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Not Fade Away

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Not Fade Away:The Crickets.
Album - Not Fade Away (Remembering Buddy Holly) -
#11 on CANADIAN RPM Country Albums, #19 on BB
Top Country and #119 on BB Hot 200 in 1996.
(Originally recorded on BRUNSWICK Records in 1957.)
INTRO: E   A   E(x2)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)(x2)
#1.
EI'm a-gonna tell you how it's gonna Abe.
(AMmmp-bop..Dbop-bop..Abop-bop)
EYou gonna give your Alove to Eme.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
#2.
EI wanna love you night and Aday.
(AMmmp-bop..Dbop-bop..Abop-bop)
EYou know my love is love not Afade aEway.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
EWell, you know my love is not Afade aEway.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
#3.
EMy love is bigger than a CadillAac.
(AMmmp-bop..Dbop-bop..Abop-bop)
I Etry to show it and you Adrive me Eback.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
EYour love for me got to be Areal.
(AMmmp-bop..Dbop-bop..Abop-bop)
EFor you to know-a just Ahow I Efeel.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
ELove for real not Afade aEway.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
INTERLUDE: A   D  A  
(AMmmp-bop..Dbop-bop..Abop-bop)
E A E
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
A D A
(AMmmp-bop..Dbop-bop..Abop-bop)
E A E
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
#4.
EI'm a-gonna tell you how it's gonna Abe.
(AMmmp-bop..Dbop-bop..Abop-bop)
EYou gonna give your Alove to Eme.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
AA love to last-a more Dthan one Aday.
(AMmmp-bop..Dbop-bop..Abop-bop)
EA love is love and not Afade aEway.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
EA love is love and not Afade aEway.
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
OUTRO:
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)
(EMmmp-bop..Abop-bop..Ebop-bop)(Fade.)
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