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Lowdown Tab

by Boz Scaggs


                               "Lowdown"
                       (Boz Scaggs - David Paich)

Intro:

	Em9      A13      [4X; flute enters 3rd time]
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Verse 1:

	                         
	Baby's into runnin' 'round, hangin' with the crowd
	                                  
	Puttin' your business in the street, talkin' out loud
	                                      
	Sayin' he's bought her this and that and how much you done spent
	                           
	I swear she must believe it's all heaven-sent
	                 
	Hey boy, you better bring the chick around
	                         
	To the sad, sad truth, the dirty lowdown
	                                     
	(Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who)
	Taught her how to talk like that
	                                     
	(Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who)
	Gave her that big idea

	            [2X]
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Verse 2:

	Nothin' you can't handle, nothin' you ain't got
	Put your money on the table and drive it off the lot
	Turn on that old lovelight, turn a maybe to a yes
	Same old schoolboy game got you into this mess
	Hey son, you better get on back to town
	Face the sad old truth, the dirty lowdown
	(Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who)
	Put those ideas in your head
	(Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who)

Instrumental break:

	          -5/   
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Partial verse:

	            [2X]
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	Come on back down to earth, son
	                    ()
	Dig the low-low-low-low-lowdown

Guitar solo:

	           [4X]
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Verse 3:

	You ain't got to be bad, got to be cold
	This dog-eat-dog business is surely gettin' old
	Got to have a jones for this, jones for that
	This runnin' with the joneses, boy, it just ain't where it's at
	You gonna come back around
	To the sad, sad truth, the dirty lowdown
	(Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who)
	Got you thinkin' like that
	(Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wonder-wonder-wonder-wonder who)

[repeat instrumental break]

Coda [repeat to fade]:

	                               
	I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder, who...


-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers