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If I Can't Have You – Yvonne Elliman
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Written by: Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
From “Saturday Night Fever – Original Movie Soundtrack” (1977)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
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)
