Ace - How Long

      Song: How long
Artist: Ace
Composer: Paul Carrack
Album: Five-a-side

Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
30th Oct 2015

CAPO: 1st fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Ab),
alternatively sing it a semi-tone lower without the capo,
as Paul Carrack has sometimes done when playing the song in
solo acoustic performances.

N.B.
Please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website might
automatically suggest and use the typed shapes shown below:

Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
G6/A = x05430    Bbm7 = 686666    Em7  = 022030
A    = x02220    Bm7  = 797777    Bm   = x24432
A *  = x07650    F#m7 = 242222    A/B  = x22220

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[Intro]
[Simulation of bass - mute the bridge with side of palm]
e |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
B |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
G |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
D |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
A |--0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0----------|
E |------------|-----------|-----------|---------0-3-0-3-|

e |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
B |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
G |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
D |------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
A |--0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0----|-0--0-0--0-|-0--0-0----------|
E |------------|---------0-|-----------|---------0-3-0-3-|

 G6/A      G6/A   A        A    G6/A     G6/A   A        
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

 G6/A      G6/A   A        A   G6/A      G6/A   A *     Bbm7
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

[Chorus]
 Bm7       F#m7                 Em7                   F#m7
 How long------- has this been going on?   |  /  /  /  /  |
(How long-------------------   going on?)

 Bm7       F#m7                 Em7
 How long------- has this been going on?
(How long-------------------   going on?)

[Verse 1]
F#m7         G6/A                             A
 Well, your friends with their fancy per - suasion,
          G6/A                       A
Don't ad - mit that it's part of a scheme,
      G6/A                           A
But I can't help but have my sus - picions,
         G6/A                      A
'Cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem!

[Verse 2]
        G6/A                       A
And you said you was never in - tending,
   G6/A                        A
To break up our scene in this way,
          G6/A                      A
But there ain't any use in pre - tending,
         G6/A              A *    Bbm7
It could happen to us any day!

[Chorus]
 Bm7       F#m7                 Em7                   F#m7
 How long------- has this been going on?   |  /  /  /  /  |
(How long-------------------   going on?)

 Bm7       F#m7                 Em7
 How long------- has this been going on?
(How long-------------------   going on?)

[Bridge -Guitar solo]
     Bm            A/B
||:  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  :|| [Repeat x8]

[Verse 3]
             G6/A                             A
Oh -oh, your friends with their fancy per - suasion,
          G6/A                       A
Don't ad - mit that it's part of a scheme,
      G6/A                           A
But I can't help but have my sus - picions,
         G6/A                      A
'Cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem!

[Verse 4]
        G6/A                      A
Oh, you said you was never in - tending,
   G6/A                        A
To break up our scene in this way,
          G6/A                     A
But there ain't any use in pre - tending,
          G6/A             A *   Bbm7
It could happen to us any day!

[Chorus & Coda]
    Bm7       F#m7                 Em7                  F#m7
And how long------- has this been going on?  |  /  /  /  /  |
   (How long-------------------   going on?)

     Bm7      F#m7                  Em7             F#m7
 Oh, how long------- has this been going on?    How long?
    (How long-------------------   going on?)

 Bm7       F#m7                 Em7
 How long------- has this been going on?
(How long-------------------   going on?)

    F#m7     Bm7         F#m7                Em7          F#m7
How long has this... how long has this been going on? How long?
            (How long---------------------  going on?)

 Bm7      F#m7                  Em7                    F#m7
 How long------- has this been going on?   |  /  /  /  /  |
(How long-------------------   going on?)

    Bm7      F#m7                  Em7       F#m7    Bm7
Oh, how long------- has this been going on?  How---- long-----?
   (How long-------------------   going on?)