Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead Or Alive
150 bpm 4/4 Strumming [Slippery When Wet 1986]
Intro
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Verse 1
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It's all the same… only the names will change…
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Every day… it seems we're wasting away…
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Another place… where the faces are so cold…
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I'd drive all night… just to get back home…
Chorus 1
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I'm a cowboy… on a steel horse I ride…
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I'm wanted… dead or a-live…
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Wanted… dead or a-live…
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Sometimes I sleep…
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Sometimes it's not for days…
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The people I meet…
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always go their separate ways…
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Sometimes you tell the days…
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by the bottle that you drink…
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and times when you're alone…
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and all you do is think…
Chorus 2
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I'm a cowboy… on a steel horse I ride…
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I'm wanted… dead or a-live…
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Wanted… WANTED… dead or a-live…
Interlude 2
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Ooo-ooh…
Solo
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Ride-eee…
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Bridge
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and I'm a cowboy… on a steel horse I ride…
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I'm wanted… WANTED… dead or a-live
Verse 3
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and I walk these streets…
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a loaded six string on my back…
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I play for keeps…
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'cause I might not make it back…
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I been everywhere… Still I'm standing tall…
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I've seen a million faces…
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and I've rocked them all-lll…
Refrain
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‘cause and I'm a cowboy…
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on a steel horse I ride…
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I'm wanted… WANTED… dead or a-live…
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Well I'm a cowboy…
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I got the night on my side…
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and I'm wanted… WANTED… dead or a-live…
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and I ride… AND I RIDE… dead or a-live…
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I still drive… I STILL DRIVE… dead or a-live…
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Dead or alive… Dead or a-live…
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Dead or alive… Dead or a-live…
Outro
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