Always On Your Side bass

Always On Your Side

Sting / Sheryl Crow
Always on your side

=> Bass tab

Tuning : E A D G
Tempo  : 92 bpm

Intro:  Bb/F  F  Bb/F  F (piano)

Verse1: 00:06 (Sheryl Crow)
G|----------||----------||----------||----------|-
D|----------||-8~-------||----------||----------|-
A|-1~-------||-------8~-||-8-7-5~---||-5~-------|-
E|-------1~-||----------||----------||-----3~--3|-
    Bb/F             F             Bb/F         F
 My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away
Dm                Dm/C              G/B        
 But ev'ry now and then you come to mind

G|----------||----------|-
D|----------||----------|-
A|-1~-------||-5~-------|-
E|-------1~-||-------1--|-
Bb                     F             Dm                 G7     
 Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game

G|----------|----------||----------|-
D|----------|----------||----------|-
A|---1------|-3--------||----------|-
E|----------|-------1--||---1------|-
               Bb                    C               Dm    Dm/C   
 But when your name was called, you found a place to hide 

G|----------|----------|----------||----------|-
D|----------|----------|----------||----------|-
A|---1------|-3--------|----------||-1~-0-----|-
E|----------|-----3-1--|---1------||-----1----|-
           Bb               C             Bb/F  F  Bb/F   F 
 When you knew that I was always on your side

Verse2: 00:44 (Sting)
G|----------|----------||----------|----------|----------|-
D|----------|----------||----------|----------|----------|-
A|-1~-0-----|-1~-0-----||-8-7--5~--|-7-8--5~--|-8-7------|-
E|-----1--1-|-----1--1-||----------|----------|------3~-3|-
      Bb/F            F            Bb/F          F
 Well everything was easy then, so sweet and innocent
Dm              Dm/C         G/B  
 my demons and my angels reappeared

G|----------||----------|-
D|----------||----------|-
A|-1~-0-----||-5--------|-
E|-----1--1-||---5--3-1-|-
Bb             F            Dm                 G7                        
 Leavin' only traces of the man you thought I'd be

G|----------|----------||----------|-
D|----------|----------||----------|-
A|---1~-----|-3--------||----------|-
E|----------|------3-1-||-----1----|-
      Bb                 C                Dm     Dm/C  
 Too afraid to hear the words I'd always feared

G|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
D|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
A|---1~---|-3------|--------||-1~-0---|-
E|--------|----3-1-|---3-1--||------1-|-
         Bb            C                  Bb/F   F  Bb/F  F 
 Leavin' you with only questions all these years

Chorus1: 01:22
G|--------|--------|--------|---------|-
D|--------|--------|--------|---------|-
A|-5~--5--|-04-04--|-3---3-3|----1-01-|-
E|----5---|-------5|----3---|-3-------|-
     Dm                               A7/C#
 Now is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear
F/C                          G              
 Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear

G|--------|--------|-
D|--------|--------|-
A|1--1----|-/6--6--|-
E|-1--1--1|----6---|-
    Bb                           Eb  
 Or are you left to wander, all alone, eternally

Bridge1: 01:43
G|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
D|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
A|-----0--|-1------|-1---11-||---0~---|-
E|-3------|----1---|--------||--------|-
       Gm                     F/A     Bb     
 This isn't how it's really meant to be

G|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
D|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
A|-----0--|-1------|-3---33-||--1--3~-|-
E|-3------|----1---|--------||--------|-
F/A     Gm                    F/A      Csus  C
 No it isn't how it's really meant to be


Verse3: 01:57
G|----------|----------||----------|----------|----------|-
D|-8~-7-----|-8~-7-----||----------|----------|----------|-
A|-----8--8-|-----8--8-||-8-7--5~--|-7-8--5~--|-8-7------|-
E|----------|----------||----------|----------|------3~-3|-
   Bb               F         Bb/F          F  
 Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear, 
Dm                Dm/C              G/B
 How to pull it close and make it stay

