Livin' Thing

by Electric Light Orchestra · posted by WaltP

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−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
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bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab

LIVIN’ THING
By: Jeff Lynn
Electric Light Orchestra
Key: C 

  3  3   3 -3  -3 -3    -4  -4 -4 4
Sail-in' a-way on the crest of a wave
  4   -4 -44-4-3
It's like mag-ic
4    4   4    4  -5  -5 
Oh, roll-in' and rid-in' 
-5   -5* -5*   5   -6 -5*
and slip-pin' and slid-in'
-5* -5-5*-5 4
It's  mag- ic

 3 -77-77  6    7    -7  7    6
And  you, and your sweet de-sire,
 6    6 -77-6 6   2  3  -3   4   -3
You took me, oh high-er and high-er
 -3 -4  4  4     4
It's a liv-in' thing,
 -3 -4  4  4   4   -4 -3-4-3 3
It's a ter-ri-ble thing to lose
 -3 -4  4  4    4
It's a giv-en thing
 -3 -4  4  4   4    -4 -3-4-3  3 
What a ter-ri-ble thing  to lose.

 3   3  3   -3    -3  -3
Mak-ing be-lieve this is 
 -4  -4  -4     4  
what you con-ceived
  4   -4  -44-4 -3
From your worst day,
 4  4   4  4   -5 
Oh mov-in’ in line 
 -5  -5   -5* -5*   5  -6
then you look back in time
-5*-5* -5-5*-5 5 
To the  first day

 3 -77-77  6    7    -7  7    6
And  you, and your sweet de-sire,
 6    6 -77-6 6   2  3  -3   4   -3
You took me, oh high-er and high-er
 -3 -4  4  4     4
It's a liv-in' thing,
 -3 -4  4  4   4   -4 -3-4-3 3
It's a ter-ri-ble thing to lose
 -3 -4  4  4    4
It's a giv-en thing
 -3 -4  4  4   4    -4 -3-4-3  3 
What a ter-ri-ble thing  to lose.

 3  3   3  -3   -3  -3   -4    -4  -4    4
Tak-in' a dive 'cos you can't halt the slide
  4   -4  -44-4  -3
Float-ing down-stream,
4  4   4   4  -5
Oh so let her go 
  -5   -5    -5*  -5*  5   -6
don't start spoil-ing the show
-5* -5*-5-5*-5 5 
It's a  bad  dream

 3 -77-77  6    7    -7  7    6
And  you, and your sweet de-sire,
 6    6 -77-6 6   2  3  -3   4   -3
You took me, oh high-er and high-er
 -3 -4  4  4     4
It's a liv-in' thing,
 -3 -4  4  4   4   -4 -3-4-3 3
It's a ter-ri-ble thing to lose
 -3 -4  4  4    4
It's a giv-en thing
 -3 -4  4  4   4    -4 -3-4-3  3 
What a ter-ri-ble thing  to lose.

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