Song: The right thing to do
Artist: Carly Simon
Composer: Carly Simon
Album: No secrets
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' at ultimateGuitar.com)
2nd June 2013
Cadd9 = x32030 F#m7 = 242222 Dm7 = xx0211 C7 = x35353
Fmaj7 = 133210 B7 = x24242 Dm7/G = 300211 Bb = x13331
Dm9 = xx0210 Em7 = 022030 G/C = x30003 F = 133211
F/G = 303211 A7sus4 = x02030 Am9 = x05500 F/A = x03211
Am7 = x02213 Dmaj7 = xx0222 Gm7 = 353333 Em/G = 322000
C = x32010 Cmaj7 = x32000
^ = Emphasise the beat
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[Intro]
There's...
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B|--0--1------------|---------------------|
G|----------0-------|-----0---------------|
D|-------------2----|--3------0-----------|
A|------------------|---------------0-----|
E|------------------|------------3-----3--|
[Verse 1]
Cadd9 Fmaj7 Dm9 F/G Am7
...nothing you can do to turn me away, nothing anyone can say,
F#m7 B7 Em7
You're with me now, and, as long as you stay,
A7sus4 Dmaj7
Loving you's the right thing to do---------,
(Loving you's the right thing!)
Dm7 Fmaj7 Dm7/G
Loving you's the right thing!
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[Verse 2]
Oh, oh-oh, oh, I...
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B|--------------------|
G|--------------------|
D|---------0----------|
A|------0-------------|
E|--3----------3---3--|
Cadd9 Fmaj7
...know you've had some bad luck with ladies before,
Dm9 F/G Am7
They drove you, or you drove them, crazy,
F#m7 B7 Em7
But, more im - portant is I know you're the one, and I'm sure...
A7sus4 Dmaj7
...Loving you's the right thing to do----------,
(Loving you's the right thing!)
Dm7 Fmaj7 Dm7/G
Loving you's the right thing!
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[Bridge]
Oh, oh-oh, and it...
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B|--------------------|
G|--------------------|
D|---------0----------|
A|------0-------------|
E|--3----------3---3--|
Dm7 Dm7 G/C G/C
...used to be, for a while-----,
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Am9 Gm7 C
That the river flowed right to my door,
Dm7 Dm7 G/C G/C
Making me... just a little too free,
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Am9 Gm7 C7 F
But now the river doesn't seem to stop here any - more!
Bb F/A F Em/G
e|--1----1----1----0----|-------------------|
B|--3----1----1----0----|-------------------|
G|--3----2----2----0----|----------2--0-----|
D|--3----3----3----2----|---2--0------------|
A|--1----0----3----2----|-------------------|
E|------------1----3----|----------------3--|
[Verse 3]
Cadd9 Fmaj7
Hold me in your hands like a bunch of flowers,
Dm9 F/G Am7
(A bunch of flowers!) Set me moving to your sweetest song,
F#m7 B7 Em7
And I know what I... think I've known all along,
A7sus4 Dmaj7
Loving you's the right thing to do---------,
(Loving you's the right thing!)
[Verse 4]
Dm7 Fmaj7 Dm7/G Cadd9
Loving you's the right thing, loving you's the right thing to do,
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Fmaj7 Cmaj7
Is the right thing to do,
Fmaj7 Cadd9
Nothing you can ever do will turn me away from you,
Fmaj7 Cmaj7
I love you now, and I love you now,
Fmaj7 Cadd9
Even though you're ten thousand miles away,
Fmaj7 Cmaj7
I'll love you tomorrow, as I love you today,
Fmaj7 Cadd9
I'm in love---, ba--------by,
Fmaj7 Cmaj7
I'm in love with you, ba---------by,
[Coda]
Fmaj7 Cadd9
Oh, oh, hoh-----! Oh, oh - oh, oh---!
(The right thing to do---!)
Fmaj7 Cmaj7
Oh, oh, hoh-----! Oh, oh - oh, oh---!
(The right thing to do---!)
Fmaj7 Cadd9 Fmaj7
Oh, oh, hoh-----! Oh, oh - oh, oh---! Let's close now!
(The right thing to do---!)
Cmaj7
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