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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
FROM: Lukas Lechner, Woergl, Austria
E-MAIL: [email protected]
DATE: 11 Jul 2001
ARTIST: Eric Clapton
SONG: If I Don't Be There By Morning
ALBUM: Timepieces Vol II - Live in the 70s
		If I Don't Be There By Morning
		________________________________________
Intro:   B  E  B  E  B  E  B     a few times   (barre your index finger at the 7th fret: shortest way)
Verse:
B   E   B   E   B   E          ----> same pattern as intro
Blue sky upon the horizon,
BPrivEate Beye Eis oBn my Etrail,
       A        D       A        D   etc.      ----> same playing but on the 5th fret and not so many changings
And if I don't be there by morning
You knoBw thEat I BmusEt haBve sEpent Bthe Enight in jail.
Verse:
I got a woman livin' in L.A.
I got a woman waiting for my pay,
And if I don't be there by morning,
She'll know that I must have gone the other way.
Bridge:
F#mFinding my way back to Byou girl,
Lonely and Eblue and mistreated too.
F#mSometimes I think of yBou girl,
Is it trCue thC#at yoF#u think of me too?
Solo   over verse chord pattern
Bridge:
Finding my way back to you girl,
Lonely and blue, mistreated too.
Sometimes I think of you girl,
Is it true that you think of me too?
Verse:
I left my woman with a twenty dollar bill.
I left her waiting, hope she's waiting for me still.
If I don't be there by morning
You know that I, I never will.
Key solo over verse chord pattern
If I don't be there by morning
You know that I, I never will.
I never will
I never will
I never will
I never will
applause and "Thankyou!"
;-)
	|	-Ray Davies, 1965			          |

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F#m

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

FROM: Lukas Lechner, Woergl, Austria

E-MAIL: [email protected]

DATE: 11 Jul 2001

ARTIST: Eric Clapton

SONG: If I Don't Be There By Morning

ALBUM: Timepieces Vol II - Live in the 70s

If I Don't Be There By Morning

________________________________________

Intro: B E B E B E B a few times (barre your index finger at the 7th fret: shortest way)

Verse:

B E B E B E ----> same pattern as intro

Blue sky upon the horizon,

B E B E B E

Private eye is on my trail,

A D A D etc. ----> same playing but on the 5th fret and not so many changings

And if I don't be there by morning

B E B E B E B E

You know that I must have spent the night in jail.

Verse:

I got a woman livin' in L.A.

I got a woman waiting for my pay,

And if I don't be there by morning,

She'll know that I must have gone the other way.

Bridge:

F#m B

Finding my way back to you girl,

Lonely and blue and mistreated too.

F#m B

Sometimes I think of you girl,

C C# F#

Is it true that you think of me too?

Solo over verse chord pattern

Bridge:

Finding my way back to you girl,

Lonely and blue, mistreated too.

Sometimes I think of you girl,

Is it true that you think of me too?

Verse:

I left my woman with a twenty dollar bill.

I left her waiting, hope she's waiting for me still.

If I don't be there by morning

You know that I, I never will.

Key solo over verse chord pattern

If I don't be there by morning

You know that I, I never will.

I never will

applause and "Thankyou!"

;-)

| -Ray Davies, 1965 |

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