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Song title:       Loose Tongue
Original Album:   Try Whistling This

Words and Music by Neil Finn and Jim Moginie
Copyright © 1998 Roundhead Music
Published by EMI Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
The album version has no intro. But Guitar Figure 1 is played in the song
and could be used as an intro if you want one. Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:

[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]

Guitar Figure 1

1
  D
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----7-------7-------7-------7---|-----7-------7-------7-------7---|
|-0-------0-------0-------0-------|-0-------0-------0-------0-------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

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


3
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-7---7-------7-------9-----------|-11--12------11------------------|
|-0---0-------0-------0-----------|-0---0-------0-------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

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


5
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-7---7-------7-------5-----------|-5---5-------5-------4-----------|
|-0---0-------0-------0-----------|-0---0-------0-------0-----------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

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


[repeat bars 3-6]



VERSE1:
Chords:
Dsus2  xx0230    Dsus2/A  x00230
G6/D   xx0030    G        320033
Cadd9  x32030


| Dsus2     G6/D | Dsus2  Cadd9        |
    Hand me down     my   favourite coat,

| Dsus2              G6/D   | Dsus2   Cadd9       |
    show what you're made of,   sur - prise us both

| Dsus2        G6/D | Dsus2  Cadd9    |
    Fly in the night,   slow down town,

| Dsus2/A         |          Cadd9           G   |
    brake too fast, bring us round, bring us round



CHORUS1:
Chords:
G    320033    A7sus4 x02030
D9   x54530    Dsus2  xx0230
A    x02220    Cadd9  x32030


| (G)                       | D9 |
     And our finest days have come.

| G                    | D9 |
  Summer nights go on so long,

| G                          | A |
    so high I might as well be gone.

| (A)             A7sus4   A   |               A7sus4         A     |
      And you are mag-nifi-cent, I can see you with   my eyes closed.

| (A)                 A7sus4       | Dsus2 G | Dsus2 Cadd9 |
      You're the last one    stand_i_ing



VERSE2:
Chords:
Dsus2  xx0230    Dsus2/A  x00230
G6/D   xx0030    G        320033
Cadd9  x32030    D9       x54530


| Dsus2          G6/D | Dsus2    Cadd9            |
    Lean and hun-gry      with a fire in your eyes,

| Dsus2             G6/D | Dsus2     Cadd9              Dsus2 |
    I'll play catch up,      you can show me where's it at

|               G    |                    | D9
  I'll go along with   anything you want to do



CHORUS2:
Chords:
G    320033    A7sus4 x02030
D9   x54530    Dsus2  xx0230
A    x02220    Cadd9  x32030


| G                  | D9    | G                          | A   |
  Every day I'm making ground,   so high I might as well be gone.

|             A7sus4   A   |                   A7sus4       A    |
  And you are mag-nifi-cent, and I can see you with my eyes closed

|                     A7sus4       A    |
  When you're walking in  -  to my house,

|                  A7sus4         Dsus2 | % |
  I'll be the last one    stand_i_ing

| (Dsus2)                Cadd9     |
     If you want you can get   there.



BRIDGE:
Chords:
Dsus2  xx0230    G   320033
Cadd9  x32030    D9  x54530


| Dsus2          |       Cadd9     | Dsus2            |
    Night vision   and I find your     white doves land

|         Cadd9          | G                          | D9  |
  in your treasure towers,   and I promise that I won't back



CHORUS2:
Chords:
G    320033    A7sus4 x02030
D9   x54530    Dsus2  xx0230
A    x02220    Cadd9  x32030

| G                  | D9    | G                          | A   |
  Every day I'm making ground,   so high I might as well be gone.

|             A7sus4   A   |                   A7sus4       A    |
  And you are mag-nifi-cent, and I can see you with my eyes closed

|                     A7sus4       A    |
  When you're walking in  -  to my house,

|                  A7sus4         Dsus2 | % |
  I'll be the last one    stand_i_ing


|             A7sus4   A   |                   A7sus4       A    |
  And you are mag-nifi-cent, and I can see you with my eyes closed

|                     A7sus4       A    |
  When you're walking in  -  to my house,

|                  A7sus4         Dsus2
  I'll be the last one    stand_i_ing


[end on an arpeggiated Dsus2]