Megadeth - This Was My Life Chords & Tabs

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from: jamesj@svpal.org
 
                               MEGADETH
                            This Was My Life   
                                                     

You will be able to fill in where riffs should go etc etc. 
Just listen to the album.

 
Great song, one of the best off Countdown, here goes
 
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w/ "It was just another day"     

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 w/ "To not be right"
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/megadeth/this_was_my_life_tab_ver_2.html ]

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CHORUS
"Lying on your bed"
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                         "Part of me that hates"
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                                  w/"HEY!       THIS WAS MY LIFE!" etc
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   W/ "In our life there's" Etc         
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GUITAR SOLO

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"This was my life," etc
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