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Ebony And Ivory

Paul Mccartney

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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:42:05 +0100 (BST)
From: Rev Linda Slug 
Subject: Ebony And Ivory

Ebony And Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
>From "Tug Of War" by Paul McCartney - released 1982 by EMI records.

C	Bb	C


F         Gm  C
Ebony and ivory
       F                 Gm    C
Live together in perfect harmony
        F                Gm
Side by side on my piano keyboard
C	F
Oh Lord why don't we?

C	Bb	C

F
We all know
     Dm		    C        Bb       F
That people are the same wherever you go
			 C
There is good and bad in everyone
   Eb            Eb-dim  D		    Gm
We learn to live when we learn to give each other

What we need to survive
  C
Together alive

F         Gm  C
Ebony and ivory
       F                 Gm    C
Live together in perfect harmony
        F                Gm
Side by side on my piano keyboard
C       F	  Dsus 	D
Oh Lord why don't we?

Solo: [G  Am  D  G  Am  D  G  Am  D  G  Bb  C]

Chords:    G            Am   D         G            Am   D      G

{----0-3-2---------------------3-2-2-0--------0------------0-3-2------|
{--3-------3----0-1-3-0------3---------3----0---3-0------3-------3----|
{-----------------------0---------------------------0-----------------|
{---------------------------------------------------------------------|
{---------------------------------------------------------------------|
{---------------------------------------------------------------------|

             Am   D         G            Bb        C       F

|-------------------3-2-2-0------------------------------3S5----------}
|--0-1-3----------3---------3----0--------------1-3----1--------------}
|--------4-2-0---------------------2-0--------3-----------------------}
|--------------------------------------0-3----------------------------}
|---------------------------------------------------------------------}
|---------------------------------------------------------------------}

F
We all know
     Dm             C        Bb       F
That people are the same wherever you go
                         C
There is good and bad in everyone
   Eb            Eb-dim  D                  Gm
We learn to live when we learn to give each other

What we need to survive
  C
Together alive

F         Gm  C
Ebony and ivory
       F                 Gm    C
Live together in perfect harmony
        F                Gm
Side by side on my piano keyboard
C       F         Dsus  D
Oh Lord why don't we?
	Gm		 C
Side by side on my piano keyboard
	F  		Gm  C
Oh Lord why don't we?

{F  Gm  C} repeat to fade.

Ebony
Ivory
Living in perfect harmony

Transcribed 3rd June 1996 by
David Linley 
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