... stretch out and wait 
              A5        B5
      Stretch out and wait 
               Ab5                        A5 
      There is no debate, no debate, no debate 
      E5            B5           A5         B5 
      How can you consciously contemplate 
                 Ab5                A5
      When there's no debate, no debate ? 
                       E5            B5     
      Stretch out and wait 
C#5   B5               Ab5           A5
      Stretch out and wait 
                       E5            B5
      Stretch out and wait 
       E5          B5
      Wait 
       E5          B5
      Wait 
       E5          B5
      Wait
       E5          B5         B5
      Wait 

      C#5         F#5          A5
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