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Song title:      Stayin' Alive
Original Album:	 Saturday Night Fever (Official Movie Soundtrack)

Words and Music by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb
Copyright © 1977 RSO Records
Published by BMG Music Publishing Ltd

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
The song is in the key of Fm but slap a capo on 1 and you can play easy open
chords. Chords and tab are relative to capo.


Key to tab
----------
h  - hammer-on
p  - pull-off
b  - bend
r  - release
/  - slide-up
\  - slide down
~  - vibrato
_  - tied note

V  - arpeggiate chord




INTRO:

Rhythm guitar:
  Fm                                                                  A
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------5-----------------------|---------5-----------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------5-----------------------|---------5-----------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------6-----------------------|---------6-----------------------|
|-------5-------------------------|-----------------------------5---|-7---------------x-6---x-5-------|-7-------------5---5---x-7-------|
|-5h7---------5---------------5---|-------5-------------5---7-------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------7---5h7-----|-5h7-x-----x-5---7---------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

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




Rhythm guitar:
  Fm
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-------5-------------------------|-----------------------------5---|
|-5h7---------5---------------5---|-------5-------------5---7-------|
|---------------------7---5h7-----|-5h7-x-----x-5---7---------------|

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

                                                        Well, you can...




VERSE1:
Chords:
Em  x79987 or 022000
D   x57775 or xx0232


            | Em                                | D
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man,

 | Em
No time to talk

  | %                                  | D                 | Em
And music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around since I was born




PRE-CHORUS1:
Chords:
A  577655 or x02220


           | A                     | %
But now it's all right, that's OK,   you may lok the other way

| %                          | %
  We can try to understand The New York Times effect on man




CHORUS:
Chords:
Em   x79987 or 022000
D    x57775 or xx0232
Bm7  797777 or x24232


| Em
  Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother,

     | %
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive,

| %
  Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin',

  | %
I'm stayin' alive, stayin' alive,

| %             | %
  Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive, stayin' alive,


| %             | Em           | % | % 
  Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' ali________ive.



[play:]

Rhythm guitar:
  Bm7                               Em
|V2-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V3-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V2-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V4-------------------------------|-------5-------------------------|-----------------------------5---|
|V2-------------------------------|-5h7---------5---------------5---|-------5-------------5---7-------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------7---5h7-----|-5h7-x-----x-5---7---------------|

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

                                                                                         Well, now, I


VERSE2:
Chords:
Em  x79987 or 022000
D   x57775 or xx0232


         | Em                              | D                 | Em
Well, now, I get low and I get high and if I can't get either, I really trry

      | %                                | D               | Em 
Got the wings of heaven on my shoes, I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose



PRE-CHORUS2:
Chords:
A  577655 or x02220


            | A                        | %   
You know it's all right, it's okay, I'll live to see another day

| %                          | %
  We can try to understand The New York Times effect on man



[repeat CHORUS]



[then play:]

Rhythm guitar:
  Bm7                               Em
|V2-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V3-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V2-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V4-------------------------------|-------5-------------------------|-----------------------------5---|
|V2-------------------------------|-5h7---------5---------------5---|-------5-------------5---7-------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------7---5h7-----|-5h7-x-----x-5---7---------------|

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

                                                                                         Well, now, I


BRIDGE:
Chords:
A   577655 or x02220
Em  x79987 or 022000


| A                                                           | Em | %
    Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, somebody help me, yeah

| A
    Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, somebody help me, yeah

| A            | Em  | % |
    I'm stayin' alive




[repeat VERSE1]


PRE-CHORUS3:
Chords:
A  577655 or x02220


           | A                        | %   
And now it's all right, it's okay, I'll live to see another day

| %                          | %
  We can try to understand The New York Times effect on man



[repeat CHORUS]



[then play:]

Rhythm guitar:
  Bm7                               Em
|V2-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V3-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V2-------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|V4-------------------------------|-------5-------------------------|-----------------------------5---|
|V2-------------------------------|-5h7---------5---------------5---|-------5-------------5---7-------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------7---5h7-----|-5h7-x-----x-5---7---------------|

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



OUTRO:
Chords:
A   577655 or x02220
Em  x79987 or 022000


| A                                                           | Em | %
    Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, somebody help me, yeah

| A                                         | Em 
    Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah

| A            | Em  | % | %
    I'm stayin' ali________ive



[repeat]  [x3] 

[fade]