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I Am Afraid – guitar crd

I Am Afraid | guitar crd
By Pete Townshend
>From Psychoderelict, 1993 (non-dialogue version)
Written by Pete Townshend ©1993 Eel Pie Publishing, Ltd.

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transcribed by                             Whotabs                    
litgo@aol.com          1999-12-24          www.thewho.net/whotabs     
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[Note: patterns are approximate]

[intro]           [verse]             [chorus]           [interlude]
D      xx0232     Bm     7xx77x       Gmaj7  xx0032      Am7   x0555x
G      3x0033     Bmadd4 x7x77x       Em7    020030      
Asus4  x02230     Gmaj7  x5577x       Bm     x(2)4432    
A      x02220     Bmii   xx477x         
Aadd9  x02200     Bmadd4 x(2)4430       


[synth intro]
|D   G   |Asus4  A  |D    G   |Asus4  |A   |Aadd9  |

[chorus; main pattern]
Gmaj7         Em7    |Bm
    I stand beside you, I face the future
Gmaj7          Em7  |Bm
    I'll admit to you I am afraid

I am afraid as I stand beside you
I have denied you, I am afraid

Bm 

[verse]
Bm                 |Bmadd4
  I am not drunk now, I am not pilled down
Gmaj7                  |Bmii
  My window's wound down, I am not brainwashed

I am not running, I am not hiding
My bet's still riding, I am afraid

                        x4
||:Gmaj7  Em7  |Bm     :||Bm     |

I swing you high-o, I swing you low-a
I see your eye-o, I see your grow-a
I hear you crying, your brother's dying
Be no more lying, I am afraid

[interlude]
|F  Dm |C  Am7 |F Bb |Ab  C# |F# Eb |Bb Bm |    |

I am afraid as I stand beside you
I have denied you, I am afraid
I stand beside you, I face the future
I'll admit to you I am afraid

By my religion I stand here naked
I cannot fake it, with God as witness
My little children who wait for feeding
I watch you bleeding, I am afraid

I am afraid as I stand beside you
I have denied you, I am afraid
I stand beside you, I face the future
I'll admit to you I am afraid

[outro]
||:Bm    A|Bm     A:||

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litgo@aol.com

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