What Do You Want chords by The Tubes

Chords with lyrics

What Do You Want From Life ?   Spooner/Evans   the Tubes
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Intro: [bass synth]

    Bb majorBb    Bb majorBb    Bb majorBb   FF
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   -1h3-3-3--1h3-3-3--1h3-1h3----------
   ---------------------------1h3-1h3--


    [acoustic, doubled on piano]
                   C minorCm
   -3----------------------------------------
   ---6-4-3---6-4-3-----4-3-------3----------
   -----------------5-------5-3-----5-3------
   -------------------------------------6-5--
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Verse 1:

  C minorCm          FF
   What do want ...
     G#G#          G+G
   To kidnap an heiress or ...
  C minorCm          FF
   What do want from ...
     G#G#        G+G
   To get cable TV and watch ...


Chorus 1: [faster, honky tonk]

   C minorCm          FF
   There you'll sit - a lump ...
          G#G#          G+G           FF
   Where do you sleep and what do ...


Verse 2: [original tempo]

  C minorCm          FF
   What do want ..
     G#G#       G+G
   An Indian Guru to show ...
  C minorCm          FF
   What do want ...
    G#G#               G+G             A->Bb
   A augmentedA meaningless love affair with a ...

Bridge 1: [stately]

  Bb majorBb               FF          [bkgrnd]
   How can you tell when you're ...(do-do-do-do)
        C majorC                G+G      G->A->Bb
   Does your bank account swell wh....
  Bb majorBb               FF
   How do you know when ...?   (do-do-do-do)
     C majorC            C#C#              G#G#
   Do violins play when you're touching ....
   A augmentedA        G#G#
   Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....


Verse 3: [modulates up a tone]

  C# minorC#m         F#F#
   What do want from life...
   A augmentedA          G#G#
   Someone to love and ...
  C# minorC#m         F#F#
   What do want from life? (what ....
     A augmentedA             G#G#
   To try and be happy while you do ....


 [Bass Synth Interlude, funky, over C#C#]

 [Wah Guitar solo over C#C#]


  C# minorC#m         F#F#    A augmentedA           G#G#
   What do want from life ? (what ...
  C# minorC#m         F#F#    A augmentedA           G#G#
   What do want from life ? (what DO ....



 (*) remember him? the 70s TV show "The Rookies"? Nurse Jill on duty
   on every shift on every floor...

 - another ace 70s tab from Dave Turner & Tim Willett