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Difficulty: Intermediate

I SURRENDER                            Rainbow
                            Composed by Russ Ballard

Opening Riff:
|Chord diagramG5G5    |       |       |      |
Verse:
Chord diagramC5C5 Chord diagramC5C5 Chord diagramD5D5    Chord diagramF5F5 Chord diagramF5F5 Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramF5F5   Chord diagramG5G5    Chord diagramA5A5   Chord diagramBb5Bb5   Chord diagramF5F5             Chord diagramG5G5   Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramF5F5 Chord diagramG5G5
I  surrender         to your heart babe do anything that you want me to do
Chord diagramC5C5     Chord diagramC5C5 Chord diagramD5D5    Chord diagramF5F5 Chord diagramF5F5 Chord diagramG5G5    Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramF5F5   Chord diagramG5G5    Chord diagramA5A5   Chord diagramBb5Bb5       Chord diagramF5F5     Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramG5G5 Chord diagramF5F5 Chord diagramG5G5
please be tender       I'm  in your hands girl this is a feeling I never knew

|Chord diagramG5G5     |

Chord diagramEb MajorEb     Chord diagramFF        Chord diagramBb majorBb            Chord diagramEb MajorEb   Chord diagramG minorGm
You know I tried to make it on my own. That's not the way it was meant to be
Chord diagramEb MajorEb        Chord diagramFF   Chord diagramBb majorBb             Chord diagramEb MajorEb     Cm/A            Chord diagramD MajorD
Spend my time waiting by the phone, oh darling come back to me

Chorus:
         Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramEb MajorEb        Chord diagramFF  Chord diagramDmDm      Chord diagramEb MajorEb            Chord diagramC minorCm         Chord diagramEb MajorEb Chord diagramD MajorD
    I surrender, I surrender I'm giving up the role of pretender.

Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramEb MajorEb           Chord diagramFF  Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramEb MajorEb                 Chord diagramC minorCm          Chord diagramD MajorD
    Oh be tender, girl be tender can't you feel the love that I send you

Interlude:
        |:Gm      |Chord diagramC minorCm      |Chord diagramFF       |Chord diagramBb majorBb      |Chord diagramEb MajorEb      |Chord diagramD MajorD       :| x2
       I surrende  -- ee ---- er.    Oooh -- ooo --ooo....

Opening riff (the latter half only)
|Chord diagramG5G5      |        |

Verse:
I remember, seems like a lifetime. Can't believe it's a matter of days
since you left me. I'm near to heartbreak, I want you so bad don't turn away.

What does it take to stay by my side? You know I'll do, what you want me to.
Don't take away this feeling inside, I'm still in love with you.

Chorus:
    I surrender, I surrender I'm giving up the role of pretender
    oh be tender, girl be tender can't you feel the love that I send you?

I surrendee -- ee -- eer.
    I surrendee -- ee -- eer.

Bridge:
        |Chord diagramG minorGm      |        |        |        |
         Ooo --   ooh!     Yea  --  aah!

Chorus:
    I surrender, I surrender darling now won't you be tender
    I surrender, oh surrender feel the love that I send you

I surrendee -- ee -- eer.
    I surrendee -- ee -- eer.

Instrumental:(repeat as you wish)
        |:Gm      |Chord diagramC minorCm      |Chord diagramFF       |Chord diagramBb majorBb      |Chord diagramEb MajorEb      |Chord diagramD MajorD       :|

-- TIPS AND REMARKS --

On some notations the chords during the opening riff are marked for example:

|Chord diagramG minorGm  Chord diagramEb/GEb/G|Cm/G    |x2

As I recall that might be the way it was written on the publised song book, but I don't
hear Rainbow playing it that way.

What you hear on the opening riff is basically this:

e|----------------|----------------|----------------|15--------------|
Chord diagramBB|8-----11--------|13--------------|8-----11--------|----------------|
Chord diagramG+G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

For a more advanced technique you can try this. The bend should actually be more like a
"prebend". The two strings should really ring in unison. In the studio recording this
was probably done in multiple takes, but Richie also plays this live on some recordings.

e|----------------|----------------|----------------|15--------------|
Chord diagramBB|8-----11--------|13--------------|8-----11--------|18b20-----------|
Chord diagramG+G|10b12-12b14-----|15b17-----------|10b12-12b14-----|----------------|
Chord diagramD MajorD|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

The "Cm/A" is played as open chord arpeggio. The first time the latter half sounds like
a triplet to me:

[ - 3 - ]
e|--------3-------|
Chord diagramBB|------4----4----|
Chord diagramG+G|----5---------5-|
Chord diagramD MajorD|--5-------------|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|0---------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|----------------|

...and the second time regular 1/8's:

e|--------3-------|
Chord diagramBB|------4---4-----|
Chord diagramG+G|----5-------5---|
Chord diagramD MajorD|--5-----------5-|
Chord diagramA augmentedA|0---------------|
Chord diagramE MajorE|----------------|

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