Neville Aaron - Tell It Like It Is guitar tab

"Tell It Like It Is"

(Lee Diamond/George Davis)

[This is the arrangement from the original single (Parlo 101; #2, 1/67);

Aaron Neville made a much slower 1972 re-recording, which still appears

on far too many oldies comps. --AWR]

Intro: C+ (piano arpeggio)

Verse 1:

C7/G Gm C7

If you want something to play with

Gm C7 F Fmaj7/C F6

Go and find yourself a toy

D7/F# C7/G Gm C7

Baby my time is too expensive

Gm C7 F Fmaj7/C F6

And I'm not a little boy

Am Dm

If you are serious

Am Dm

Don't play with my heart, it makes me furious

Am Bb

But if you want me to love you

C Bb/C Am/C

Then baby I will, girl you know I will

Verse 2:

C7

Tell it like it is

Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide

But I... know deep down inside of me

I believe you love me

Forget your foolish pride

Life is too short to have sorrow

We may be here today and gone tomorrow

You might as well get what you want

So go on and live, baby go on and live

Coda [repeat first half of verse 2]:

Tell it like it is

I'm nothing to play with

Go and find yourself a toy

But I... tell it like it is

My time is too expensive

And I'm not your little boy

Tell it like it is... [fade]

Notes:

1) The guitar part is mostly played in 6ths. Over the C7/G...Gm... etc.

progression it's:

1 1 1 1

xxx2x2 xxx0x0 xxx9x8 xxx9x8

want... some... with... your...

...; over the F Fmaj7/C F6 [D7/F#] it's all

xxx5x5

since the C and A are common to all of the chords.

2) The D7/F# sounds like it might be F#dim, but careful listening reveals

a D (not a D#) in the right-hand piano voicing.

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers