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- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 20:13:12 -0500 (EST)
- From: Glen Norman Pavan <senomar@UDel.Edu>
- Subject: cheap_trick: on_top_of_the_world.tab
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- artist: Cheap Trick
- title: On Top Of The World
- album: Heaven Tonight
- tuning: standard
-
- Rick Nielsen has said this to be one of his favorite Trick songs
- F#/G means slide up
-
- intro:
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- E--0-0-2-0-3-0-2-0-3-0-2-0-3-0-2-- play 12 times
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- chorus
- E
- you're on top of the world you're on
- A
- top of the world and you can't get any higher
- C
- on top of the world on top of the world tonight
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- D----5-4-2--------
- A----------5-2----
- E --------------5-
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- verse
- F#/G F#/G F#/G F#/G
- It wasn't easy it was hard as hell
- B
- You didn't get luck in a wishing well
- A
- You never worked so hard had so much pain wouldn't change
- F# F
- for anything
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- second verse
- Learned love from a movie screen
- He was tough she was wild at fifteen
- Hated school and had no dreams
- Wasn't going very far
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- third verse
- F#/G F#/G F#/G F#/G
- then he got religion and she got a job
- B
- It's on her back it's in his job
- A C
- And it costs lots of money money oh
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- intro four times
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- chorus
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- fourth verse
- Break down nearly every day
- Should'a know I couldn't get away
- Got lucky with the girl next door
- she was lonely and didn't care
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- fifth verse
- She was young she was dark she was fair
- Wrapped herself around you with her stare
- You'd explode if she touched you there
- touched you there touched you there
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- third verse
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- chorus twice
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- outro: repeat to fade
- G
- Can you hear me
- B
- Can you show me
- A C
- You're on top of the world tonight
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- questions comments to senomar@bach.udel.edu
- -I'm here, I'm queer, I play 5-string bass
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