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To Love Somebody (Capo 2)
Bee Gees
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00:00 Song Demo
01:28 Lesson Intro
02:08 Chords (capo 2)
04:05 Chords (no capo)
05:59 Intro Riff
15:55 Strumming Expression!
17:09 Strumming Pattern
20:23 Chorus dynamics
22:31 Lesson Outro
Alternate version(s):
To Love Somebody (no capo)

CAPO 2

 

[INTRO]

  G           F              C     G

|--x--0--3--0--5--3--0-----|--0-----x------------|

|--3-----------6--------1--|--1-----3------------|

|--0-----------5-----------|--0-----0------------|

|--0-----------------------|--2-----0------------|

|--x-----------------------|--3-----x------------|

|--3-----------------------|--------3------------|

 

(you can play the above riff or strum the chords below)

 

|G  F  |C  G  |G      |G       |

 // //  /  /// ////    ////

 

[VERSE 1]

           G    Am

There's a light

                        C

A certain kind of light

                    G   F

That never shone on me

                  G             D

I want my life to be lived with you

           C

Lived with you

 

          G  Am               C

There's a way,   everybody say

                            G     F

To do each and every little thing

                      G

But what good does it bring?

           D              C

If I ain't got you, ain't got you, hey babe

 

[CHORUS]

G                        D

You don't know what it's like, baby

C                        G

You don't know what it's like

            D

To love somebody

            C

To love somebody

          G

The way I love you

 


 

 

[INTERLUDE]

  G           F              C     G

|--x--0--3--0--5--3--0-----|--0-----x------------|

|--3-----------6--------1--|--1-----3------------|

|--0-----------5-----------|--0-----0------------|

|--0-----------------------|--2-----0------------|

|--x-----------------------|--3-----x------------|

|--3-----------------------|--------3------------|

 

(you can play the above riff or strum the chords below)

 

|G  F  |C  G  |G      |G       |

 // //  /  /// ////    ////

 

[VERSE 2]

     G      Am

In my brain,

                      C

I see your face again

                   G    F

I know my frame of mind

                       G

You ain't got to be so blind

        D              C

And I'm blind, so very blind

     G   Am

I'm a man,   can't you see

           C

What I am?

                       G   F

I live and breathe for you

                      G

But what good does it do

           D              C

If I ain't got you, ain't got?

 

[CHORUS]

G                       D

You don't know what its like, baby

C                        G

You don't know what it's like

            D

To love somebody

            C

To love somebody

          G

The way I love you 

 

D

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh no no

 

G                       D

You don't know what its like, baby

C                        G

You don't know what it's like

            D

To love somebody

            C

To love somebody

          G

The way I love you 

 

D                 

No no no no no no no

 

G                       D

You don't know what its like, baby

C                        G

You don't know what it's like

            D

To love somebody

            C

To love somebody