smile like you mean it

by david gray , the killers · posted by justice

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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
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

this tabbed the way david gray sings it
~linger
chorus
  5    5    -4  -4  4
Smile like you mean it,
4 -5 5 4   4 -5 5  
Woooo-oh, wooooh-oh
 5     5    -4  -4   4~
Smile like you mean it

Verse 1
 4    4    6     6   6    5     -56   -5  5
Save some face, you know you've only got one
 4       4   6 5   4    4      4
Change your ways while you're young
 6    6   -5   5    4  -4  5
Boy, one day you'll be a man
  6    6     -5 5  4  -4  4
Girl, he'll never understand

chorus

Verse 2
Looking back at sunsets on the Eastside
I lost all track of time
Dreams aren't what they used to be
Time slides by so carelessly

chorus x2
 5  5    5  5  5   -5 -4 
Someone is calling my name
 4    4   5    5  4   -4  4
From the back of the restaurant
  5  5   5   5  5  -5 -4
Someone is playing a game
 4  4   5     5   4  -4  -4  4
In the house that I grew up in
 5   5  5    5    5     5    -5-4
And someone will drive her around
 4     4   5    5      4   -4 4
Down the same streets that I did
  4      4    5     5     4  -4  4
Through the same streets that I did
  4      4    5     5     4  -4  4
Through the same streets that I did

chorus x2

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