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Why D’You Stand So Close To That Man Last Night? – guitar tab

Why D'You Stand So Close To That Man Last Night? | guitar tab
By Pete Townshend, August 1984 
>From eelpie.com, October 2001
Written by Pete Townshend ©2001 Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.

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Transcribed previously by litgo@aol.com  (2002-01-18)     Whotabs               
New Transcription by Big T.  (2007-06-15)                 www.thewho.net/whotabs

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Tuning: EADGAE
(Note: I don't know if Pete's guitar is actually tuned this way, but it will 
sound better)

Capo on 5

D          x57755
Gsus2/D    x557 10 5
C          8x5578
G          xx57 10 7
A7         5756xx
D5         x5x7xx
D/C        857xxx

Note: Lyrics approximate

Some things that can be heard through out the song (the timing isn't tabbed):

E| 5 5      5 |  
A| 5 5 8^p5 5 |
G| 7 7      7 | 
D| 7 7      7 | 
A| 5 5      5 | 
E|            | 

E| 5 5  7  5 |
A| 5 5 (5) 5 |
G| 7 7     7 |
D| 7 7     7 |
A| 5 5     5 |
E|           |


D        Gsus2/D

D   Gsus2/D                      D          Gsus2/D
I didn't know a lover'd hurt for lovin' you
      D Gsus2/D                       D          
Oooh, I didn't know the luck for ever lovin' you
            C     G          D
There never was a lovin' you get, you just get down
        C          G           D
But you don't mind telling me around
C             G               D                           C         G
I was seatin' sentinel with a Love-In with the bomb going high...


I'm tellin' lots of secrets to lovin' you
I fake it hold my back up to my lovin' you
I don't really love her, sittin' hate pray for her
I don't know what you did to make me over
I love lovin', gonna drive tonight
                                         A7
I'm goin' soon as you wild tonight

D          Gsus2/D                       D             Gsus2/D
Hey, lady, yeah, you better break me down
D          Gsus2/D                        D             Gsus2/D
Hey, pixy chick, you gonna break me down

I looked oh so sacred on the bed tonight
Hmm, I know you what you sayin', but you great tonight
Alone at last
Alone at last
We're alone at last

Why d'you stand so close to that man last night?
Oh, why d'you hear me 'fore you tune your glass that night?
I got your memory caught in my mind and you 
You'll know I'll sit before a second time
I will zip it in a much as disease that you do know
Tell me and turn any other way

Why d'you stand so close to that man last night?
Why d'you snookum and stink-o to that man last night?

C        G       D
  We're alone at last
C        G       D
  We're alone at last
C        G       D
  We're alone at last
C                    D      
  So you can tell me
D5        D5                     D5       D/C  D
Why d'you stand so close to that ugly man last night?

Outro:
E|
B|                        5
G|                        7
D| 8^p5                 5 7 
A|      8^p5        7/9   5
E|           7^p5 5


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