Colin Hay – If I Had Been A Better Man (Guitar)

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Artist: Colin Hay Song: If I Had Been A Better Man (acoustic) Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gg5-ufdVSo Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Y-9oqVZ88 Video 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJujMqnaDM Video 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWP1d4xexmw Transcription: SCA, [email protected] Note: Watch the videos in the links above! It differs from version to version a little bit, but this is the jist of it. Chords used: Dadd9: x.5.4.0.3.x C: x.3.2.0.1.0 C/B: x.2.0.0.1.0 C/A: x.0.0.0.1.0 G: 3.x.0.0.3.x C/G: 3.x.2.0.1.3 D: x.x.0.2.3.2 Dsus2: x.x.0.2.3.0 Em: 0.2.2.0.0.0 Am: x.0.2.2.1.0 Bm: x.2.4.4.3.x Cadd9: x.3.2.0.3.3 G/F#: 2.x.0.0.3.3 D/F#: 2.x.0.2.3.x Cadd4: x.3.2.0.3.0 G/B: x.2.0.0.3.0 C/B: x.2.0.0.1.0 Em7: x.2.0.0.0.0 Asus2: x.0.2.2.0.0 Asus4: x.0.2.2.3.0 Intro: Dadd9 C C/B C/A Dadd9 C C/B Dadd9 C C/B C/A Dadd9 C C/B Verse:

           G                    C 
There were kings and queens and could have beens

    Dadd9       C C/B C/A G     C/G G
And pretenders to the throne

              Em
I was a sweet contender then

Am                            D
Now my seeds they've all been sown

  G                   Bm
I scorched the earth behind me

        Am                 D    Dsus2 D
I could have made a better plan

Cadd9            D                G   C/G G 
   Yeah if I had been a better man

Verse:

            C
My promises were not to keep

    Dadd9    C  C/B C/A G    C/G G
But thrown into the dirt

                     Em
There must be more I told myself

     Am             D
As I buttoned up my shirt

             G               Bm
Well I could paint myself in glory now

       Am             D    Dsus2 D
And be proud of who I am

Cadd9            D                G   C/G G 
   Yeah if I had been a better man

Bridge:

G G/F# Em                    D/F#           Cadd4 
        Stumbling through deep suburbs of my mind

G/B           C/B  Em7  Am  Asus2 Am Asus4 Am
 As secrets of silence unwind

Em       D/F#    Cadd4
  I will sing you so long

G/B      C/B  Em7  Am Asus2 Am
 Now only love

          D            Dsus4 D
Only love makes me strong

Verse:

    G         C
You charity I took as mine

  Dadd9      C C/B C/A G   C/G G
I claimed it as my own

              C
I followed my ascending star

   C/B C/A       D/F#
To far away from home

           G             Bm 
Well I was mesmerized by shiny things

       Am            D      Dsus2 D
Now in frozen time I stand

Cadd9            D                G   C/G G 
   Yeah if I had been a better man

Verse:

                     C
Now I'm kneeling and I'm digging deep

Dadd9   C C/B C/A G   C/G G
Deep into the ground

                     Em
I'm searching for my soul to keep

       Am               D
Like a burried treasure found

   G                 Bm
In dreams I speak in ancient tongues

Am               D     Dsus2 D
Lost in wind and sand

Cadd9                 D                G   C/G G 
   Yeah if only I had been a better man

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