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How Long You Wanna Live Anyway

Stray Cats

Chord: Principal (acoustic and electric guitars)
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key: F
You Need The Words To See How This Fits In As Its pretty Complex:

Intro: All right cats! One! Two! Three! Four!
        Gb5/G5 |||||| Gb5/G5 ||||||  etc.

Verse 1:
Well it's (G5)no good to smoke and it's no good to drink 
What the hell you're doing boy don't you never ever think? 
Well (C5)you're killing yourself man and you're just a kid 
So you (G5)better slow down or you'll wish that you did 
Well (D5)maybe I'll only last a (C5)year and a day, but
(G5)how long you wanna live, (G5) anyway? Gb5/G5 ||||||  etc.

E---------------|
B---------------|
G---------------|
D-0-2-0-3-0-2-0-|
A---------------|
E---------------|

Verse 2: (chords as before put play G or C riff where appropriate)

G riff:                 C riff:
|-----------------|             |-----------------|
|-----------------|             |-----------------|
|-----------------|             |---------3-3-2---|
|---------3-3-2---|             |-----2-5-------5-|
|-----2-5-------5-|             |-3-3-------------|
|-3-3-------------|             |-----------------|

Well I just don't care and I just can't be bothered 
Well I'm sick of taking crap from my mother and my father 
Well I'm looking real cool my hair all greased 
Well there ain't no way I'm gonna live like a priest 
Well maybe I'll only last a year and a day, but how long you wanna live
anyway? 

guitar solo

Verse 3:
Well you're growin' old man and you ain't having no fun 
Well I'm still young and I'm-a gettin' me some 
Well you can hide away and you can live like a monk 
Well I'll be a low down dirty skunk 
Well (D5)maybe I'll only last a (C5)year and a day,
(D5)Maybe I'll only last a (C5)year and a day 
(D5)Maybe I'll only last a (C5)year and a day, but
(G5)Like, how long you wanna live (G5) anyway?
Gb5/G5 |||||| (3X)

  G9
|-10-10-10-10\-|
|-10-10-10-10\-|
|-10-10-10-10\-|
|-9--9--9--9\--|
|-10-10-10-10\-|
|--------------|

Guitar solo:
|------3-3-----3-3------3-3------3-3------3-3-3-----3-----3--------------
|------3-3-----3-3------3-3------3-3------3-3-3-----3-----3--------------
|-5(b)-----5(b)-----5(b)-----5(b)-----5(b)------5(b)--5(b)--5(b-r)-3-5-3-
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------3-6-3-6-3------------3-----3-----------------
---5(b)-5(b)-5-3-5-3-5-3------------3-----3-----------------
-3-5(b)-5(b)-5-----------5(b-r)-3-----5/7---5(b)-5(b-r)-3---
----------------------------------5-----------------------5-
------------------------------------------------------------
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-----------------------------3-----5---5-5-------3-6-6(b)-
---5(b)-5(b)-5(b)-5(b)-3-5-3-3-5/7---7-----7-3/5---5-5(b)-
-3-5(b)-5(b)-5(b)-5(b)-3-5-3------------------------------
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-3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3---------------|
-------3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3(p)0-------3(p)0---0-2-0-3-0-2-0-|
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