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                "Sittin' By The Water's Edge" - Joe Brooks
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Tabbed by: Gloria Lee

Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)

About 4 years overdue! What's shown below is for the first verse and first chorus. Repeat the entire thing
for the second verse and second chorus (see note at the end).



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First Verse

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           Sittin' by the water's edge        You dipped your feet to bathe your

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    legs                It's like I'm    dreaming all over again


Repeat the last 2 lines for the rest of the verse as he sings "I sailed with you.. but they won't phase me."


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                                                                 Oh, your

Chorus

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   eyes, they're as pretty as the         lights in this city lighting up

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     the hearts as darkness sews its         thread                   Your

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   hair    is as   golden as the dust           that has fallen from the

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   stars that sleep on the ocean bed                             Here we 

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   are sittin' by the water's edge

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                                                                OOOOHHhhh....

Play x2
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                        oooOOHHHH sittin' by the water's edge