Slide Chords

by Goo Goo Dolls
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 1st fret
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Chords

Em7
D5
Csus2
G5
G5/F#
D
Cadd9
Dsus4
G

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This isn't actually the real way to play it since the Goo Goo Dolls use all that
alternate tuning, but it's close enough.  This is the standard tuning version.
 
Capo 1st fret
 
[Intro Riff]
    Em7   D5          Csus2   G5    G5/F#
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|------3-------3---------3-------3----3---|
G|----0---2---2---2-----0---0---0----------|
D|--2-------0-------0----------------------|
A|--------------------3--------------------|
E|----------------------------3-----2------|
 
[Breakdown Riff]
     D            Cadd9
e|------------------3--|
B|---------3--------3--|
G|------------------0--|
D|------4-----5-----2--|
A|-3/5-----------5--3--|
E|------------------0--|
 
 
[Intro]
 
Intro Riff x2
 
 
[Verse]
 
Em7                       Dsus4
  Could you whisper in my ear
                     Cadd9
The things you wanna feel
 
I'll give you anything to feel it coming
Em7                      Dsus4
  Do you wake up on your own,
                 Cadd9
Wonder where you are
 
Live with all your faults?
 
 
[Breakdown]
 
(Breakdown Riff) Cadd9
                       I wanna wake up where you are
(Breakdown Riff) Cadd9
                       I won't say anything at all,
   Dsus4
so why don't you slide?
 
 
[Interlude]
 
Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Dsus4
                              Yeah, gonna let it slide
Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Dsus4
 
 
[Verse]
 
Em7                           Dsus4
  Don't you love the life you killed?
                     Cadd9
The priest is on the phone
 
Your father hit the wall
 
Your Ma disowned you
Em7                       Dsus4
I don't suppose I'll ever know
                      Cadd9
What it means to be a man
 
It's something I can't change
 
I'll live around it...
 
 
[Breakdown]
 
I wanna wake up where you are
(Breakdown Riff) Cadd9
                       I won't say anything at all
   Dsus4
So why don't you slide?
 
 
[Interlude]
Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Dsus4
                  Uuhm, slide
 
 
[Refrain]
    Cadd9        G              Cadd9            G
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
       Cadd9         G            Dsus4
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
 
 
[Chorus]
 
   Em7                  Dsus4
Oh May, put your arms around me
         Cadd9             G               Cadd9        Dsus4
What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful
Em7                   Dsus4            Cadd9
Oh May, you wanna get married, or run away?
 
 
[Interlude]
 
      Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Cadd9  G  Dsus4
(uuuhh)                  (uuhh)
 
 
[Refrain]
 
    Cadd9        G              Cadd9            G
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
       Cadd9         G            Dsus4
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
 
 
[Chorus]
 
   Em7                  Dsus4
Oh May, put your arms around me
         Cadd9            G                Cadd9        Dsus4
What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful
Em7                   Dsus4            Cadd9
Oh May, you wanna get married, or run away?
 
 
[Breakdown]
 
(Breakdown Riff) Cadd9                                Dsus4
                      I wanna wake up where you are...
(Breakdown Riff) Cadd9                            N.C.
                           I won't say anything...
 
[Refrain]
 
    Cadd9        G              Cadd9            G
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
(Yes, I)
       Cadd9         G            Dsus4
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
(Yes, I)
    Cadd9        G              Cadd9            G
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
(Yes, I)
       Cadd9         G            Dsus4
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
(Yes, I)
 
Oh, oh, oh and I
         (Yes, I)
 
 
[Post-Refrain]
              Cadd9              G                   Cadd9          G
Why don't you slide between them sheets of all those beds you never knew
     Cadd9          G          Em7            Dsus4
Just slide up to my room, just slide up to my room
 
And I will run away, run away run away...
 
 
[Outro]
 
(Intro Riff) x1 followed by version that's different at the end:
 
    Em7   D5          Csus2     G
e|------------------------------3--|
B|------3-------3---------3-----3--|
G|----0---2---2---2-----0---0---0--|
D|--2-------0-------0-----------0--|
A|--------------------3---------2--|
E|------------------------------3--|
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53 comments
Tangalicious
This is pretty damn close, and easy to play. I can't believe no one tabbed this before. A lot better than breaking 2 B strings trying to tune to all the alternative tunings, good work.
+24
ducdeeze
i usually prefer to learn the song how the artist plays it, but this to me sounds better when i play it than if i were to tune it weird and play it "right". this version sounds great.
+9
sullivandf
Awesome tab and easy to play! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please, if you have any more Goo Goo Dolls tabs in standard tuning, please post.
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