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                Only the Strong Survive - Elvis Presley
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Written by: Huff/Butler/Gamble
From: "From Elvis in Memphis" (1969)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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Capo: 1st fret
Play: G
Key: Ab

For chords in original key transpose +1 (and "use flats")

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CHORDS
        E-A-D-G-B-e
C/G     3-x-2-0-1-0
Am/G    3-x-2-2-1-0

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[Intro]
| G | % | C/G | % | Am/G | % | G | % |
[spoken:] I remember my first love affair
Somehow or another the whole darn thing went wrong
My mamma had some great advice
So I thought I'd put it into words of this song
I can still hear her sayin' it


[Verse]
G                     C/G
Boy, oh, I see you're sittin' out there all alone
Am/G                                         G
Cryin' your eyes out 'cos the woman that you love has gone
                  G                                   C/G
Oh, there's gonna be, there's gonna be a whole lot of trouble in your life
       Am/G                                    G
Oh, so listen to me get up off your knees 'cos only the strong survive
                 G
That's what she said, only the strong survive


[Chorus]
         Am/G
Only the strong survive,
          Am        Bm            C           D
Oh you've got to be strong, you'd better hold on


[Verse]      
      G                       C/G
Don't go all around with your head hung down
     Am/G 
Well I wouldn't let that little girl, no, I wouldn't let her know 
                 G
That she made me feel like a clown
          G                               C/G
There's a whole lot a girls lookin' for a good man like you
       Am/G 
Oh but you'll never meet 'em if you give up now 
             G
And say your life is through


[Chorus]
                       G                        Am/G
Yes she said: Only the strong survive, only the strong survive,
       Am          Bm          C             D
You've got to be a man, you've got to take a stand


[Interlude]
| G | % | C/G | % | Am/G | % | G | % |
Boy, boy, oh boy


[Chorus] (outro)
         G                        Am/G
Only the strong survive, only the strong survive,
          Am        Bm            C           D
Oh you've got to be strong, you'd better hold on
     G
'Cos only the strong survive
         G                        Am/G
Only the strong survive, only the strong survive,
       Am          Bm          C             D
You've got to be a man, you've got to take a stand
         G                        C/G
Only the strong survive, only the strong survive
         Am/G                     G
Only the strong survive, only the strong survive