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                        Better Man - Steve Williams Band
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Tabbed by: Jeff Sorensen
Email: burntash@metalgel.com

Tuning: Standard, Capo 2

Note: Em takes the form of Em7 during picking

Chords used:  

     C     Em    D     Am    G     F
e|---0-----0-----2-----0-----3-----1-----|
B|---1-----0-----3-----1-----3-----1-----|
G|---0-----0-----2-----2-----0-----2-----|
D|---2-----2-----0-----2-----0-----3-----|
A|---3-----2-----x-----0-----2-----3-----|
E|---x-----0-----x-----x-----3-----1-----|

Standard Tuning, Capo 2nd Fret

Intro & Verse picking:

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

Intro: C - Em - C - Em7 - D

Verse 1:

C
It was 1985
Em                        C
When your son and I drove by
                     Em   D
And saw you standing there
C
Outside the liquor store
Em                      C
With a bottle in your hand
                    Em   D
Living the life you chose

Pre-Chorus:

Am             G    C
I always wondered why
                 Am
We just drove on by
                    D
I never saw you again

Chorus:

G                       Am
You never tried to be a better man
     Em          C
You chose to run instead
G          Am
All of the guilt you carried
     Em             C
Was written on your face
G                Am
I never knew the day you died
      Em             C
Would take it all away

Verse 2:

C
Soon his mother died
Em
And all the locked up pain inside
C        Em          D
Began to rear its head
C
And all the memories
Em
Like some old bad disease
C           Em       D
Was finally put to bed

Pre-Chorus:

Am                G  C
I always wondered why
                 Am
We just drove on by
                    D
But now I understand

(Chorus)

Bridge: F - C - F - C - D

(chorus)

| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| B  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
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