Merle Haggard, Friends Gonna Be Strangers Tabs

(MY FRIENDS ARE GONNA BE) STRANGERS (L. Anderson)
performed by Merle Haggard (1965)

|  |F |C |F |F |

        F                               Bb
Oh the love you promised would be mine forever
   F                              C
I would have bet my bottom dollar on
         F                             Bb
Well it sure turned out to be a short forever
      F                C                 F
Just once I turned my back and you were gone


         F                               Bb
From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers
         F                      C
I'm all through ever trusting anyone
          F                              Bb
The only thing I can count on now is my fingers
         F                 C                   F
I was a fool believing in you and now you are gone


    F                         Bb
It amazes me not knowing any better
         F                                C
Than to think I had a love that would be true
       F                              Bb
Why I should be taken out tarred and feathered
         F             C           F
To have let myself be taken in by you


         F                               Bb
From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers
         F                      C
I'm all through ever trusting anyone
          F                              Bb
The only thing I can count on now is my fingers
         F                 C                   F
I was a fool believing in you and now you are gone


INTRO triplet eighths

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|--------------------0-3|-1--------1-------/---P|----------5-----------6|
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|------6-0-3-131--------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|------------HP---3-1---|----------1------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-3--1--2---------------|-----------------------|
|----------------------3|------H---------0--1--2|-3---------------------|
|-----------------------|-------------3---------|-----------------------|
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SOLO
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|----6-5-0-3-1----------|-----------------------|----------1------------|
|--------------0-3-1----|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------1-3|-2--------0-----------0|-2-----3-----3--------1|
|-----------------------|-------2-----3-----3---|-------B-----B-----3---|
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|-----------------------|-----------------------|-------------------5--3|
|-----------------------|----------------1------|----------6------------|
|----------3------------|-------3-----------3-12|-------5---------------|
|-------3--B------------|-------B-------------H-|-3----/----------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
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|-------6-65-----------3|-------8-----8-----8---|-----------------------|
|---------P---------5---|-6-----B-----B--------8|-------6---------------|
|----------------5------|----------------------B|----------5------------|
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OUTRO
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|6-0-3--1---------------|-----------------------|
|----------0--3-31-----1|-----------------------|
|---------------P---3---|-2---------------------|
|-----------------------|-------2-----3---------|
|-----------------------|----3------------------|
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