• Song:

    What You Want

  • Artist:

    John Butler Trio

There are quite a few tabs here, all of them very good, but they're all in
open C tuning. I decided to rework the song into standard because it's a
hassle changing tuning so often if you want to busk or whatever. Not being
that good a guitarist though, I only translated the chords and not the riffs,
but I think it went quite well, so enjoy.

Tuning : Standard

Chords used : Cadd9   Asus2     Em      Bm

              e:0      e:0      e:0     e:2
              B:3      B:0      B:0     B:3
              G:0      G:2      G:0     G:4
              D:2      D:2      D:2     D:4
              A:3      A:0      A:2     A:2
              E:x      E:x      E:0     E:x

              F#5      G       D/F#

              e:x      e:x      e:x
              B:x      B:x      B:3
              G:x      G:4      G:2
              D:4      D:5      D:0
              A:4      A:5      A:0
              E:2      E:3      E:2

I included the D/F# chord because in the outro it sounds rather nice and
fits just about as well as the F#5 does, so just pick whichever you think
sounds best.

Intro/Verse:

Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm   x6

                 Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
What you want to say,
Bm                Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
Wait till you get home. 
    Bm          Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
I'm sick of communicating        over the
Bm    Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
Telephone.

    Bm              Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
But tell me how you feel,
Bm          Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
I am lonely too
Bm            Cadd9
  Need you to know
    Asus2  Em         Bm    Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm
I'm just as cold & numb  as you. 

Bridge:

Cadd9 - One bar being the length of the four verse chords, play this for 8
bars. There's lots of fiddlyness here, which you could improvise, or figure
out from the many tabs.

Verse: 

Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm   x4

                Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
But I could fly away,
  Bm             Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
Or I could be no one. 
    Bm           
And you could be the
Cadd9     Asus2  Em      Bm    Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
Sunshine falling over the Mountains 
Bm                  Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em 
Or you could come today 
Bm                   Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
You could come right home 
 Bm               Cadd9
I don't see why I have to
  Asus2     Em     Bm   Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm
Live this life all   alone. 

Bridge:

Cadd9 (Again, there's more fiddly guitar lines here, best to improvise or
have a look at the other tabs)

I know there is a way to make up for old Mistakes 
I know what's happening is for a reason


Outro:

Em | F#5 | G | Asus2
Cadd9                   x4

John starts singing as he plays the Em chord, and ends on the Cadd9 which
lasts a bar. If he sings words I haven't managed to decipher them, but if you
can get the tone with your voice the details don't matter here.
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