Lovin Spoonful

Lovin Spoonful - You Didnt Have To guitar chord

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From: rogers@hi.com (Andrew Rogers)

Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:14:08 -0500

Subject: ./l/lovin_spoonful/you_didnt_have_to_be_so_nice.crd

                    "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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