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If I had a talking picture of you BG de Sylva / Lew Brown
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Tabbed by: Mike Lydiat
E-mail: mike@docsworkshop.co.uk
Tuning:EADGBE
To play along to Bing Crosby's version you need the Capo on fret 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfnCmY0NDk
Also Capo 3 for this version by Johnny Marvin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZuKw6ZJqg
VERSE CHORD SHAPES
[Dm9] [G6] [C] [A7] [F9] [Fm] [Cmaj7] [Am] [D] [G] [G+]
e|-0---0---0--3--3--1--0-----0--2--3--3--|
B|-3---3---1--2--1--1--0-----1--3--0--0--|
G|-2---0---0--0--2--1--0-----2--2--0--0--|
D|-3---0---2--2--3--3--2-----2--0--0--1--|
A|-0---2---3--0--0--3--3-----0--0--2--2--|
E|-x---3---x--x--1--1--x-----0--x--3--3--|
CHORUS CHORD SHAPES
[C] [G] [G7] [A7] [Dm] [D7] [G+] [E] [Am]
e|-0--3--1--0--1--2--3--0--0--|
B|-1--0--0--2--3--1--0--0--1--|
G|-0--0--0--0--2--2--0--1--2--|
D|-2--0--0--2--3--0--1--2--3--|
A|-3--2--2--0--0--0--2--2--0--|
E|-x--3--3--x--x--x--3--0--x--|
There's a nice little 2 bar Am run-down I use on the penultimate line of each chorus:
|0-0-|0-0-| You keep an ordinary Am chord in place
|1-1-|1-1-|
|2-2-|2-2-| and you change the bass note from A to G to F# to F
|2-2-|2-2-|
|0-x-|x---| I use my little finger for the G note and my thumb for the F# and F
|x-3-|2-1-|
VERSE 1
[Dm9] [G6] [C]
I talk to your photograph each day
[Dm9] [G6] [A7]
You should hear the lovely things I say
[F9] [Fm] [Cmaj7]
But I thought how happy I would be
[Am] [D] [G] [G+]
If your photograph could talk to me.
CHORUS
[C] [G]
If I had a talking picture of you,
[G7] [C]
I would run it every time I felt blue.
[A7] [Dm]
I would sit there in the gloom of my lonely little room
[D9] [G] [G+]
And applaud each time you whispered, "I love you; love you."
[C] [G]
On the screen the moment you came in view
[G7] [E]
We would talk the whole thing over, we two.
[Am]
I would give ten shows a day, and a midnight matinée,
[Dm] [G7] [C]
If I had a talking picture of you.
VERSE 2
[Dm9] [G6] [C]
All I have to keep me company
[Dm9] [G6] [A7]
Is the photograph you gave to me
[F9] [Fm] [Cmaj7]
I propose a thousand plans but oh
[Am] [D] [G]
It don't answer 'Yes' or even 'No'
