Bad Company Chords

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                  Bad Company – Bad Company
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Written by: Paul Rodgers/Simon Kirke
From: "Bad Company" (1974)
 
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
 
At the beginning, the piano in the intro and verses mostly plays Eb
(here: D) throughout. Technically speaking most chords there
(except for the C in the middle of the lines) can be played as slash
chords, i.e.: Am/D and C/D.
 
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capo: 1st fret
play: Dm
key: Ebm
 
For chords in original key transpose +1 (and "use flats")
 
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[Break]
 Fadd9 C/E    C     C/G  Fadd9 C/E
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|1-----0---------|--------1---0---|
B|1-----1-----1---|--1-----1---1---|
G|0-----0-----0---|--0-----0---0---|
D|3-----2-----2---|--2-----3---2---|
A|------------3---|--x-------------|
E|----------------|--3-------------|
 
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CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-e
Csus4     x-3-3-0-1-1
C/D       x-x-0-0-1-0
C/A       x-0-2-0(1-0)
 
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[Intro]
Am C
| Dm | Dm   Am C |
| Dm | Dm   Am C |
| Dm | Dm   Am C |
| Dm | Dm   Am C |
           (Company ...)
 
[Verse]
Am C Dm  Csus4 C           Dm
Company, al -- ways on the run
Am C Dm  Csus4 C            | Dm | C/D |  Dm  | Dm   Am C |
Destiny, oooh, is the rising sun         Oh-oh-oh   (I  was ...)
 
Am C   Dm    Csus4 C   Am C  Dm
I  was born, six   gun in my hand
  Am   C   Dm     Csus4 C  Am C  | Dm | C/D   C/A C | Dm |
Behind the gun, I make  my fi-nal stand
Dm                        Dm  F
 That’s why they call me
 
 
[Verse]
C          G
  Bad company
             | Dm   C/D | Dm   Dm Dm |
Oh, I can’t deny
F             G
Bad, bad company
             | Dm   C/D | Dm |
Till the day I die
             | Dm   C/D | Dm |
Till the day I die
Am       C   | Dm | Dm   Am C | Dm |
Till the day I die
 
 
[Verse]
Am C   Dm       Csus4 C    Am C   Dm
Re-bel souls, deser - ters we are called
Am   C  Dm       Csus4 C Am  C  | Dm | C/D   C/A C | Dm |
Chose a gun, and threw a-way the sun
 
Am  C     Dm     Csus4 C   Am   C   Dm
All these towns, they  all know our name
Am   C  Dm    Csus4 C      Am    C  | Dm | C/D   C/A C | Dm |
Six gun sound       is our claim to fame
      Dm                 Dm  F
I can hear them saying
 
 
[Chorus]
C          G
  Bad company
             | Dm   C/D | Dm   Dm Dm |
Oh, I won’t deny
F             G
Bad, bad company
             | Dm   C/D | Dm |
Till the day I die
| Dm            C/D   Dm
   Till the day I     die  
 
Am      C  | Dm |
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
 
 
[Break] (see above)
| Dm C C    |
| Fadd9 C/E    C  |   C/G  Fadd9 C/E |
 
 
[Solo]
| Dm | % | % | Dm   Am C |
| Dm | Dm C C    |
| Fadd9 C/E    C  |   C/G  Fadd9 C/E |
| Dm | C/D | Dm | Dm   Dm F |
 
 
[Chorus]
C          G
  Bad company
             | Dm   C/D | Dm   Dm Dm |
Oh, I can’t deny
F             G
Bad, bad company
             | Dm   C/D | Dm C/D | Dm  C/D | Dm  F
Till the day I die                                I say ...
 
 
[Chorus]
C               G
  It’s bad company
         | Dm   C/D | Dm  F |
Oh, yeah, yeah
G          F
  Bad company
             | Dm   C/D | Dm | Dm  C/D | Dm |
Till the day I die                      Oh oh
 
 
[Outro]
| Dm   C/D | Dm | Dm  C/D | Dm |
| Dm   C/D | Dm | Dm  C/D | Dm |
 
(repeat and fade, guitar licks and vocals ad lib)
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