John Butler Trio – What You Want (Guitar)

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There are quite a few tabs here, all of them very good, but they're all in open C tuning. I decided to rework the song into standard because it's a hassle changing tuning so often if you want to busk or whatever. Not being that good a guitarist though, I only translated the chords and not the riffs, but I think it went quite well, so enjoy. [Chords] Cadd9 Asus2 Em Bm e:0 e:0 e:0 e:2 B:3 B:0 B:0 B:3 G:0 G:2 G:0 G:4 D:2 D:2 D:2 D:4 A:3 A:0 A:2 A:2 E:x E:x E:0 E:x F#5 G D/F# e:x e:x e:x B:x B:x B:3 G:x G:4 G:2 D:4 D:5 D:0 A:4 A:5 A:0 E:2 E:3 E:2 (I included the D/F# chord because in the outro it sounds rather nice and fits just about as well as the F#5 does, so just pick whichever you think sounds best.) [Intro/Verse] Cadd9 Asus2 Em Bm x6

                 Cadd9  Asus2  Em
What you want to say,

Bm                Cadd9  Asus2  Em
Wait till you get home. 

    Bm          Cadd9  Asus2  Em
I'm sick of communicating        over the

Bm    Cadd9  Asus2  Em
Telephone.

    Bm              Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
But tell me how you feel,

Bm          Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
I am lonely too

Bm            Cadd9
  Need you to know

    Asus2  Em         Bm    Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm
I'm just as cold & numb  as you.

[Bridge] (Cadd9 - One bar being the length of the four verse chords, play this for 8 bars. There's lots of fiddlyness here, which you could improvise, or figure out from the many tabs.) [Verse] Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm x4

                Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
But I could fly away,

  Bm             Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
Or I could be no one. 

    Bm           
And you could be the

Cadd9     Asus2  Em      Bm    Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
Sunshine falling over the Mountains 

Bm                  Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em 
Or you could come today 

Bm                   Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
You could come right home 

 Bm               Cadd9
I don't see why I have to

  Asus2     Em     Bm   Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm
Live this life all   alone.

[Bridge] (Cadd9 (Again, there's more fiddly guitar lines here, best to improvise or have a look at the other tabs)) I know there is a way to make up for old Mistakes I know what's happening is for a reason [Outro] Em | F#5 | G | Asus2 Cadd9 x4 (John starts singing as he plays the Em chord, and ends on the Cadd9 which lasts a bar. If he sings words I haven't managed to decipher them, but if you can get the tone with your voice the details don't matter here.)