I'm Alive

by Electric Light Orchestra · posted by WaltP

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+: 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

I'M ALIVE 
By: Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra
Key: G, A

 7  7  7    6  -6*   7    -6* 6 
I'm a-live and the world shines 
 6 6-5 -5 -5
for me to-day
 7  7  7    6  -6* 7 -6*6 6  6-5 -5 -5
I'm a-live sud-den-ly I  am here to-day
 -5    4   -4  -4 5    7 -8 -7
Seems like for-ev-er (and a day), 
  -5    4  -4   -4  5    7    -8  -7
thought I could nev-er (feel this way)
-5* -5*  6  -6*  7
Is this real-ly me? 
-7 -7 -8-7  -7 -7 -8-7
I'm a-live, I'm a-live
-6  6  7    6  -6*  7   
I'm a-live and the dawn 
-6* 6  6  6-5  -5  -5
breaks a-cross the sky
 7  7  7      6  -6*  7
I'm a-live - and the sun 
-6*6 6 6-5 -5  -5 
Ris-es  up so high

 -5   4 -4 -4   5   5     7 -8 -7
Lost in an-oth-er world (far a-way), 
-5  4  -4 -4   5  5     7   -8 -7
Nev-er an-oth-er word (till to-day)
-5* -5*   6 -6* 7
But what can I say? 
-7 -7  -8   -7 -7  -8   
I'm a-live, I'm a-live, 
-7 -7 -8-7-88-8-77
I'm a-    live

-5   4  -4  -4   5   5 
Sud-den-ly came the dawn 
  7   -8   -7
(from the night), 
-5   4  -4-4  5   5    7  -8  -7
Sud-den-ly I was born (in-to light)
-5* -5* 6 -6*   7
How can it be real? 
-7 -7  -8   -7 -7  -8    
I'm a-live, I'm a-live, 
 7  7 -8-7-88-8-7
I'm a-   live

-7 -7 -8-7-88-8-77
I'm a-   live 

Key: A

-8 -8  8*   -8 -8  8*
I'm a-live, I'm a-live, 
-8 -8  8*   -8 -8  8
I'm a-live, I'm a-live

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