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From: jmo@fy.chalmers.se (Jean Marc Orliaguet)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic
Subject: TAB : Song for the Asking ( Paul Simon )
Date: 29 May 1995 22:22:49 GMT
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                        Song for the Asking ( Paul Simon )

              ( from the Bridge over Troubled Water Album 1970 )




Transcribed by : Jean-Marc Orliaguet
( jmo@fy.chalmers.se, http://fy.chalmers.se/~jmo )


Note :  Tune the guitar half a tone down. 


Intro :

 3/4 C                                                         ( repeat twice ) 
e-|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--||
B-|--------1-----1--|--------1-----1--|--------1-----1--|--------1-----1--||
G-|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--||
D-|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--||
A-|--3--------------|--3--------------|--3--------------|--3--------------||
E-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||


Guitar riff :

 3/4                   5/4 p.o.                  bend   3/4
e-||--------------------|--------------------------------|-----------------|
B-||--------5-----------|--3--1--------------------5-----|-----------------|
G-||-----------------0--|--------0-----------------------|-----------------|
D-||--3==5-----5==3-----|--------------------------------|-----------------|
A-||--------------------|--------------5-----3-----------|--3-----2-----0--|
E-||--------------------|--------------------------------|-----------------|

                                                           Here   is    my
                                                           This   is    my
                                                           Hmm    mm    mm
Section 1 :

     G                 F                Am                
e-|--------3-----3--|--------1-----1--|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--|
B-|--------0-----0--|--------1-----1--|--------1-----1--|--------1-----1--|
G-|--------0-----0--|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|
D-|--------0-----0--|--3--------------|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|
A-|-----------------|-----------------|--0--------------|--0--------------|
E-|--3--------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

    song              for        the    ask - ing 
    tune              for        the    ta - king


    Dm7                G7                E                 E7
e-|--------0-----1--|--------1-----1--|--------0-----0--|--------4-----4--|
B-|--3--------------|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--|--------3-----3--|
G-|--------0-----2--|--------0-----0--|--------1-----1--|--------4-----4--|
D-|--3--------------|--------0-----0--|--2-----2-----2--|--2--------------|
A-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E-|-----------------|--3--------------|-----------------|-----------------|
   
    ask    me    and   I          will  play               so
    take   it   don't turn         a -  way               I've        been

                                                                   
    F/A                                  C    C/D   C/E    F         
e-|--5--------------|--5--------------|-----------------|--1-----------------|
B-|--------6--------|--------6--------|-----------------|--1-----------1-----|
G-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|--2--------------2--|
D-|--------------7--|-----------------|--------0-----2--|--3-----------------|
A-|-----------------|--------------0--|--3--------------|--------------------|
E-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------------|

    sweet-ly     I'll                   make        you   smile
     wai  -    ting                     all     my        life



e-|--------------------||
B-|--------1-----------||
G-|--0-h2--------------||     
D-|--------------3-----||     
A-|--------------------||
E-|--------------------||


 3/4                  6/4 p.o.                  bend           
e-|--------------------|--------------------------------------|
B-|--------5-----------|--3--1--------------------5-----------|
G-|-----------------0--|--------0-----------------------------|
D-|--3==5-----5==3-----|--------------------------------------|
A-|--------------------|--------------5-----3-----------3--2--|
E-|--------------------|--------------------------------------|


Section 2:

    Am                                  Em                E7
e-|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--|--------3-----3--|--------4-----4--|
B-|--------1-----1--|--------1-----1--|--------5-----5--|--------3-----3--|
G-|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|--------4-----4--|--------4-----4--|
D-|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|--2--------------|--2--------------|
A-|--0--------------|--0--------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

       Thinking it over I've      been  sad  


    Edim                                 G    G/A   G/B   Bdim
e-|--------3-----3--|--------3-----3--|-----------------|-----------------|
B-|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|--0-----1-----3--|-----------------|
G-|--------3-----3--|--------3-----3--|-----------------|-----------------|
D-|--2--------------|--2--------------|-----------------|--3-----------0--|
A-|-----------------|-----------------|--------0-----2--|--------2--------|
E-|-----------------|-----------------|--3--------------|-----------------|

      thinking it over I'd been   more           than     glad        to


     C                 Bb                A7                F
e-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------1-----1--|
B-|--------------1--|--------------3--|--------------2--|--------1-----1--|
G-|--------------0--|--------------3--|--------------0--|--------2-----2--|
D-|--------2--------|--------0--------|--------2--------|--3-----3-----3--|
A-|--3--------------|--1--------------|--0--------------|-----------------|
E-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

   change my  ways                                        for         the 


     Am                                 Dm7                G7
e-|--------0-----0--|--------0-----0--|--------0-----1--|--------1-----1--|
B-|--------1-----1--|--------1-----1--|--3--------------|--------0-----0--|
G-|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|--------0-----2--|--------0-----0--|
D-|--------2-----2--|--------2-----2--|--3--------------|--------0-----0--|
A-|--0--------------|--0--------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|--3--------------|

    ask -  ing                          ask    me    and   I          will


     E                 E7               F/A               
e-|--------0-----0--|--------4-----4--|--5--------------|--5--------------|
B-|--------0-----0--|--------3-----3--|--------6--------|--------6--------|
G-|--------1-----1--|--------4-----4--|-----------------|-----------------|
D-|--2-----2-----2--|--2--------------|--------------7--|-----------------|
A-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------0--|
E-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
   
   play               all        the    love  that   I  
    


     C    C/D   C/E    F                    
e-|-----------------|--1-----------------|-----------------------||
B-|-----------------|--1-----------1-----|--------1--------------||
G-|-----------------|--2--------------2--|--0-h2-----------------||
D-|--------0-----2--|--3-----------------|--------------3--------||
A-|--3--------------|--------------------|-----------------------||
E-|-----------------|--------------------|-----------------------||

     hold       in - side


 3/4                  4/4 p.o.                  bend
e-|--------------------|-----------------------------|
B-|--------5-----------|--3--1--------------------5--|
G-|-----------------0--|--------0--------------------|
D-|--3==5-----5==3-----|-----------------------------|
A-|--------------------|--------------5-----3--------|
E-|--------------------|-----------------------------|



Lyrics :


Here is my song for the asking 
Ask me and I will play 
So sweetly, I'll make you smile 

This is my tune for the taking 
Take it, don't turn away 
I've been waiting all my life 

Thinking it over, I've been sad 
Thinking it over, I'd be more than glad 
To change my ways for the asking 

Ask me and I will play 
All the love that I hold inside 




             jmo@fy.chalmers.se         http://fy.chalmers.se/~jmo