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Better Man - Steve Williams Band
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Tabbed by: Jeff Sorensen
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard, Capo 2
Note: Em takes the form of Em7 during picking
Chords used:
C Em D Am G F
e|---0-----0-----2-----0-----3-----1-----|
B|---1-----0-----3-----1-----3-----1-----|
G|---0-----0-----2-----2-----0-----2-----|
D|---2-----2-----0-----2-----0-----3-----|
A|---3-----2-----x-----0-----2-----3-----|
E|---x-----0-----x-----x-----3-----1-----|
Standard Tuning, Capo 2nd Fret
Intro & Verse picking:
e|-------------0-----3------------------------3---------------0-----3-------------------------0-----|
B|-------1-------1-----1----------0-----3-------3-------1-------1-----1----------3----------3---3---|
G|-----0---0--------------------0---0-----0-----------0---0--------------------0---0------2-------2-|
D|---2-------2-----2----------2-------2-----2-------2-------2-----2----------2-------2--0-----------|
A|-3------------------------2---------------------3------------------------2------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Intro: C - Em - C - Em7 - D
Verse 1:
C
It was 1985
Em C
When your son and I drove by
Em D
And saw you standing there
C
Outside the liquor store
Em C
With a bottle in your hand
Em D
Living the life you chose
Pre-Chorus:
Am G C
I always wondered why
Am
We just drove on by
D
I never saw you again
Chorus:
G Am
You never tried to be a better man
Em C
You chose to run instead
G Am
All of the guilt you carried
Em C
Was written on your face
G Am
I never knew the day you died
Em C
Would take it all away
Verse 2:
C
Soon his mother died
Em
And all the locked up pain inside
C Em D
Began to rear its head
C
And all the memories
Em
Like some old bad disease
C Em D
Was finally put to bed
Pre-Chorus:
Am G C
I always wondered why
Am
We just drove on by
D
But now I understand
(Chorus)
Bridge: F - C - F - C - D
(chorus)
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| H hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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