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Uptight (chromatic)

by Stevie Wonder · posted by WaltP

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Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
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Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab
UPTIGHT (Everthing’s Alright)chromatic
By: Stevie Wonder, Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby
Key: D

-7 -6* 6   -5  -5   -4 -5   -4
Ba-by, ev-'ry-thing is all right, 
-7  -6*    6  -5 -4 -3
Up-tight, out of sight.
-7 -6* 6   -5  -5   -4 -5   -4
Ba-by, ev-'ry-thing is all right, 
-7  -6*    6  -5 -4 -3
Up-tight, out of sight.


-4 -3  -8   -7   -6*
I'm a poor-man's son, 
 -5 -5  -5   -4   -5   -5    6
from a-cross the rail-road tracks,
-5  -7 -7  -7  -7 -6* -5
The on-ly shirt I own is 
 -7  -7  -7 -7 -6*
Hang-in' on my back,
-5 -6*6-5 -5  -5 -5 -4 -5  -4 -5  -5   6
But  I'm  the en-vy of ev-'ry sin-gle guy
 -5   -6*  6  -5 -5  -4 -7   -7  -6*6-5
Since I'm the ap-ple of my girl's eye.

 -3  -4 -5 -5   -5   -5  -3 -4   -5  -4 -5   6
When we go out step-ping on the town for a while
-5 -6*  6   -5  -4  -5  -7    -7  -7  -6*
My mon-ey's low and my suit's out of style,
-4   -5  -7   -6*  -4 -5   6     -5  -4  -5 
But it's all right if my clothes are-n't new
-7  -7  -6*  -4  -5   -4  -5   6   -5
Out of sight be-cause my heart is true.

-4   -5  -7 -6* 6  -5  -5   -4 -5  -4
She says ba-by ev-'ry-thing is al-right, 
-7  -6*   -8  -7  -6*
Up-tight, out of sight.
-8-7-6* 6   -5  -5   -4 -5  -4    -7  -6*
Ba- by, ev-'ry-thing is al-right, up-tight, 
 -8   -7  -8  -5
clean out of sight.

-7 -7-7-7 -9 8 ~~-88-8-7
-7 -7-7-7 -9 8 ~~-88-8-7
-7 -7-7-7 -9 8 ~~-88-8-7 -7 -7

 -3  -4  -5   -5 -4 -5
She's a pearl of a girl, 
-3 -4    -5     -5  -5   -4    6
I guess that's what you might say,
-3 -6*   6   -5     -5    -5  -7  -7 -6*6-5
I guess her folks brought her up that way,
-3   -4    -5  -5 -4   -5  
The right side of the tracks, 
-3  -4   -5  -5    6
she was born and raised
-4 -5 -8   -7  -7   -5
In a great big old house, 
 -5  -5 -7   -7  -7  -6*6-5
full of but-lers and maids.
-4   -5  -8 -6* -4 -5  -5   6   6
She says no one is bet-ter than I, 
-5 -7  -7   -5  -7 -7 -7 -7  -6*
I know I'm just an av-er-age guy,
-6*-6*6-5-5  -5 -4 -5  -5    -5   6
No foot-ball her-o or smooth Don Juan,
-5  -6* -6* 6   -5 
Got emp-ty pock-ets, 
-5  -4  -4  -7 -7  -7  -6*6-5
you see I'm a poor-man's son.

-4     -5  -5  -5  -5-3-4  -5  -4  -4 -5   6
Can’t give her the things that mon-ey can buy
-5   -5  -6* 6   -5  -4
But I'll nev-er, nev-er
-5  -5  -5  -7 -7 -7 -7-6*
Nev-er make my ba-by cry,

-4   -5  -7   -6*    -5  6  -5-4 -5
And it's all right, what I can't do,
-7  -7  -6*  -4  -5   -4  -5   6   -5
Out of sight be-cause my heart is true,
-4   -5  -7 -6* 6  -5  -5   -4 -5  -4
She says ba-by ev-'ry-thing is al-right, 
-7  -6*    -8   -8  -7  -6*
up-tight, clean out of sight.
-8-7-6* 6   -5  -5   -4 -5   -4
Ba- by, ev-'ry-thing is all right, 
-7  -6*    -8   -7  -8  -5
Up-tight, clean out of sight.

-7 -7-7-7 -9 8 ~~-88-8-7
-7 -7-7-7 -9 8 ~~-88-8-7
-7 -7-7-7 -9 8 ~~-88-8-7 -7 -7

-3  -4  -5   -5 -4 -5
She's a pearl of a girl, 
-3 -4    -5     -5  -5   -4    6
I guess that's what you might say,
-3 -6*   6   -5     -5    -5  -7  -7 -6*6-5
I guess her folks brought her up that way,
-3   -4    -5  -5 -4   -5  
The right side of the tracks, 
-3  -4   -5  -5    6
she was born and raised
-4 -5 -8   -7  -7   -5
In a great big old house, 
 -5  -5 -7   -7  -7  -6*6-5
full of but-lers and maids.

-4   -5  -7 -6*
She says ba-by, 
6   -5  -5   -4 -5  -4
ev-'ry-thing is al-right, 
-7  -6*   -8  -7  -8  -5
Up-tight, way out of sight.
-7 -6* 6  -5  -5   -4 -5  -4
Ba-by ev-'ry-thing is al-right, 
-7  -6*   -8  -7  -8  -5
Up-tight, way out of sight.

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