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                             NEXT TO YOU
                         (Steven van Zandt)
          as performed by Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
              on the magnificent album "Hearts of Stone"

(c) 1978 Steven or whoever.

Transcribed without permission by Jan Neersoe
(j n eersoe @ qw ert zu. de) (remove spaces from e-mail to reply)

Beautiful song! There's some guitar work at the end (after Fill 4)
that I haven't bothered to tab out since it's getting a bit 
hard to hear at that point & it mainly just reinforces the chord
melody anyway.

Standard tuning. 


Intro (w/ chords):

 A          E     D     E     A          E     D     E

---------17----17----17----17---------17----17----17----17---------------
-21b(22)----21----19----21----21b(22)----21----19----21----21b(22)~~-----
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A               E
Same old places hurt inside 
    D                 E
But I still take that one sweet ride 
A            E        D       E
 Baby when I can 

A              E
Same old faces I despise 
D                  E
Coming 'round here tellin' lies 
A              E         D      E
 Sayin' they understand 

D                          E
 I'm tryin' to make it baby but it's no good 
  D                              D         E
I wouldn't give the satisfaction even if I could 

             F#m          E          D  A
Well there's nothing that I wouldn't do 
         F#m          E          D  A  D
There is nothing that I wouldn't do
         Bm           C#m        D
There is nothing that I wouldn't do

   D            A        
To get next to you 

(repeat intro)

(same verse cycle as above)

The money came, the money went 
And all the time baby we knew 
It wouldn't last too long                      (** Fill 1, see below **)

You spent your life on easy street 
Well that's one game I never beat 
You know on me it always looked so wrong  

                                   (** background: Fill 2, see below **)

You can't walk away baby without getting scarred 
I want it so badly, I'm trying too hard 

Well there's nothing that I wouldn't do 
Baby, there is nothing that I wouldn't do
There is nothing that I wouldn't do
To get next to you 


Solo (intro/verse chords):

-----------12----------12----12--10-----------------10-9-----------------
---12b(14)----(14)rb12----10-----12b(14)rb12-10-12-------12-10-----10----
---------------------------------------------------------------9~-----9--
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        (unison bends...........)
--------12-------14-------16----------------17----17----17----17---------
--------15b(17)--17b(19)--19b(21)---21b(22)----21----19----21----21b(22)-
-9/11--------------------------------------------------------------------
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-17----17----17----17------------------------------------------------------------
----21----19----21----21b(22)~~---------------------------------------------------------
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D                                E
 You say there's nothing left to believe in 
                                               (** Fill 3, see below **)
     C#m                       F#m  (E D A)
But somehow it wasn't meant to be 
                                   (** background: Fill 4, see below **)
   D           A        E
Oh don't you believe in me 

F   G     
     Baby, 
         Am           G          F   C
there is nothing that I wouldn't do 
             Am           G          F  C  F
Oh, there is nothing that I wouldn't do
         Dm           Em         F
There is nothing that I wouldn't do

   F            C    G    F    G      (etc.)
To get next to you 


Outro:
----------8----8----8----8---------8-------------------------------------
--12b(13)---12---10---12---12b(13)----etc... (like intro)----------------
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FILLS:

Fill 1:
---------------14------------------------------
-----------17--14--17b(19)rb17--17b(19)--14~~--
---16b(18)-------------------------------------
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Fill 2:
--14-17b(19)-(19)rb17--14------------------------------------------------
---------------------------17--17b(19)-17b(19)--17--15\------------------
---------------------------------------------------------14~~~-----------
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Fill 3:
---16-17-19---------------
-------------17~~---------
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Fill 4:
--14--16--17-16-14----14~----14/17~~--16~----
-------------------17------------------------
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That's all folks... have fun playing!


Tab explanation (examples):

17           Play note at fret 17. 
17p15        Pull-off from 17 to 15.
15h17        Hammer-on from 15 to 17.
14b(16)      Bend note at fret 14 to 16.
(16)rb14     Release the bend from 16 back to 14 again.
15b          Bend note at fret 15 to something that sounds good ;)
10/12        Slide from 10 to 12.
12\10        Slide from 12 to 10.
/8           Slide to 8 from somewhere further down the neck.
~            Let ring, apply vibrato, small bends, trem bar, whatever...
