If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab

IF YOU LOVE SOMEBODY SET THEM FREE
By: Sting
The Police
Key: C

 -7     7    6    5   -5
Free, free, set them free
 -7     7    6    5   -5
Free, free, set them free
 -7     7    6    5   -5
Free, free, set them free

5  -5   -6   -5  -5 -6  -5  6  -4-3
If you need some-bod-y call my name
5  -5   -6   -5  -6
If you want some-one
-5  -5  6  -4  -4-3
You can do the same
7  -6   7   -6   7    7    -6    7   -7
If you want to keep some-thing prec-ious
-6  -6  -6  -6 -6 -5    -6 -6 -6  -5  -6
Got to lock it up and throw a-way the key
 7    7  -6  7   7  -6  7   -6   7   -7
You want to hold on-to your pos-ses-sion
 -5   -5 -5   -6  -5 -5  -5
Don’t ev-en think a-bout me

-7 -8   -8  -6*   6 -5  -7 -8   -8   7    7
If you love some-bod-y  If you love some-one
-7 -8   -8  -6*   6 -5  -7 -8   -8   -9  -7
If you love some-bod-y  If you love some-one, 
 8   -7   -6    -9   8     7    6   -5
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free

-5  -5 -5 -6  -5  -5   -6
If it’s a mir-ror you want
 -5   -5  -5 -5  6  6
Just look in-to my eyes
5 -5  -6   -6  -5    -5  -5  6  -4  -4-3
Or a whip-ping boy  Some-one to des-pise
7 -6   7   -67 7  -6  7 -7
Or a pris-‘ner in the dark
  7  7   7  -5 -6 -6   -6   -5   -6
Tied up in chains you just can’t see
7 7  7-67  -6-6  7   -7  -7 
Or a beast in a gild-ed cage
  -5   -5   -5  -5  -6  -5 -5  -5  -5 -5
That’s all some peo-ple ev-er want to be

-7 -8   -8  -6*   6 -5  -7 -8   -8   7    7
If you love some-bod-y  If you love some-one
-7 -8   -8  -6*   6 -5  -7 -8   -8   -9  -7
If you love some-bod-y  If you love some-one, 
 8   -7   -6    -9   8     7    6   -5
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free

 7   -6    5   7   -6  5  5  6    7    7
You can’t con-trol an in-de-pen-dent heart
  7    -6   5   5   5    6 -5  5
Can’t tear the one you love a-part
   7     7    6   5    7     7
(can’t love what you can’t keep)

 5  -7  7 -6  -6    7    5  5  -7*
For-ev-er con-di-tioned to be-lieve 
-7*  -7   7    -6
that we can’t live
7    7     7    7   7  -6  7  7   -6   7
We can’t live here and be hap-py with less
 5   7   7 -6  -6  -5  -9  8 -7   8      
With so man-y rich-es  So man-y souls
  5  -7  8    8   -7  8
With ev-‘ry-thing we see 
  8  8   -9  8   8    8
that we want to pos-sess

5  -5   -6   -5  -5 -6  -5  6  -4-3
If you need some-bod-y call my name
5  -5   -6   -5  -6
If you want some-one
-5  -5  6  -4  -4-3
You can do the same
7  -6   7   -6   7    7    -6    7   -7
If you want to keep some-thing prec-ious
-6  -6  -6  -6 -6 -5    -6 -6 -6  -5  -6
Got to lock it up and throw a-way the key
 7    7  -6  7   7  -6  7   -6   7   -7
You want to hold on-to your pos-ses-sion
 -5   -5 -5   -6  -5 -5  -5
Don’t ev-en think a-bout me

-7 -8   -8  -6*   6 -5  -7 -8   -8   7    7
If you love some-bod-y  If you love some-one
-7 -8   -8  -6*   6 -5  -7 -8   -8   -9  -7
If you love some-bod-y  If you love some-one, 
 8   -7   -6    -9   8     7    6   -5
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free
-7    7   -5    -9   8     7    6   -6
Set them free, free free  Set them free

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