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For My Lover Tab

by Tracy Chapman



	For My Lover:
	I use "^" for hammer-on, and the "d" and "u" to indicate downaward and  
upward strums.  Here's the intro:
                                               
         u              u               u      u
e-----0---0-----------3---3-----------|2---2---2---0---------|
B--T--0---0-----------0---0-----------|3---3---3---0---------|
G--A--0---0-----------0---0-----------|2---2---2---0---------|
D--B--2---2-------0---0---0-------0---|0---0---0---2---------|
A-----2---2---0^2-----2---2---0^2-----|------------3---------|
E-----0---0-----------3---3-----------|----------------------|
	The intro is repeated, and then:

                
Two weeks in a Virginia jail
              
For my lover, for my lover.
              
Twenty thousand dollar bail
             
For my lover, for my lover.---

And everybody thinks
 (x02420)
I'm the fool.

They don't get---any

love from you.

Things we won't do for love---
 
 
I'd climb a mountain if I had to,

risk my life so I could have you---

you- you- you- you...
 (x32000) 
you- you -you -you -you.

	Repeat this progression with these lyrics:

Everyday I'm psychoanalyzed
for my lover, for my lover.
Dope me up and I tell them lies
for my lover, for my lover.---
And everybody thinks... etc.

	Stay on the Cmaj7 the second time through an extra measure, for:

    I follow my heart

    and leave my head to ponder

    deep in this love--- no

man can shake.
	Keep with these chord changes for the rmaining lyrics:
I follow my heart
and leave my mind to wonder,
is this love worth- the sacri-
fices I make?

	Now repeat the from the "Two weeks in a Virginia jail" verse.
	
	Why?:

	The chords used in this are Bm (x24432), G (320003), A (x02220),  
D(add9) (xx0230), and A(add9) (x02420).  The intro is merely alternating  
between Bm and G, and adding hammers-on.  In the case of the Bm hammer-on the  
three fingers other than the one barring at the second fret.  With the G hammer  
on the pointer finger.  After that:

Why do the babies starve, there's enough food to feed the world?
                                         
Why, when there's so many of us are there people still alone?

Why are the missiles called peacekeepers, when they're aimed to kill?
                             
Why is a woman still not safe when she's in her home?

   Love is hate

   war is peace,

   no is yes,-

   we're all free.---- But, some-
 
body's gonna have to answer, the time is coming soon. Amidst

all these questions and contradictions there're 

some who seek the truth.  Tell me...
Then repeat.

	She's Got Her Ticket:
	Chords are ,  and .

	Mountains O' Things
	Chords in this one are Am, Dm, F and G.

	All That You Have Is Your Soul:

	Basic fingerpicking pattern embellished with hammers-on, changing  
between A, E, D, and D(add9) (xx0230).  I think that she might play this capoed  
at the fifth fret, but am not sure.  The version I do is without a capo.  
Hammer-on  "" on the  chord pattern,  "" on the ,  "" on the , and   
"" on the .

	Coming next: April Come She Will by Simon & Garfunkel.

    #                                 LEWIS CARROLL 1832-1898
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    # #  |                          | He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
    #	 | David V. Wong            |       That questioned him in Greek,
    #    | University of Washington |       The Middle of Next Week.
  ###    | Seattle, USA             | `The one thing I regret,' he said,
 #### 	 |__________________________|       `Is that it cannot speak!'
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