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-Alibi (rough version)+<code> 
 +Alibi (album version from Babylon Springs)
  
  
-Tabbed by Steve Russell sfrussell@gmail.com+E Am B (x2)
  
 +E
 +I got off work just past 11
 +C#m
 +Laid one finger to the breeze
 +A
 +You can almost taste the action
 +F#m                  B
 +On nights like these
  
-Verses: E C#m A F# A +E 
-Chorus bit: E A7+Trees were bending in the wind 
 +C#m 
 +You were 40 miles away 
 +    A 
 +And I was headed your direction 
 +F#m                      B                      (E) 
 +I'd been waiting all day, I'd been waiting all day
  
-I got off work just past 11\\ +E Am B (x2)
-Laid one finger to the breeze\\ +
-You can almost taste the action\\ +
-On nights like these\\+
  
-Trees were bending in the wind\\ +E 
-And you were 40 miles away\\ +Moon over West Covina 
-And I was headed your direction\\ +C#m 
-I'd been waiting all day, i'd been waiting all day\\+Was huge and white 
 +    A 
 +And I was like a patient on a table 
 +F#m                  B 
 +Headed for the light
  
-Moon over West Covina\\ +E 
-Was huge and white\\ +Leaned toward the center divider 
-And I was like a patient on a table\\ +C#m 
-Headed toward the light\\ +Feel the wind in my hair 
-Leaned toward the center divider\\ +A 
-Feel the wind in my hair\\ +Keep a light up in your window 
-Keep a light up in your window\\ +F#m                      B                     (E) 
-I'm gonna be right there, I'm gonna be right there\\ +I'm gonna be right there, I'm gonna be right there
-With a gleam in my eye\\ +
-and an almost airtight alibi\\+
  
-Down by the Chemistry building\\ +E                  Am 
-I found a quiet place to park\\ +With a gleam in my eye 
-And I made my way down the street toward your place\\ +       E      C#m      A       B  
-Stepping lightly in the dark\\ +and an almost airtight   alibi
-Climbed the steps up to your doorway\\ +
-Like a man prepared to jump beneath a train\\ +
-It's real warm outside tonight\\ +
-Maybe tomorrow it rains, maybe tomorrow it rains\\+
  
-Inside your room we shut the window\\ +E C#m A B  
-And we turned on a fan\\ +E
-And we lay there together in the darkness\\ +
-I can keep a secret if you can\\ +
-Finishing one another's sentences\\ +
-Like a pair of identical twins\\ +
-Your boyfriend's out of town until Tuesday\\ +
-And nobody saw me come in, nobody saw me come in\\+
  
-With a gleam in my eye and an almost airtight alibi\\+E 
 +Down by the Chemistry building 
 +C#m 
 +I found a quiet place to park 
 +       A 
 +And I made my way down the street toward your place 
 +F#m                         B 
 +Stepping lightly in the dark
  
 +E
 +Climbed the steps up to your doorway
 +       C#m
 +Like a man prepared to jump beneath a train
 +          A
 +It's real warm outside tonight
 +F#m                     B                     (E)
 +Maybe tomorrow it rains, maybe tomorrow it rains
  
-<code> +E Am B (x2)
-Based on the above tab, I worked out the following:+
  
-Verses: E C#m A F# B +E 
-Between Verses:  E A B +Inside your room we shut the window 
-Chorus bit: E A E B+C#m 
 +And we turned on a fan 
 +       A 
 +And we lay there together in the darkness 
 +F#m                            B 
 +I can keep a secret if you can
  
-I'm really not sure about those A's and B's.  They maybe 7ths, or something else. +E 
-Corrections encouraged +Finishing one another's sentences 
-~Dan (dtrom4-at-aol-dot-com)+       C#m 
 +Like a pair of identical twins 
 +     A 
 +Your boyfriend's out of town until Tuesday 
 +F#m                       B                   (E) 
 +And nobody saw me come in, nobody saw me come in 
 + 
 +E                  Am 
 +With a gleam in my eye  
 +       E      C#m      A       B 
 +And an almost airtight   alibi 
 + 
 +E C#m A B 
 +E 
 + 
 +E Am B (x4) 
 + 
 +End on an E chord 
 + 
 +Thanks to Dan and others for starting this off 
 +I just fixed a few errors and typed it out/formatted for readability 
 +-miranda
 </code> </code>
  
 <code> <code>
-Great addition with all the tabs, will try and help out where I can. 
 I'm thinkin' this is how it goes for this one I'm thinkin' this is how it goes for this one
 There's a rundown at the A chord during the verse. There's a rundown at the A chord during the verse.
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 Verses: E C#m A /G#/F#/E F#m B Verses: E C#m A /G#/F#/E F#m B
-Pretty sure it's an F#minor for the verse too. 
- 
-Between and for the chorus sounds like an A minor too. 
- 
-So for them it goes something like 
-E Am B  
-E Am B 
- 
--carnac44@gmail.com 
 </code> </code>
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