I Want To Know What Love Is tab by Foreigner

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: F#

Difficulty: Novice

CAPO 1. This tab includes all the keyboard/synthesizer interludes when they occur within the standard chorded
tablature. For what it's worth, I don't think one single guitar was used in the production of this song,
but if you like to play along and not miss parts, here you have it.

Intro:

e|-------|-1---0---|-----|
B|-------|---3---1-|-----|
G|-------|---------|-3-2-|
D|-7-5-7-|---------|-----|
A|-------|---------|-----|
E|-------|---------|-----|

Verse:

           F       Bb          Dm
I gotta take a little time, a little time to think things over
       C (one strum)  F      Bb        Dm  (music swells)
I better read between the lines, in case I need it when I'm older

e|-----1---|                         |------1---|
B|-------3-|                         |--------3-|
G|---2-----| (play before "Now this mountain...")      |---2------| (play after "upon my shoulders...")
D|-3-------|                         |-3--------|
A|---------|                         |----------|
E|---------|                         |----------|

         C (one strum)F        Bb      Dm
Now this mountain I must climb, feels like the world upon my shoulders

             e|-1---0---|
             B|---3---1-|
             G|---------|
             D|---------|
             A|---------|
             E|---------|

          C (one strum)  F       Bb         Dm
Through the clouds I see love shine, it keeps me warm as life grows colder
   G         C       G
In my life there's been heartache and pain
    G       C    G                  |--------------------| (If you don't like
I don't know if I can face it again                |--------------------| too much chord
G          C      G    F   A  A#  A C  |---2-3-2------------| switching, you can
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far, to change this lone-ly life |-3-------3----------| also just play
                                 |-----------3s5-5b-3-| this bit.)
                                 |--------------------|

Chorus: (Hit the (Dm) if you like; I think it plays cleaner if you just go straight to C)

               |---------|
               |---------|
F          (Dm) C |-5---2-3-|
I want to know what love is, |---5-----|
               |---------|
               |---------|

           |---------|
           |---------|
G       C    |-5---2---|
I want you to show me |---5---4-|
           |---------|
           |---------|

F          (Dm) C
I want to feel what love is, (same as above)

            |---------------|
            |---------------|
G       C    |-5---2-3-2-0---|
I know you can show me |---5---------3-|
            |---------------|
            |---------------|

Verse:

e|-------1---|
B|-----3---3-|
G|---2-------| (prior to vocals then again after "...look around me")
D|-3---------|
A|-----------|
E|-----------|

            F       C          Dm
I'm gonna take a little time, a little time to look around me

                |-1---0---|
                |---3---1-|
             F   |---------|        C           Dm
I've got nowhere left to hide, |---------| it looks like love has finally found me (play the interlude to
                |---------|                     the left again after
                |---------|                     this line ends)

   G         C       G
In my life there's been heartache and pain
    G       C    G
I don't know if I can face it again
G          C      G    F   A  A#  A C
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far, to change this lonely life

Chorus: (Hit the (Dm) if you like; I think it plays cleaner if you just go straight to C)

               |---------|
               |---------|
F          (Dm) C |-5---2-3-|
I want to know what love is, |---5-----|
               |---------|
               |---------|

           |---------|
           |---------|
G       C    |-5---2---|
I want you to show me |---5---4-|
           |---------|
           |---------|

F          (Dm) C
I want to feel what love is, (same as above)

            |---------------|
            |---------------|
G       C    |-5---2-3-2-0---|
I know you can show me |---5---------3-|
            |---------------|
            |---------------|

The ensuing outro is a repetition of the above chords and interludes from the chorus. There isn't really
a "solo" so to speak at any point.

🏷Legend:

s - slide up
b - bend up