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Song: When the world is running down you make the best of what's still around Artist: The Police Composer: Sting Album: Zenyatta Mondatta Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' at ultimateGuitar.com) 8th Dec 2016 Copy and paste this link to hear the track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXYW7kZP6jc NOTE: Please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website might automatically suggest and use the typed shapes shown below: C9sus4 = x33333 D9sus4 = x55555 Em11 = x75755 E5 = xxxx-12-12 Please select a star rating for this tab, many thanks ======================================================================== [Intro]
||:C9sus4 / / / / | D9sus4 / / / / | Em11 / / / / | Em11 / / / / :||[x4] [Verse 1] C9sus4 Turn on my VCR, D9sus4 ...same one I've had for years, Em11 James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show,Em11 ...same tape I've had for years, C9sus4 I sit in my old car,D9sus4 ...same one I've had for years, Em11 This old battery's running down, it Em11ran for years and years!
[Verse 2]
C9sus4 Turn on the radio,D9sus4 ...the static hurts my ears, Em11 Tell me, where would I go? I Em11ain't been out in years, C9sus4 Turn on the stereo,D9sus4 ...it's played for years and years, Em11 An Otis Redding song, Em11 ...it's all I own!
[Chorus]
When the C9sus4world is running D9sus4down, You make the Em11best of what's still around, Em11 When the C9sus4world is running D9sus4down, You make the Em11best of what's still around! Em11
[Verse 3]
C9sus4 Plug in my M.C.I. D9sus4 ...to exercise my brain, Em11 Make records on my own, can't Em11go out in the rain, C9sus4 Pick up the telephone, D9sus4 ...I've listened here for years, Em11 No one to talk to me, I've Em11listened here for years!
[Chorus]
When the C9sus4world is running D9sus4down, You make the Em11best of what's still around, Em11 When the C9sus4world is a - running D9sus4down, You make the Em11best of what's still around! Em11 Woh -oh!
[Bridge] (The chord fades in, or use the riff at the bottom of the tab)
||: E5/ / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / :||[x4] [Verse 4] C9sus4 When I feel lonely here,D9sus4 ...don't waste my time with tears, Em11 I run 'Deep throat' again, it Em11ran for years and years, C9sus4 Don't like the food I eat, D9sus4 ...the cans are running out, Em11 Same food for years and years, I Em11hate the food I eat!
[Chorus]
When the C9sus4world is a - running D9sus4down, You make the Em11best of what's still around, Em11 When the C9sus4world is running D9sus4down, You make the Em11best of what's still around! Em11
[Chorus]
When the C9sus4world is running D9sus4down, You make the Em11best of what's still around, Em11 When the C9sus4world is running D9sus4down, You make the Em11best of what's still around! Em11 Woh -oh!
[Break]
||: C9sus4 / / / / |D9sus4 / / / / | Em11 / / / / | Em11 / / / / :||[x2] [Coda] C9sus4 Turn on my VCR, D9sus4 ...same one I've had for years, Em11 James Brown on the T.A.M.I. show,Em11 ...same tape I've had for years, C9sus4 I sit in my old car, D9sus4 ...same one I've had for years, Em11 This old battery's running down, it Em11ran for years and years!
[Suggestion for ending] C9sus4 D9sus4 Em11 Em11 | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | C9sus4 D9sus4 Em11 | / / / / | / / / / | / || ============================================================================ For the ending, in some live performances Andy Summers played along in unison with Sting's bass riff, it could also be used in the break, palm mute the bridge and add some delay effect: e |---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| B |---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| G |---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| D |---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| A |-1-3-3--p3-1-3-|-3-5-5--p5-3-5-|-5-7-7--p7-5-7-|-5-7-7--p7-5-7-| E |---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------| p = Pull off note