Joe Jackson – Be My Number Two (Guitar Tab)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: [email protected] (Juergen Helmers) This is just a simple try to adapt this lovley piano-based ballad to the guitar. If you need it, I maybe could write down and mail you the tabs as I play it, but firstgive it a go and work out your own.. INTRO F Bb C F Bb C am7 gm7 C dm7 C F Bb C F Bb C am7 gm7 C dm7 C Verses: F Bb C Won't you be my number two F Bb C Being number one or trough (?) am7 gm7 C There won't be too much to do dm7 C just smile when I feel blue F Bb C And there's not much left of me F Bb C What you get is what you see am7 gm7 C Is it worth the energy dm7 C I leave it up to you Break: Bb F C F And if you got something to say to me Bb F C F Don't try to lay off only weights on me Bb F C F I know that it's really not fair of me Bb9 C9 But my heart seemed too much action F Bb C And every time I look at you F Bb C you'll be who I want you to am7 gm7 C And I'll do what I can do dm7 C Bb^6 To make a dream or two come true Bb^6 gm7 F if you be my, if you be my number two. F Bb C F Bb C am7 gm7 C dm7 C End: Bb^6 gm7 gm7/c F^79 Chords: F: Bb: C:
e|--1--------x-----------x---|
b|--1--------3-----------5---|
g|--2--------3-----------5---|
d|--3--------3-----------5---|
a|--3--------1-----------3---|
e|--1--------x-----------x---|
Use these chords for the first two lines of each verse and the break. The am7, gm7 and dm7 in the rest of each verse are:
am7:   gm7:    dm7:
e|--x------x-------x-------|
b|--5------3-------10------|
g|--5------3-------10------|
d|--5------3-------10------|
a|--x------x-------x-------|
e|--5------3-------10------|
For last C in each verse I take an upper position:
   C:
e|-----x-------------------|
b|-----8-------------------|
g|-----9-------------------|
d|-----10------------------|
a|-----x-------------------|
e|-----8-------------------|
The Bb9 and the C9 in the end of the break are: Bb9: C9:
e|--x-----------x---|
b|--1-----------3---|
g|--3-----------5---|
d|--3-----------5---|
a|--1-----------3---|
e|--x-----------x---|
So you finally need the chords I play in the end of the Song. I end up in the 10th position (dm7) and progress in a downward movement in an ending-sequence to a finally F^7/9: Play the dm7 at the 10th and the C at the 8th position. Go down two frets to the 6th position and try a Bbmajor6 like this:
   Bb^6:
e|---------x--------|
b|---------6--------|
g|---------7--------|
d|---------5--------|
a|---------x--------|
e|---------6--------|
In the ending sequence I use the already mentioned gm7 after which I go over a gm7 add C on b-string at first position,
   gm7/C:
e|---------x---------|
b|---------1---------|
g|---------3---------|
d|---------3---------|
a|---------x---------|
e|---------3---------|
to the last chord, a F major7/9:
   F^7/9:
e|---------0---------|
b|---------1---------|
g|---------0---------|
d|---------3---------|
a|---------x---------|
e|---------1---------|
I hope you like it and enjoy... Juergen
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Juergen Helmers               Freie Universitaet Berlin
Tel.: + 49 30 6269734         Institut fuer Biochemie
Fax :(+ 49 30 6269734)        [email protected]
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