Tom: Em
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Tell Me – Michael Stanley Band – (from North Coast Album)
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Tabbed by: Jim Backston
Twitter: JBackston
Intro: G C D (4 times)
Verse 1
G D C B C
Nobody's talking about it
Em D B C
Everybody's walking around it
B
Do they really think that I'm so blind
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Em A D
That I can't see...
G D C B C
Everybody knows that you're leaving
Em D B C
And I can tell that you stopped believing
B
After all that we've been through
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Em A D
Is that the way you want it to be...
Chorus
You gotta...
G
Tell me you don't remember me
G D C
Tell me that I don't stand a chance
C B D
Tell me it's something that I said
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C B D
Tell me you'd rather see me dead
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G
Or tell me that there's some other guy
G D C
Tell me you just don't want to try
C B D
Tell me the way it's gonna be
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C B D
Give me the word girl set me free
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C B D G C D G C D
But baby don't tell them tell me...
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Verse 2
G D C B C
Do you think that I got it coming
Em D
Did you think that maybe by running
B
Running out in the dark of the night
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Em A D
Is that the way you want to go...
G D C B C
'Cause out there it's life for the taking
Em D B C
Back here it's my heart that's breaking
B
And you know that it hurts so bad
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Em A D
To be the very last one to know...
Chorus 2
You gotta...
G
Tell me you don't remember me
G D C
Tell me that I don't stand a chance
C B D
Tell me it's something that I said
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C B D
Tell me you'd rather see me dead
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G
Or tell me that there's some other guy
G D C
Tell me you just don't want to try
C B D
Tell me the way it's gonna be
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C B D
Give me the word girl set me free
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C B D G C D G C D
But baby don't tell them tell me...
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Turnaround
A F
I'm not looking for a confrontation
C G D
But I gotta know what to do
A F
And I'm tired of this second-hand information
C D
I just want to hear it from you...
Chorus 3
You gotta...
G
Tell me you don't remember me
G D C
Tell me that I don't stand a chance
C B D
Tell me it's something that I said
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C B D
Tell me you'd rather see me dead
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G
Or tell me that there's some other guy
G D C
Tell me you just don't want to try
C B D
Tell me the way it's gonna be
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C B D
Give me the word girl set me free
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C B D G C D G C D
But baby don't tell them tell me...
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