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Shayla by Blondie

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verse 1
    Shayla                worked in a   factory                 she wasn't
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    history            she's just a     number
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one day                 she gets her final pay              and she goes
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    far away
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bit of a fill
lots of ooing and woing

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    1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &   1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

verse 2
as verse 1 but not the fill
  green trees, call to me
  I am free but life is so cheap
  scenery is still outside of me
  all alone trapped by its beauty

  two notes into chorus
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chorus

    Shayla turned to run away   to leave in peace and end her stay 
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     years of fear were in her way   lost in space and down she came
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short guitar riff can't work out bass line but it follows this riff
play it twice
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verse 3
as verse 1 but after 2nd line put this little bit in
  suddenly some subtle entity
  some cosmic energy brushed her like shadows
  down here we stay to wonder
  cause on the freeway bright lights and thunder
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repeat the fill which follows verse 1 and add this little jangle


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