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Who Are You
by The Who
written by Pete Townshend
from Who Are You, 1978

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transcribed by
litgo@aol.com
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[note: leads are approximate.]

E (chorus)  (0)7999x
D/E (chorus) (0)7777x
A/E (chorus) xx11 9 10 x
E (chor II) xx999x
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E (verse)  0799(9)x
D (verse)  0577(7)x
A (verse)  0022(2)x

D/E (outro) x(0)2232
A/E (outro) x(0)2220 and 3x2220
G  (outro) xx12 12 12 x
C/G (outro) xx14 12 13 x

[Intro]
 E [no chord]
|--------|-----------|---------------------|
|--------|--14^------|-15/12/14------------|
|--------|-----------|---------------------|
|--------|-----------|---------------------|
|--------|-----------|---------------------|
|--------|-----------|---------------------|

|-------------|---------|----15-15-|-15-15-12--------|
|-15/12-14-14-|-12------|----15^15^|-15^15^15-12-----|
|-------------|---------|----------|----------14^\^--|
|-------------|---------|----------|-----------------|
|-------------|---------|----------|-----------------|
|-------------|------12\|----------|-----------------|


|-12-------------|---------------------|
|----15/12----12-|---------------------|
|----------14----|-12------------------|
|----------------|----14\--------------|
|----------------|---------------------|
|----------------|---------------------|

|-----------|----------|---------------------|
|-----------|----------|-------------3-3-----|
|-----------|---7\-----|-------------0-2-----|
|-7-9-12-12-|-9-7\-----|-------------0-0-----|
|-----------|----------|---------------------|
|-----------|----------|---------------------|


[Chorus]
|| E  D/E|  | A/E E  A/E E  |  ||
|| Who are you, who ....|  ||
||--------|----|------------------|----||
||-9---7--|----|-10--9----10--9---|----||
||-9---7--|----|-9---9----9---9---|----||
||-9---7--|----|-11--9----11--9---|----||
||-7---7--|----|------------------|----||
||(0)-(0)-|----|------------------|----||


E       |D        |
I woke up in a ....
 A        |C G *    |
A policeman ...

You can go sleep ....


E          |D        |
I remember throwin' ...

|A        |C G  D/F#  A **|
 preachin' from my ....

   | E  D/E|   A/E E  A/E E |
Who are you
    (Who are you, who ....

I took the tube back out ....

[repeat chorus]

----------|---------------------|---------------------|
-14^-12^--|----------------(12)-|----(7)--------------|
-14^-12^--|-9--------------(12)-|----(7)--------------|
----------|-9--------------(12)-|----(7)--------------|
----------|-7-------------------|---------------------|
----------|-0-------------------|-----------------12\-|
              harm   harm

[acoust. solo]
|---------------------------|-----0-----0--------------|
|---------------------------|-------------------5--7---|
|---------------------------|-------------------7--9---|
|---------------------------|-------------------5--7---|
|-7-7-7-7-7--5---------5/7--|--5/7--5/7----------------|
|--------------7-5/3/0------|--------------------------|

|-------------------|---------------------|
|-------------------|---------------------|
|-------------------|---------------------|
|-------------5/7---|-------5/7-------5/7-| etc.
|-5/7-7-7-7-7-------|-7-7-7-----7-7-7-----|
|-------------------|---------------------|

|| E  |  G D | E  |  G D ||
||-0----|---3-2-|-0----|---3-2-||
||-0----|---3-3-|-0----|---3-3-||
||-5----|---0-2-|-5----|---0-2-||
||-2----|---0---|-2----|---0---||
||-2----|-------|-2----|-------||
||-0----|--(3)--|-0----|-------||


|  E  | G D |   E  | G D |
  Who.....................are you

|| E  E6 E  ||
|| Who wa-ooh..||
||-------------||
||-9---12-9----||
||-9---9--9----||
||-9---11-9----||
||-------------||
||(0)----------||



 [piano line arr. for guitar]
 E E6 E....
|-------|---------|----------------|-----|
|-----14|-14-16-16|----------------|-----|
|-------|---------|-13-13-11-11/13-|-----|
|-------|---------|----------------|-----|
|-------|---------|----------------|-----|
|-------|---------|----------------|-----|

|-------|---------|--------------------|-----|
|----14-|14-16-16-|--------------------|-----|
|-------|---------|-13-13--15-16-15-16-|-----|
|-------|---------|--------------------|-----|
|-------|---------|--------------------|-----|
|-------|---------|--------------------|-----|

|----|---------14-14-|14-16-14-16--|-----|
|-14-|14-16-16-------|-------------|-----|
|----|---------------|-------------|-----|
|----|---------------|-------------|-----|
|----|---------------|-------------|-----|
|----|---------------|-------------|-----|

|-16-14-16----------|------------------|
|----------14-12-14-|------------------|
|-------------------|-13-11-13---------|
|-------------------|----------11-9-11-|
|-------------------|------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|

|| E E |  G D | E E  |  G D ||
||---0--|---3-2-|----0----|---3-2-||
||---0--|---3-3-|----0----|---3-3-||
||---5--|---0-2-|----5----|---0-2-||
||---2--|---0---|----2----|---0---||
||---2--|-------|----2----|-------||
||-0-0--|--(3)--|-0--0----|-------||

[repeat chorus]

 [lead during chorus]
|-9--------|---------|---------------------|
|-12-9-12-9|---------|--9------------------|
|----------|-11-9----|----11/9-9-----------|
|----------|---------|---------------------|
|----------|---------|---------------------|
|----------|---------|---------------------|

|-12--12-----|----16^\-|
|-15^^--15^--|---------|
|------------|---------|
|------------|---------|
|------------|---------|
|------------|---------|

|-16\----12----------|---------------------------|
|-----15----15/12----|---------------------------|
|-----------------14-|-----------12-----------12-|
|--------------------|------12/14--------12/14---|
|--------------------|-12/14--------12/14--------|
|--------------------|---------------------------|


||-12-12-12------12-12-12------||
||-12-12-12------12-12-12------||
||-9-------------(9)-----------||
||-----------------------------||
||-----------------------------||
||-----------------------------||
 [repeat over second chorus]

I know there's a place ....

[repeat chorus]

[outro]

    A/E | D/E / / A/E  |
(Who....)
        I really ....

| G G C/G / //
|(Who....)
| know... Oh, I ...

|D/A // A | D/A / /  A
(Who....)
 know   C'mon tell ...

|A  A | A  ///  |E
 (ahh.....)
 you you you who ....


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*note: lick for end of verse lines:
|----------3--------|
|----------3--------|
|----------0--------|
|-------------------|
|-3/2-0-------------|
|-------2/3---------|

** note 2: lick for end of verse:
|-3-3-2-2-0--|
|-1-3-3-3-2--|
|-0-0-2-2-2--|
|------------|
|------------|
|------------|


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