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From: Glen Norman Pavan
artist: Cheap Trick
title: Stiff Competition
album: Heaven Tonight
key: A
tuning: standard E A D G
main riff
G-----------5---------|
D---7-7-5-7---7-5-----|
A-----------------5-5-|
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intro
play riff four times
first verse play riff 8 times
Stiff competition If I go up you take me higher
Stiff competition And when I’m down you take me higher
chorus
There’s (E)stiff competition (D) A)all over the (D) (E) world (D) (A) (D)
(E)I screw you you screw (D) (A)me They screw us here we go (D) (E)again
(D) (A) (D)
bridge
(B)Oh (A) (B)right (A) (B)We have so much fun (A)when we’re toget(B)her
(A)When we’re toget(B)her (A)When we’re toget(B)her
interlude
(D)Now (Bb) (D) (Bb) I looked (D)hard in your (Bb)eyes
It was (D)love at first (Bb)sight
It took me (D)minutes you’re still (Bb)waiting waiting for your (D)turn
your (Bb)turn it won’t be long
repeat entire song
second verse lyrics
Stiff competition
I work hard everyday of my life
Stiff competition
Get it up you take me higher
outro- play riff until fade
comments, questions, etc. to senomar@bach.udel.edu
-I’m here, I’m queer, I play 5-string bass