G|----------||----------|-
D|----------||----------|-
A|-1~-0-----||-5--------|-
E|-----1--1-||---5--3-1-|-
Bb                    F              Dm          G7
 If butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away

G|----------|----------||----------|-
D|----------|----------||----------|-
A|---1~-----|-3--------||----------|-
E|----------|------3-1-||-----1~---|-
         Bb            C              Dm  Dm/C    
 And I'm left to carry on and wonder why

G|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
D|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
A|---1~---|-3------|--------||-1~-0---|-
E|--------|----3-1-|---3-1--||------1-|-
         Bb                C             Bb/F  F  Bb/F  F
 Even through it all, I'm always on your side

Chorus2: 02:34
G|--------|--------|--------|---------|-
D|--------|--------|--------|---------|-
A|-5~--5--|-04-04--|-3---3-3|----1-01-|-
E|----5---|-------5|----3---|-3-------|-
     Dm                               A7/C#
 But is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear
F/C                          G              
 Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear

G|--------|--------|-
D|--------|--------|-
A|-1---1--|-/6--6--|-
E|----1--1|----6---|-
    Bb                           Eb  
 Or are you left to wander, all alone, eternally


Bridge2: 02:54
G|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
D|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
A|-----0--|-1------|-1---11-||---0~---|-
E|-3------|----1---|--------||--------|-
       Gm                     F/A     Bb     
 This isn't how it's really meant to be

G|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
D|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
A|-----0--|-1------|-3---33-||--1--3~-|-
E|-3------|----1---|--------||--------|-
F/A     Gm                    F/A      Csus  C
 No it isn't how it's really meant to be


Verse4:03:08
G|----------|----------||----------|----------|----------|-
D|-8~-7-----|-8~-7-----||----------|----------|----------|-
A|-----8--8-|-----8--8-||-8-7--5~--|-7-8--5~--|-8-7------|-
E|----------|----------||----------|----------|------3~-3|-
            Bb               F         Bb/F          F  
 Well they say that love is in the air, never is it clear, 
Dm                Dm/C              G/B
 How to pull it close and make it stay

G|----------||----------|-
D|----------||----------|-
A|-1~-0-----||-5--------|-
E|-----1--1-||---5--3-1-|-
Bb                    F              Dm          G7
 If butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away

         Bb          C              Dm  Dm/C
 Leavin' me to carry on and wonder why

G|----------|----------||----------|-
D|----------|----------||----------|-
A|---1~-----|-3--------||----------|-
E|----------|------3-1-||-----1~---|-
         Bb                C             Bb/F  F  Bb/F  F
 Even through it all, I'm always on your side

G|----------|----------|----------||----------|-
D|----------|----------|----------||----------|-
A|---1~-----|---3~-----|---5~-----||----------|-
E|----------|----------|----------||-3~----1~-|-
        Bb                 C                    Dm   Dm/C
 Was it you that kept me wondering through this life

G|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
D|--------|--------|--------||--------|-
A|---1~---|-3------|--------||-1~-0---|-
E|--------|----3-1-|---3-1--||------1-|-
          Bb                C      Bb/F       F   
 When you know that I was always on your side

Outro: 03:49
G|--------||---------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--------|-
D|--------||---------|--------|---3----|---------|--------|--------|-
A|-1~-0---||-1-----3-|---6----|--------|---1-----|-1----0-|--------|-
E|------1-||---------|--------|--------|---------|--------|--1~~~--|-
Bb/F   F  Bb  C  Eb  Bb/D  F


End: 04:12

CHORDS: 

Bb/F  1x333x
F     133211
Dm    xx0231
Dm/C  x3x231
G/B   x20033
G7    320001
C     x32010
A7/C# x42223
F/C   x33211
G     320033
Eb    xx1343
Gm    355333
F/A   x03211
Csus  x3556x
Bb/D  xx0331


Index

| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| g   Gost note
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| +   harmonic
| x   Mute note
| b   Bend

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