Band: The Smiths
Song: Ask
Album: The World Won't Listen
Thom Mills [email protected]

~ = bend, tremolo bar, whatever 
s = slide to next notes            |-->I'm partiularly shaky about 
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    Shyness is nice      and shyness can stop you from 
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(that's pretty much how the bass goes so I'm gonna stop writing it 
out.  There may may a feww notes missing from it anyway, but that's 
the general idea of it). 
  
  do-ing all the things in life you'd like to 
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Repeat for shyness is nice... then again for then again for coyness, 
but now we have the So, if there's something part so end only with 
tab A and go to... 
  
  So if there's something you'd like to try 
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  ask me, I won't say no, how could I? 
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g-12--------------9---5---9---------  tab A and B 
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then it makes its way to the Spening warm summer days apart... 
  
         Spending warm summer days indoors 
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  writing frightening verse   to a  bucktoothed girl in Luxemburg 
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  Ask me, ask me, ask me. 
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    because if it's not love then it's the bomb, the bomb 
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   the bomb, the bomb.  The bomb, the bomb the bomb 
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  that will bring us together 
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  Nature is a language can't you read?             So 
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b-8-8----8--8-8--8-----5---------8-----5---5---3---7- ask me... 
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  (togeth)er               If it's not love 
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  then it's the bomb     then it's the bomb that will bring us 
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  together       So 
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b-------0--5--5--7--  ask me ask me ask me part 
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and end with 
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