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If I Can't Have You – Yvonne Elliman
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Yvonne Elliman
If I Can't Have You (1977)
(Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb)
From “Saturday Night Fever – Original Movie Soundtrack”
The recording is somewhere between B and C. I chose the key of C here as
it is much easier to play.
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G_B-E
C x-3-2-0-1-0
Fm/C x-3-x-1-1-1
G/C x-3-x-0-0-3
F/C x-3-x-2-1-1
F/G 3-x-3-2-1-1
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INTRO
Gm Gm Am Dm Dm Am
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
G Am Bb F
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
[Don’t know ...]
VERSE
C Fm/C C
Don't know why I'm surviving every lonely day
G/C F/C
When there's got to be no chance for me
C Fm/C C
My life would end and it doesn't matter how I cry
G/C F/C G/C
My tears of love are a waste of time, if I turn away
BRIDGE
F Dm
Am I strong enough to see it through
F Dm F/G
Go crazy is what I will do
CHORUS
Am G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
Em Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah
Am G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
Em Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah
INTERLUDE
Gm Gm Am Dm Dm Am
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
G Am Bb F
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
[Can’t let ...]
VERSE
C Fm/C C
Can't let go and it doesn't matter how I try
G/C F/C G/C
I gave it all so easily to you my love
BRIDGE
F Dm
To dreams that never will come true
F Dm
Am I strong enough to see it through
F Dm F/G
Go crazy is what I will do
CHORUS
Am G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
Em Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah
Am G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
Em Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah
INTERLUDE
Dm Am G |
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + |
|Am Bb F
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
[If I ...]
CHORUS
Am G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
Em Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah
Am G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
Em Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah
(repeat and fade)
