If You Want Me to Stay Chords by Sly & The Family Stone

[Start]

[Intro]
B7 Bm A D G A
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Bm D G
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[Verse]
       G              
If you want me to stay
        A7          
I'll be around today
D7    G                    Gb7
To be available for you to see
Bm             
I'm about to go
A               D   
And then you'll know
          G                        Gb7
For me to stay here I've got to be me 
       Bm               
You'll never be in doubt
            A7       D    
That's what it's all about
          G                       Gb7  
You can't take me for granted and smile
Bm                     
Count the days I'm gone
A                     D    
Forget reaching me by phone
          G                          Gbm   Gb7
Because I promise I'll be gone for a while ■  
Bm                   
When you see me again
            A        D   
I hope that you have been
            G                          A   Gb7
The kind of person that you really are now ■  
           Bm             
You got to get it straight
            A       D7  
How could I ever be late
               G                  Gb7 
When you're my woman takin' up my time


[Chorus]
   Bm                      
Oh how could you ever allow
          A7     D  
I guess I wonder how
    G                                  
How could you get out of pocket for fun
Gb7    
How how
         Bm                         D7 
When you know that you never number two
G                          Gb7
Number one gonna be number one
Bm             
Oh I'll be good
  A7     D    
I wish I could
         G                      
Get this message over to you now


[Solo]
Gb7 Bm A D G A Bm A
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D G A Gbm
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[Verse]
         E7     Bm   
When you see me again
       A7       A        
I hope that you have been
            G                     Gb7
The kind of person you really are now
Bm         A   
I'll be so good
         D    
I wish I could
        G                      
Get the message over to you now


[Chorus]
A Gb7 Gbm Bm A D G A
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[Outro]
Dbm Bm7 Bm Bm7 D G A Gbm
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Bm A D G
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[End]