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Starting Over

Raspberries

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:50:12 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers 
Subject: ./r/raspberries/starting_over.crd

                            "Starting Over"
                             (Eric Carmen)

Intro:

	piano (simplified) arr. for guitar [2X]:

	 G        D/G    CaddD/G
	 v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
	-------7---5-----|-3---------------|
	-0-----8---7-----|-3---------------|
	-----0-0---7-----|-0---------------|
	---0-------5-----|-2---------------|
	-----------------|-----------------|
	-3---------------|-3---------------|

Verse 1 (piano and strings only):

	G                       Bm/F#
	Used to feel so fuckin' optimistic
	G7/F            CaddD/E
	Till she said goodbye
	Am11         G/B  CaddD      Am11        G
	x02033     x20033 x32033
	Never thought a    love like ours would die
	    (G)     D/G  CaddD/G
             /  /  /  /    /  /  /  /
	(...die)

	Told myself I'd never love another
	All I want is friends
	But when we met I felt it all again
	    (G)  D/GC/G    G
             /  /  /  /    /  /  /  /
	(...again)

Chorus:

	             C       C/B   Am7  Am7/D    G   D/F# Em7
	Though I am starting over under cloudy skies
	  G/D  C       C/B      Am7            G/B        C   A7/C#  D
	I say hello to love I'm seeing through different eyes
	    G     C    C/B       Am7       D7
	And if I had a chance to make one wish and
	G       B7/D#      Em    G7/D
	Know it would come true
	     C    G/B Am7 Am7/D     G
	I'd start all   over  with you

	1: repeat intro

	2,3: G      D/G   CaddD/G  G
	     /  /  /  /      /  /  /  /

Verse 2 (band enters):

	Every evening I would watch the sunset
	End another day
	Let the nighttime wash my blues away

	Buried my romantic inclination
	Deep inside of me
	'Til I fell for you immoderately

[repeat chorus]

Bridge:

	Eb  Bb/D  Ab/Gb   Db/Cb
	I remember all the good times
	Eb/Bb   Bb/Ab             CaddD/G
	 And the bad times spent together
	Eb    Bb/D  Ab/Gb   Db/Cb
	Why remember all the old times
	Eb/Bb   Bb/Ab               CaddD/G
	When the new times look much better
	     Am11   D
	Much better

[instrumental over verse chords]

[repeat chorus]

Coda:

	(repeat last three lines of chorus)

	G      D/G  CaddD/G       [2X]
	/  /  /  /    /  /  /  /
	2: With you...

	string/winds tag:

	G      D/G      C   Bb  C  D
	/  /  /  /      /  /  /  /  /  /

	Badd9     B     F#add9
	  1
	79187x  79987x  24632x
	  /   /   /       /


-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers