Lovin Spoonful

Lovin Spoonful - You Didnt Have To Be So Nice guitar tab

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"You Didn't Have To Be So Nice"

(John Sebastian - Steve Boone)

Intro:

[drums: quarter-note triplets, 2X]

(variations on A chord implied by piano and chimes):

A Amaj7 A6 Amaj7 A Amaj7 A6 Amaj7 E

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

A Amaj7 A6 Amaj7 E B

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

Verse 1 (backing vocals only on repeat)

E G#m

You didn't have to be so nice

(be so nice)

A A/B

I would have liked you anyway

(would have liked you anyway)

E G#m

If you had just looked once or twice

(once or twice)

A A/B

And gone upon your quiet way

(quiet way)

Chorus:

A Amaj7 A6 Amaj7 E

Today I said the time was right for me to follow you

A Amaj7 A6 Amaj7 E

I knew I'd find you in a day or two

B

And it's true

Verse 2:

You came upon a quiet day

You simply seemed to take your place

I knew that it would be that way

The minute that I saw your face

[repeat chorus (instrumental)]

[drum fill: eighth-note triplets 1 bar]

Verse 3:

And when we've had a few more days

(when we've had a few more days)

I wonder if I'll get to say

(wonder if I'll get to say)

You didn't have to be so nice

(be so nice)

I would have liked you anyway

(would have liked...)

Chorus 2:

Today I said the time was right for me to follow you

(...today said that the time was right to follow you)

I knew I'd find you in a day or two

(I knew that I would find you in a day or two)

And it's true

[repeat verse 1, w/background vocals]

Coda:

A Amaj7 A6 Amaj7 E B [repeat to fade]

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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