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I Do Tab

by Paul Heaton


Capo 1st fret

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In the 60s and the 70s
                    
Before we'd even met
                        
I took those pin-ups to my heart
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Cause I hadn't found you yet

                             
In back of cab in the streets of Rome
                    
I drunkly called a name
                    
On 13th floor in Paris hotel
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I looked north west in vain

                    
In bus shelter and phone box
                           
Whilst the piss ran round my feet 
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I caught wrong bus, rang wrong number
                        
Cause my life was incomplete

                      
So in case you think it wrong to ask
                  
In case I don't ask you
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In case it may just cross your mind
                  
In case it don't, I do
                     
In case you think it's up to me
               
In case I need a clue
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In case you want that bended knee
                   
In case you don't, I do

       

                      
In pick-up truck on dusty road
                     
The wheel your only friend
                          
What kept that big wheel turning was
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the thought of you at end

                    
On desert highway hitch-hiking
                   
Thumbing from A to B
                    
I knew not where I headed
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Before my map to thee

                         
At foot of the Alps in Switzerland
                         
I yodelled through the rain
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And it sort of kept me going
                                
To think you'd probably do the same

                         
So in case you think it wrong to ask
                   
In case I don't ask you
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In case it may just cross your mind
                   
In case it don't, I do
                      
In case you think it's up to me
                
In case I need a clue
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In case you want that bended knee
                    
In case you don't, I do

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Now again we're miles apart
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We talk but do not touch
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Water, food and alcohol
                   
I miss them half as much
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Cause halfway up that mountain pass
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No compass or no guide
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Still don't stand me steady for
                
When you I'm not beside

                 
So if you need a shelter
                    
I guess I'll need one too
                     
If you want the same address
                   
Even if you don't, I do
                   
Even if you don't, I do
                   
Even if you don't, I do
                   
Even if you don't, I do
                   
Even if you don't, I do
                   
Even if you don't, I do