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Stay With Me "The Rose"

by Bette Midler · posted by waltp

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Tab
STAY WITH ME 
By: Jerry Ragovoy, George Weiss
From: &ldquo;The Rose&rdquo;
Bette Midler
Key: F
Time: 6/8

 -3    3  -2  3   
Where did you go 
 3     -2    2    -2    -2 -2
when things went wrong, ba-by?
-5   5  -3* -5  5  -2
Who did you run to and
-5* -5* -5*  -5  5  -3*  -2   3   -2 -2
Find a shoul-der to lay your head up-on
-3   3 -2   3
was-n't I there?
-5  -5 -5  7    6    -5  6   5
Did-n't I take good care of you?
-7  -6 -7   -7  -7  -7
No, no, I can't be-lieve 
  8     8    8  8  
you're leav-ing me 
 -7   7   -6  -7 7
Stay with me, ba-by
 -7   7   -6  -7 7
Stay with me, ba-by
 -7   7   -6  -7 7
Stay with me, ba-by
-7 7 -6 -5-2 -34
I can't  go   on
-3   3  -2    3    3    3
Who did you touch when you 
 -2  2  -2   1   1
Need-ed ten-der-ness
-5 -5   5 -3*  5
I gave you so much
-2 -5* -5* -5* -5  5   -3* -2  -2
And in re-turn I found hap-pi-ness
 -3   3 -2 3
What did I do?
-5  -5 7  7  -6   -5  5   5
May-be I was too good to you
-7  -6 -7 -7   -7  -7     8     8   8   8
No, no I can't be-lieve you're leav-in' me 
 -7   7   -6  -7 7
Stay with me, ba-by
 -7   7   -6  -7 7
Stay with me, ba-by
 -7   7   -6  -7 7
Stay with me, ba-by
6   6  -5   -3   5     5
Re-mem-ber, you said you&rsquo;re 
5   5    5  5   5   5
Al-ways gon-na love me
-6  6  -5   -3   5     5
Re-mem-ber, you said you'd 
 5  5  5  5    5   5
nev-er ev-er leave me
-6  6  -5   -6  6  -5
Re-mem-ber, re-mem-ber, 
-6   7*  7  -6    7*  7   -6
I'm ask-ing you, beg-ging you

7*   -7   7   -6  -7 7   
Oh, stay with me, ba-by 
 -7   7   -6  -7 7
Stay with me, ba-by?
 -7   7   -6  -7 7
Stay with me, ba-by
-7 7 -6-5-2 4...
I can't go on
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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