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Song title:      Escape
Original Album:	 Partners In Crime

Words and Music by Rupert Holmes
Copyright © 1979 Infinity Records 
Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Notes:
The tabbed figures show how the basic riffs are played.
They are also played in the verses and choruses.

Chords:
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    Dm  xx0231 or x57765
Am x02210 or 577555           C   x32010 or x35553
G  320033 or 355433           Dm7 xx0211 or x57565


[play: 4/4| F Am G | F Dm | C G Dm7 | C Gm |
          | F Am G | F Dm | C Em7 F | C |]

  F           Am          G        F               Dm
|-1-----------5-------5---3------|-1---------------5--------------|
|-1-----------5-------5---3------|-1---------------6--------------|
|-2-----------5-------5---4------|-2---------------7--------------|
|-3-----------7-------7---5------|-3---------------7--------------|
|-3-----------7-------7---5------|-3---------------5--------------|
|-1-----------5-------5---3------|-1------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  C           G           Dm7      C               Gm
|-3-----------3-------3---5------|-3---------------3--------------|
|-5-----------3-------3---6------|-5---------------3--------------|
|-5-----------4-------4---5------|-5---------------3--------------|
|-5-----------5-------5---7------|-5---------------5--------------|
|-3-----------5-------5---5------|-3---------------5--------------|
|-------------3-------3----------|-----------------3--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  F           Am          G        F               Dm
|-1-----------5-------5---3------|-1---------------5--------------|
|-1-----------5-------5---3------|-1---------------6--------------|
|-2-----------5-------5---4------|-2---------------7--------------|
|-3-----------7-------7---5------|-3---------------7--------------|
|-3-----------7-------7---5------|-3---------------5--------------|
|-1-----------5-------5---3------|-1------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  C           Em7         F        C
|-3-----------7-------7---1------|-3------------------------------|
|-5-----------8-------8---1------|-5------------------------------|
|-5-----------7-------7---2------|-5------------------------------|
|-5-----------9-------9---3------|-5------------------------------|
|-3-----------7-------7---3------|-3------------------------------|
|-------------------------1------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE1:
Chords:
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    Dm  xx0231 or x57765    Em7 022030 or x79787
Am x02210 or 577555           C   x32010 or x35553
G  320033 or 355433           Dm7 xx0211 or x57565

                | F Am G | F             Dm       | C   G Dm7 | C
I was tired of my lady,      we'd been together too long

            Gm  | F Am G | F      Dm      | C Em7 F | C
Like a worn out recording    of a favourite song

          Gm          | F Am G | F            Dm     | C  G Dm7 | C
So, while she lay there sleepin',  I read the paper in bed

           Gm     | F Am G | F                Dm     | C  Em7 F | C |
And in the personal columns,   there was this letter I read


CHORUS1:
Chords:
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    Dm  xx0231 or x57765
Am x02210 or 577555           C   x32010 or x35553
G  320033 or 355433           Dm7 xx0211 or x57565

                 | F Am G | F             Dm          | C G Dm7 | C 
If you like Pina Coladas      and getting caught in the rain,

          Gm     | F Am G | F        Dm        | C Em7 F | C 
If you're not into yoga,      if you have half a brain,

            Gm           | F Am G | F        Dm         | C G Dm7 | C
If you like making love at midnight   in the dunes of the cape,

        Gm             | F          Am G | F  Dm              | C Em7 F | C |
I'm the love that you've looked for,          write to me and escape.


[Guitar SOLO over these chords:]

| F Am G | F Dm | C G Dm7 | C  Gm
| F Am G | F Dm | C Em7 F | C |


VERSE2:
Chords:
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    Dm  xx0231 or x57765
Am x02210 or 577555           C   x32010 or x35553
G  320033 or 355433           Dm7 xx0211 or x57565

                        F Am G | F             Dm           | C G Dm7 | C 
I didn't think about my lady,      I know that sounds kind of mean

           Gm   | F Am G | F                     Dm             | C Em7 F | C
But me and my old lady       had fallen into the same old dull routine

     Gm           F Am G | F |            Dm     | C G Dm7 | C
So I wrote to the paper,       took out a personal ad

               Gm     | F Am G | F |             Dm        | C Em7 F | C |
And though I'm nobody's poet,       I thought it wasn't half bad


CHORUS2:
Chords:
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    Dm  xx0231 or x57765
Am x02210 or 577555           C   x32010 or x35553
G  320033 or 355433           Dm7 xx0211 or x57565

                   F Am G | F             Dm          | C G Dm7 | C
Yes, I like Pina Coladas      and getting caught in the rain,

        Gm      | F Am G     | F      Dm       C Em7 F | C
I'm not much into health-food,   I am into Champagne,

            Gm          | F Am G    | F 
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
                Dm         | C G Dm7 | C
and cut through all this red-tape

     Gm         | F Am G  | F             Dm       | C Em7 F | C |
In a bar called O'Malley's,   where we'll plan our escape.


[Guitar SOLO over these chords:]

| F Am G | F Dm | C G Dm7 | C  Gm
| F Am G | F Dm | C Em7 F | C |


VERSE3:
Chords:
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    Dm  xx0231 or x57765
Am x02210 or 577555           C   x32010 or x35553
G  320033 or 355433           Dm7 xx0211 or x57565


                     | F Am G | F          Dm          | C G Dm7 | C 
So, I waited with high hopes,     then she walked in the place

           Gm        | F Am G | F            Dm         | C Em7 F | C
I knew her smile in an instant,   I knew the curve of her face

          Gm       | F Am G | F         Dm            | C G Dm7 | C
It was my own lovely lady       and she said, "Oh, it's you!"

       Gm          | F Am G | F       Dm           | C Em7 F | C |
And we laughed for a moment     and I said, "I never knew..."


CHORUS3:
Chords:
F  x33211 or x8 10 10 10 8    Dm  xx0231 or x57765
Am x02210 or 577555           C   x32010 or x35553
G  320033 or 355433           Dm7 xx0211 or x57565

                    | F Am G | F             Dm          | C G Dm7 | C
That you liked Pina Coladas      and getting caught in the rain,

        Gm        | F Am G | F         Dm         | C Em7 F | C
And the feel of the ocean,     and the taste of Champagne

            Gm           | F Am G | F        Dm         | C G Dm7 | C
If you like making love at midnight   in the dunes of the cape,

           Gm           | F Am G    | F           Dm     | C Em7 F | C |
You're the love that I've looked for,   come with me and escape.


[play: 4/4| F Am G | F Dm | C G Dm7 | C Gm
          | F Am G | F Dm | C Em7 F | C |]


[repeat CHORUS1]

[repeat CHORUS2 and fade]