Stay As Sweet As You Are

by Nat King Cole, Faron Young · posted by WaltP

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

STAY AS SWEET AS YOU ARE
By: Mack Gordon & Harry Revel
Nat King Cole, Faron Young
Key: C

  8   8  -8   8  -9   8
Stay as sweet as you are 
  -8   8 -9   8  -5*  6   -7    7
don't let a thing ev-er change you
  7  7   -6*   7 -7   7
Stay as sweet as you are 
 -6*   7 -7   7  -4  5   -6   6
don't let a soul re-ar-range you
  6   5  6   7    6   7     8    8   8   8
Don't ev-er lose all the charms you pos-sess
-9    -9  -9  -9   -9   8
Your love-li-ness darl-ing 
-7  -5  -5  -5   7
the way you say yes.

  8  8   -8   8  -9   8
Stay as sweet as you are 
 8   -8   8  -9   8   -5*    6  -7   7 
Dis-creet as you are you're di-vine dear
 7   7   -6*  7  -7   7
Stay as grand as you are 
-6*  7 -7   7   -4  4
and as you are tell me 
 -4    5     -6   6
that you're mine dear
  6    5   5  6   7   6   6
Young and gay or old and gray 
 8   8  8  -7 8 10
near to me or a-far
  10   9   9 -7  -7   10     9 
Night and day I pray that you'll 
9   7*   7*  8   -8   8  -9   9
Al-ways stay as sweet as you are.

REPEAT

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