Tracy Chapman – Change (Guitar)

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Notes: The Dm* indicates to play a quick hammer-on/pull-off of the 1st string, 3rd fret with pinky (listen to the recording). Also, the little riff (for a second guitar) during the chorus and end of the song is as follows: [Riff]
e|--5-----5-----5-----5---6---5---|
B|------3-----------3-------------|
G|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|
[Intro] Dm* Bb F C (x2) [Verse 1]
       F                   C
If you knew that you would die today

    Dm              Bb
You saw the face of God and love

          F       C           Dm*      Bb
Would you change?   Would you change?
[Verse 2]
       F                  C
If you knew that love can break your heart

            Dm               Bb
When you're down so low, you cannot fall

          F       C           Dm*      Bb
Would you change?   Would you change?
[Chorus]
Gm                                    F     C  [Riff]
   How bad, how good, does it need to get?

Gm                             F      C  [Riff]
   How many losses, how much regret?

Gm                                     F       C  [Riff]
   What chain reaction would cause an effect?

Gm                       C
   Makes you turn around, makes you try to explain

Bb                             G7
   Makes you forgive and forget, makes you change

Dm*  Bb            F      C
         Makes you change
Dm* Bb F C [Verse 3]
       F                   C
If you knew that you would be alone

   Dm              Bb
Knowing right, but being wrong

          F       C           Dm*      Bb
Would you change?   Would you change?
[Verse 4]
       F                   C
If you knew that you would find a truth

     Dm                  Bb
That brings a pain, that can't be soothed

          F       C           Dm*      Bb
Would you change?   Would you change?
[Chorus]
Gm                                    F     C
   How bad, how good, does it need to get?

Gm                             F      C
   How many losses, how much regret?

Gm                                     F       C
   What chain reaction would cause an effect?

Gm                       C
   Makes you turn around, makes you try to explain

Bb                             G7
   Makes you forgive and forget, makes you change

Dm*  Bb            F      C
         Makes you change
Dm* Bb F C [Bridge]
A7                                  Dm
   Are you so upright, you can't be bent?

      C
If it comes to blows,

A7                              Dm
   Are you so sure you won't be crawling?

   C                          Gm
If not for the good, why risk falling?

         C
Why risk falling?
[Verse 5]
   F              C
If everything you think you know

Dm                Bb
Makes your life unbearable

          F       C           Dm*      Bb
Would you change?   Would you change?
[Verse 6]
          F            C
If you've broken every rule and vow

    Dm                 Bb
And hard times come to bring you down

          F       C           Dm*      Bb
Would you change?   Would you change?
[Outro]
       F                   C         Dm*  Bb
If you knew that you would die today

       F               C            Dm*  Bb
If you saw the face of God and love

          F       C            Dm*      Bb
Would you change?    Would you change?

          F       C            Dm*      Bb
Would you change?    Would you change?

       F               C            Dm*  Bb
If you saw the face of God and love

       F               C            Dm*  Bb
If you saw the face of God and love

          F       C            Dm*      Bb
Would you change?    Would you change?

F   C   Dm*  Bb   F
[Riff] x2