Giving It All Away

Song: Giving it all away 
Artist: Roger Daltrey 
Composers: David Courtney & Leo Sayer
Album: Daltrey
Tabbed by: DJ
26th May 2013

C * = x32013    C7 = x32310   Dm7    = xx0211
C   = x32010    F  = 133211   Bb4    = x13341
Em  = 022000    C4 = x33010   Bbsus2 = x13311
G   = 320033    Bb = x13331

^ = Emphasise the beat

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[Intro]
     C *            C
||:  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  :||[x2]


[Verse 1]
   C                       Em
I paid all my dues, so I picked up my shoes,
   G                     C
I got up and walked a - way,
   C7      F             C
Oh, I was just a boy, I didn't know how to play,
                         ^           ^      ^
  C
Worked hard and failed,
    Em                  G               C
Now all I can say is I threw it all a - way,
    C7      F           C
Oh, I was just a boy, giving it all a - way,
                        ^        ^       ^
          F    C4       F
Sail a - way, sail a - way!


[Chorus]
Bb  C  F                   C
       Oo , well, I know better now,
         Bb        Bb4   Bb        F          F         Dm7 C
I know better now,      giving it all away! | /_/ /_/ /_/  / |
                                              ^ ^ ^ ^   ^  ^
F                   C
Oo , well, I know better now,
         Bb       Bb4   Bb        F
I know better now,     giving it all away!


[Link]
     Bb        Bbsus2   F
||:  /  /  /  /__/   |  /  /  /  /  :|| [x2]


[Verse 3]
      C                     Em
Went out in the world, too much for my nerves,
  G              C
Only myself to blame,
   C7      F            C
Oh, I was just a boy, nobody else to blame,
                        ^      ^      ^
      C                       Em
I've done all I can, now it's out of my hands,
  G                    C        C7      F
Stand on my head, and say... Oh, I was just a boy,
  C                              F    C4       F
Giving it all a - way, sail a - way, sail a - way!
  ^        ^       ^

[Chorus]
Bb  C  F                        C
       Oo - oo , well, I know better now,
         Bb        Bb4   Bb        F          F         Dm7 C
I know better now,      giving it all away! | /_/ /_/ /_/  / |
                                              ^ ^ ^ ^   ^  ^
F                        C
Oo - oo , well, I know better now,
         Bb        Bb4   Bb        F          F         Dm7 C
I know better now,      giving it all away! | /_/ /_/ /_/  / |
                                              ^ ^ ^ ^   ^  ^ 

[Chorus]
F                            C
Oo - oo -oo , yeah, I know better now,
         Bb        Bb4   Bb        F          F         Dm7 C
I know better now,      giving it all away! | /_/ /_/ /_/  / |
                                              ^ ^ ^ ^   ^  ^
F                            C
Oo - oo - oo, yeah, I know better now,
         Bb        Bb4   Bb       F
I know better now,     giving it all away!


[Coda]
 Bb           Bb       F           Bb           Bb       F
Just a boy, giving it all away!   Just a boy, giving it all away!
       Bb           Bb       F          Bb           Bb   F
I was just a boy, giving it all away!  Just a boy!