Wild West tab by Joe Jackson

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        Wild West ? Joe Jackson
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Joe Jackson
Wild West (1986)
(Joe Jackson)

From: "Big World"

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CHORDS

     E-A-D-G-B-e
Cm6/G   3-x-1-2-1-3

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INTRO (fade in)
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VERSE
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Out to the west there's a trail that leads somewhere
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And a call of the wild that takes some people there
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Through Monument Valley to California sun
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From New Amsterdam to the way the west was won


BRIDGE
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Well, years will go by when you won't get nowhere
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You're cold and you're tired and you're free and you don't care


VERSE
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You keep pushin' on when your friends keep turning back
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And you keep building towns and laying railroad track
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And things get crazy and you have to use that gun
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And you wonder if this is the way the west is won


BRIDGE
  Fadd9             C      G
But keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere
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'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to


CHORUS
Fadd9           C
Gotta keep runnin', gotta be the best
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Gotta walk tall in the wi-ld west


INTERLUDE
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VERSE
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You keep on the move or you try to settle down
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And there's strangers from further and further away in town
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And you give them some tools and they know what must be done
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And you know who's the boss and you know the west was won


BRIDGE
       Fadd9         C      G
And they say: Where I come from, you can't get nowhere
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I'm breaking my back for some opportunity


CHORUS
Fadd9           C
Making my fortune and I'll take it all home
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Tell my kids about the wi-ld west


MIDDLE 8
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 And there's still beauty as the flowers bloom on desert sands
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 And there's still hope as the sun rises over the Rio Grande
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 But it's so crowded now and nothing's simple anymore
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 And they're still knocking at your door


INTERLUDE
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VERSE
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You hear guns in the night and you hope they're not for you
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'Cause a dog eats a dog then he eats his master too
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In the land of the free and the not so often brave
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There's both love or money now choose which you will save


BRIDGE
  Fadd9             C      G
But keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere
    Fadd9          C           G
'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to


CHORUS
Fadd9           C
Gotta keep runnin', gotta be the best
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Gotta walk tall in the wi-ld west


BRIDGE
Fadd9             C      G
Keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere
    Fadd9          C           G
'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to


CHORUS
Fadd9           C
Gotta keep runnin', gotta be the best
Bb           Dm C
Gotta walk tall in the wi-ld (west)
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Gotta walk tall in the wi-ld (west)
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Gotta walk tall in the wi-ld west        (fade out)