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[Intro]\r\n \r\nC<\/span>, Dm<\/span>    F<\/span>    C<\/span>     F<\/span>   G\/E<\/span>  F#m<\/span>    G<\/span>\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n \r\nC<\/span>    Am<\/span>\r\n Oh, she may be weary;\r\nDm<\/span>                G<\/span>\r\n Them young girls, they do get weary,\r\nC<\/span>             A#<\/span>              A<\/span>\r\n Wearing that same old shaggy dress.\r\nDm<\/span>                       G<\/span>\r\n But when she gets weary;\r\n             C<\/span>          Eb<\/span> , Dm<\/span>\r\nTry a little tenderness.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n \r\nC<\/span>          Am<\/span>            Dm<\/span>       G<\/span>\r\n You know, she's waiting; just an-ticipating,\r\nC<\/span>                      A#<\/span>            A<\/span>\r\n The thing that she'll never, never, never, never posses, yeah, yeah.\r\nDm<\/span>                             G<\/span>\r\n But while she's there waiting, and without them,\r\n             C<\/span>          F<\/span>       C<\/span>\r\nTry a little tenderness, that's all you got to do.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\n \r\nF<\/span>              E<\/span>\r\n It's not just sentimental, no, no, no;\r\nAm<\/span>           D<\/span>\r\n She has her griefs and cares.\r\nF<\/span>                    E<\/span>\r\n But the soft words; they are spoke so gentle, yeah,\r\nD<\/span>                   Dm<\/span>         G<\/span>\r\n It makes it easier, easier to bear.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n \r\nC    Am\r\n You won't regret it, no, no;\r\nDm                 G\r\n Young girls, they, don't forget it;\r\nC              A#          A\r\n Love is their whole happi-ness.\r\nDm                   G\r\n But its all so easy;\r\n                                       C\r\nAll you got to do is try, try a little tenderness yeah.\r\n              A\r\nAll you gotta, do is dance, and hold her where you want her.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Coda]\r\n \r\nDm           Em\r\n Squeeze her, don't tease her,\r\nF      D          G   E\r\n Never leave her, now get to her;\r\nA                 A#    B     C\r\n Got, got, got to try a little tenderness, yeah, yeah,\r\nA#                      A\r\n You got to know how to love her bad, take this advice, man, you got to...\r\n \r\nDm           Em\r\n Squeeze her, don't tease her,\r\nF      D                 G        E\r\n Never leave, you got to hold her,\r\n        A            A#    B     C\r\nBrother sometimes(?) try a little tenderness, yeah, yeah,\r\nA#                      A\r\n You got to know how to love her bad, don't lose her, no, no.\r\n \r\nDm          Em        F          D\r\n You got to love her, tease her, always please her.\r\nG (n.F)                                       C\r\n Got to try, now, now, now, try, try a little tenderness, yeah,\r\nA#                           A\r\n Watch me groove, you got to know what to do, man, take this advice;\r\n \r\n           Dm        Em       F                  D     G\r\nYou gotta, love her, squeeze, don't you tease my baby...\r\n \r\n(Fade)\r\n \r\n \r\nCHORD DIAGRAMS:\r\n---------------\r\n \r\n   C      Dm       F      C               F#m      G       Am\r\n \r\n EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE\r\n 320003  xx1212  xx2010  120033  020033  xx2323  xx0232  022000\r\n \r\n   Dm      G       A#      A       C       Eb     Dm      C\r\n \r\n EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE\r\n x02210  xx0212  xx3231  020100  x20033  x13131  xx0210  3x443x\r\n \r\n   F       C       E       D       Dm      Em     D       E\r\n \r\n EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE\r\n x32010  353433  x24242  x02223  x02013  x24432  x42220  xx1442\r\n \r\n   A       A#      B      A#     A\r\n \r\n EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE\r\n 022100  133211  244322  131211  x7678x\r\n \r\n \r\nTabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)\r\n
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  [Intro] C, Dm F C F G\/E F#m G [Verse 1] C Am Oh, she may be weary; Dm G Them young girls, they do get weary, C A# A Wearing that same old shaggy dress. Dm G But when she gets weary; C Eb , Dm Try a … CLICK TO VIEW SONGTry a Little Tenderness<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28619,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/28619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}