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Kids! Do You Want Kids

Kids! Do You Want Kids
By Pete Townshend, 1967
>From The Who Sell Out - Super Deluxe Edition, 2021
Written by Pete Townshend ©2020 Polydor Ltd. (UK)

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transcribed by             2021-03-01          Whotabs                          
litgo@aol.com                                  www.thewho.net/whotabs           
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Can be played in standard or tuned down 1-1/2 steps (C#) (C# F# B E G# C#).
Voicings     Standard             C# tuning
A             x0222x               x32010  
B5            x244xx               x0023x  
B             x2444x               xx0232  
Bsus          x24400             (3)x0233  
E             022100               3x0033  
F#            24432x               x02220  
F#(E)         04432x               3x2220  
C#m           x46654               x79987  
Abm           466444               799777  
D             xx0232               x33211  

[intro]
A    B5   A   B5   A [x2]

        B             (Bsus4)   B 
You can run miles and breathe easy

        (Bsus4)     B      (Bsus4)   B       E     F#
Feel the cool fresh air and least of all you can't see[?]

Do you want kids, wanna see your kids, kids
If you do you better come out of the mist, kids

     C#m                Abm
That love affair with a cigarette
     A                     E
Will end on the rocks baby you can bet
       C#               Abm
Better smoke as many as you can get
            A                        D      A           E
Before your lungs are locked and you end in debt to yourself

[repeat intro]

Do you want kids, wanna see your kids, kids
If you do you better come out of the mist kids

             F#   
Come on out
F#     F#(E)  F#
[repeat intro]

         B            Bsus4 B
Well the power can be [?]   up
          B                          E        F#
You can't help nobody else until you help yourself


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