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Be My Number Two chords by Joe Jackson

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BE MY NUMBER TWO        Joe Jackson

This is just a simple try to adapt this lovley piano-based
ballad to the guitar. If you need it, I maybe could write
down and mail you the tabs as I play it, but firstgive it a go
and work out your own..


INTRO

Chord diagramFF Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramFF Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC am7 gm7 Chord diagramC majorC dm7 Chord diagramC majorC

Chord diagramFF Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramFF Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC am7 gm7 Chord diagramC majorC dm7 Chord diagramC majorC
Verses:


Chord diagramFF                    Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramC majorC
  Won't you be ...

Chord diagramFF                  Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC
  Being number one ...

am7                  gm7     Chord diagramC majorC
  There won't be ....

       dm7               Chord diagramC majorC
  just smile when ...


Chord diagramFF                           Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC
  And there's not ...

Chord diagramFF                      Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramC majorC
  What you get is ...

am7               gm7 Chord diagramC majorC
  Is it worth ...

    dm7            Chord diagramC majorC
  I leave it ...


Break:

Chord diagramBb majorBb    Chord diagramFF          Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramFF
  And if you got ...

Chord diagramBb majorBb      Chord diagramFF          Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramFF
  Don't try to lay off ...

Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramFF              Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramFF
  I know that it's ...

  Chord diagramBb9Bb9                Chord diagramC9C9
  But my heart seemed ...

Chord diagramFF                       Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC
  And every time ...

Chord diagramFF                      Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramC majorC
  you'll be who I ...

am7                gm7   Chord diagramC majorC
  And I'll do ...

     dm7             Chord diagramC majorC        Bb^6
  To make a dream ...

            Bb^6             gm7    Chord diagramFF
  if you be my, if you be ...


Chord diagramFF Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramFF Chord diagramBb majorBb Chord diagramC majorC am7 gm7 Chord diagramC majorC dm7 Chord diagramC majorC

End:

Bb^6 gm7 gm7/c F^79


Chords:

F:        Bb:        C:

e|--1--------x-----------x---
b|--1--------3-----------5---
g|--2--------3-----------5---
d|--3--------3-----------5---
a|--3--------1-----------3---
e|--1--------x-----------x---


Use these chords for the first two lines of each verse and
the break.
The am7, gm7 and dm7 in the rest of each verse are:


am7:   gm7:    dm7:
e|--x------x-------x-------
b|--5------3-------10------
g|--5------3-------10------
d|--5------3-------10------
a|--x------x-------x-------
e|--5------3-------10------


For last Chord diagramC majorC in each verse I take an upper position:

   C:
e|-----x-------------------
b|-----8-------------------
g|-----9-------------------
d|-----10------------------
a|-----x-------------------
e|-----8-------------------


The Chord diagramBb9Bb9 and the Chord diagramC9C9 in the end of the break are:

Bb9:         C9:

e|--x-----------x---
b|--1-----------3---
g|--3-----------5---
d|--3-----------5---
a|--1-----------3---
e|--x-----------x---


So you finally need the chords I play in the end of the Song.
I end up in the 10th position (dm7) and progress in a downward
movement in an ending-sequence to a finally F^7/9:


Play the dm7 at the 10th and the Chord diagramC majorC at the 8th position. Go
down two frets to the 6th position and try a Bbmajor6 like
this:

   Bb^6:
e|---------x--------
b|---------6--------
g|---------7--------
d|---------5--------
a|---------x--------
e|---------6--------

In the ending sequence I use the already mentioned gm7 after which I go over a gm7
add Chord diagramC majorC on b-string at first position,

   gm7/C:
e|---------x---------
b|---------1---------
g|---------3---------
d|---------3---------
a|---------x---------
e|---------3---------


to the last chord, a Chord diagramFF major7/9:


   F^7/9:
e|---------0---------
b|---------1---------
g|---------0---------
d|---------3---------
a|---------x---------
e|---------1---------


I hope you like it and enjoy...   Juergen



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Juergen Helmers               Freie Universitaet Berlin
Tel.: + 49 30 6269734         Institut fuer Biochemie
Fax :(+ 49 30 6269734)        [email protected]
WWW-Page-URL: http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/user/helmers
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