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Stay or Leave Guitar Tablature
Song: Stay or Leave (acoustic)
Artist: Dave Matthews
Album: Some Devil
Tabbed by: Mohammad Ali Aminuddin

Hey guys! I bought some devil the day it released in Canada?! It’s amazing, I loved gravedigger, so *** lucky, stay or leave and oh (my fav!) Anyways I wanted to post this tab before any-1 else got it?! Hehe, I think its pretty easy. Oh and also rate my other dmb tab: somewhere over the rainbow(cover) 
Shout out to all my friends, u know who u are .. any corrections please feel free to send em!! 

Intro and verse:                            
                                              Strum this
e|-------------------------|------------------5-----5p2--------------------|
B|-------------------------|------------------3-----3-3--------------------|
G|------------7------------|-----------7------0-----0-0--------------------|
D|-----0—-4s7-7-5-4-0-2----|-----0—4s7-7-5-4--4--4--4-4--------------------|
A|---2------------------4--|--2--------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
   X----X      X---------X

If you want it to sound a bit fuller try playing the same thing but keep your ring finger on the 3rd fret of the B-string for strumming and then play the notes (like crash).Play the strumming where I’ve marked the X-…-X

Chorus: 
 
   Em  G   D      A    or try:
E|------3---2----------|-----3--------------------------------------|
B|------0---3------2---|-----3---7---2------------------------------|
G|------0---2------2---|-----4---7---2------------------------------|
D|--2---0----------2---|-2---5---7---2------------------------------|
A|--2---2--------------|-2---5---5----------------------------------|
E|------3--------------|--------------------------------------------|

Chorus

Em         G        D               A           Em
   Stay or leave, I want you not to go, but you should,
          G        D    A
   It was good, as good goes
Em         G        D               A           Back to Verse rhythm 
   Stay or leave, I want you not to go, but you did. 


Verse 2: so what to do (I didn’t know the names for the first 2 chords, please have mercy...)
      X     Y     D      A
E|----4-----3-----2-----------------------------------------------------|
B|----5-----3-----3------2----------------------------------------------|
G|----4-----4-----2------2----------------------------------------------|
D|--6-6---5-5---0--------2----------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------|

X   Y
 So what to do,
 D	A     
 With the rest of the days afternoon,
 X    Y
 Hey, isn’t it strange
 D             A
 How we change everything we did 
X         Y
 Did I do all that I could 

-Back to intro rhythm

Intro and verse: (he plays something else in the end, listen carefully)
e|-------------------------|---------------10p7-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|---------------8--8-------------------------|
G|------------7------------|-----------7---7--7-------------------------|
D|-----0—-4s7-7-5-4-0-2----|-----0—4s7-7---7--7-------------------------|
A|---2------------------4--|--2-----------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
       Part A                         Part B

Verse 3: remember we you used to dance

          G       Em      D     Em           
e|--------3------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------3------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------4---------------7--------------------------------------------------|
D|--------5-------2-------7-----2--------------------------------------------|
A|--------5-------2-------5-----2--------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

G 
  Remember we used to dance,
Em
  And everyone wanted to be,
D                          Em
  You and me I want to be two, (I DO NOT KnOW Wat HE’s SAYiN?!)

Em     G             A
  What day is this?
  X
  Besides the day you left me,
Em       G           A
  What day is this?
              X
  Was as the day you went

-Back to Verse 2

Ending: 
What day is this?
E|-------5-----------------------------------|
B|-------3-----------------------------------|
G|-------0-----------------------------------|
D|-------0-----------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------|

Hope you liked it, if you have a better version, email it to me at [email protected].

P.S: Somebody please tab out “Oh”!!
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