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Back In The Crowd

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Step 1 / 18Position: 1
1 index2 middle3 ring4 pinkyO open
forward slashes in the solo and outro are numbers of bars a chord should be played.
The intro fiddles around on the c-chord, a little like this:
e|-0-0-1-0------0-0-1-0------0-0-1-0---0---------|
B|-1-------3-1--1-------3-1--1-------3-----------|
G|-0------------0------------0-------------------|
D|-2------------2------------2-------------------|
A|-3------------3------------3-------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
CIf you don’t want these arms to hold you
CIf you don’t want these lips to kiss you
CIf you’ve found somebody new
Put me Fback in the Gcrowd
Put the Fsun behind the Gclouds
Put me back in the Ccrowd
There’s a Fbattle goGing on
Between the Cblue and the Amgrey
And Dmif you don’t want my love
Don’t make me BbstayG  
[solo]
C////// F   G   F   GC//
There’s a Fbattle goGing on
Between the Cblue and the Amgrey
And Dmif you don’t want my love
Don’t make me BbstayG  
CTake back your name
CTake back these wings
CTake my picture from the frame
And put me Fback in the Gcrowd
Put the Fsun behind the Gcloud
Put me back in the Ccrowd
put me Fback in the Gcrowd
Put the Fsun behind the Gcloud
Put me back in the Ccrowd
[outro]
C/ Db  C  
Oooh, ooh-hoo
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