Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

      
 
 Subject: Tab: Iron Maiden "Wasted Years"
 Date: Tue Jun 7 10:36:55 CDT 1994
 
 Wasted Years
 
 by Iron Maiden
 
 Off the album, Somewhere in Time
 
 From Hal Leonard transcription book of
 Iron Maiden's Powerslave/Somewhere in Time
 
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 verse
 From the coast of gold....

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 I'm travelin on....
 
 far and wide

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 But now it seems I'm just a
 stranger
 ( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/i/iron_maiden/wasted_years_tab_ver_2.html )

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 And all the things...

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 it isn't someone else

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 for rest of verse, just repeat
 
 Chorus
 
 golden years......

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 interlude (play intro riff)
 
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 outro

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