Song: How long
Artist: Ace
Composer: Paul Carrack
Album: Five-a-side
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
30th Oct 2015
CAPO: 1st fret (Sounds in the key of Ab) to match the record,
or sing it a semi-tone lower without the capo, as Paul Carrack
has done when playing the song solo.
N.B.
Please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website might
automatically suggest and use the typed shapes shown below:
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
G6/A = x05430 Bbm7 = 686666 Em7 = 022030
A = x02220 Bm7 = 797777 Bm = x24432
A * = x07650 F#m7 = 242222 A/B = x22220
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[Intro]
[Simulation of bass - mute the bridge with side of palm]
e |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
B |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
G |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
D |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
A |--0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0----------|
E |------------|-----------|-----------|---------0-3-0-3-|
e |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
B |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
G |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
D |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
A |--0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0----|-0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0----------|
E |------------|---------0-|-----------|---------0-3-0-3-|
G6/A G6/A A A G6/A G6/A A
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
G6/A G6/A A A G6/A G6/A A * Bbm7
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |
[Chorus]
Bm7 F#m7 Em7 F#m7
How long------- has this been going on? | / / / / |
(How long------------------- going on?)
Bm7 F#m7 Em7
How long------- has this been going on?
(How long------------------- going on?)
[Verse 1]
F#m7 G6/A A
Well, your friends with their fancy per - suasion,
G6/A A
Don't ad - mit that it's part of a scheme,
G6/A A
But I can't help but have my sus - picions,
G6/A A
'Cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem!
[Verse 2]
G6/A A
And you said you was never in - tending,
G6/A A
To break up our scene in this way,
G6/A A
But there ain't any use in pre - tending,
G6/A A * Bbm7
It could happen to us any day!
[Chorus]
Bm7 F#m7 Em7 F#m7
How long------- has this been going on? | / / / / |
(How long------------------- going on?)
Bm7 F#m7 Em7
How long------- has this been going on?
(How long------------------- going on?)
[Bridge -Guitar solo]
Bm A/B
||: / / / / | / / / / :|| [Repeat x8]
[Verse 3]
G6/A A
Oh -oh, your friends with their fancy per - suasion,
G6/A A
Don't ad - mit that it's part of a scheme,
G6/A A
But I can't help but have my sus - picions,
G6/A A
'Cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem!
[Verse 4]
G6/A A
Oh, you said you was never in - tending,
G6/A A
To break up our scene in this way,
G6/A A
But there ain't any use in pre - tending,
G6/A A * Bbm7
It could happen to us any day!
[Chorus & Coda]
Bm7 F#m7 Em7 F#m7
And how long------- has this been going on? | / / / / |
(How long------------------- going on?)
Bm7 F#m7 Em7 F#m7
Oh, how long------- has this been going on? How long?
(How long------------------- going on?)
Bm7 F#m7 Em7
How long------- has this been going on?
(How long------------------- going on?)
F#m7 Bm7 F#m7 Em7 F#m7
How long has this... how long has this been going on? How long?
(How long--------------------- going on?)
Bm7 F#m7 Em7 F#m7
How long------- has this been going on? | / / / / |
(How long------------------- going on?)
Bm7 F#m7 Em7 F#m7 Bm7
Oh, how long------- has this been going on? How---- long-----?
(How long------------------- going on?)
