Song: I can't let Maggie go
Artist: Honeybus
Composer: Pete Dello
Tabbed by: DJ
3rd Dec 2013
CAPO: 3rd fret (Will then sound in the key of Eb)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
C = x32010 D = xx0232 Ebdim = xx1212 E = 022100
G/B = x20033 Gmaj7/B = x20032 Dm = xx0231 E7 = 022130
Am = x02210 Fmaj7 = xx3210 F = xx3211 D7 = xx0212
Am/G = 302210 G = 320033 C/B = x2x010 Dm/F = xx3231
Csus4 = x33010
Live 12 string acoustic version of the song, sung a semi-tone lower in D
(Capo at 2nd fret) by original Honeybus member Colin Hare, at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRF4Bkyrx9s
[N.B. he misses out Verse 3, and goes straight to the final Verse.]
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[Intro]
C G/B Am Am/G
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D Gmaj7/B Fmaj7 G
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[Verse 1]
C Ebdim Dm G C Ebdim Dm G
She makes me laugh, she makes me cry, with a twinkle of her eye,
F G C C/B Am Am/G
She flies like a bird in the sky------------,
F G C C/B Am Am/G
She flies like a bird, and I wish that she was mine,
F G C E E7 Am Am/G
She flies like a bird, oh, me, oh, my-------, I see, I sigh,
D7 F Dm/F Csus4 C F Dm/F
Now I know I can't let Maggie go-------! | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 2]
C Ebdim Dm G C Ebdim Dm G
We walk here, and we walk there, people stop, and people stare,
F G C C/B Am Am/G
'Cause she flies like a bird in the sky-------------,
F G C C/B Am Am/G
She flies like a bird, and I wish that she was mine,
F G C E E7 Am Am/G
She flies like a bird, oh, me, oh, my-------, I see, I sigh,
D7 F Dm/F C G/B Am Am/G
Now I know I can't let Maggie go-------! | / / / / | / / / / |
[Bridge]
D Gmaj7/B Fmaj7
Oo-ee, oo-ee, oo-ee, oo-ee! Oo-ee, oo-ee, oo-ee, oo-ee! | / / / / |
G C F
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[Verse 3]
G F G C C/B Am Am/G
Whoa, she flies like a bird in the sky-------------,
F G C C/B Am Am/G
She flies like a bird, and I wish that she was mine,
F G C E E7 Am Am/G
She flies like a bird, oh, me, oh, my-------, I see, I sigh,
D7 F Dm/F C G/B Am
Now I know I can't let Maggie go------! | / / / / | / / / / |
[Verse 4]
Am/G F G C C/B Am Am/G
Whoa, yes, she flies like a bird in the sky-------------,
F G C C/B Am Am/G F G
She flies like a bird, and I wish that she was mine, she flies like a bird,
(Oh, yes, I wish that she was mine!)
C E E7 Am Am/G
Oh, me, oh, my--------, I see, I sigh,
D7 F Dm/F Csus4 C F Dm/F
Now I know I can't let Maggie go-------! | / / / / | / / / / |
Csus4 C F Dm/F C
Oo--------, oo-------, oo--------, oo--------!
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