...BIG BROTHER... by Stevie Wonder
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*from 'Talking Book' (1972)*


*CAPO 1st FRET*

(Original Key: C#)


Intro:

C  F/G (x8)

Verse 1:

C     F/G         C       F/G
 Your name is big brother,
C    F/G             C     Bb  Am G      Am
 You say that you're watch-ing me on the tele;
                C     F/G  C  F/G
Seeing me go no-where.

Verse 2:

C     F/G         C       F/G
 Your name is big brother,
C    F/G             C     Bb Am G   F
 You say that you're tired of me pro-testing;
F                     C    F/G  C  F/G
 Children dying every-day.

Chorus 1:

G              F
 My name is no-body,
    F Gm    Am   Bb7 Eb       D               C
But I can't wait to  see your face, inside my door.

Interlude:

C  F/G, C  F/G (x2)

Verse 3:

C     F/G         C       F/G
 Your name is big brother,
C    F/G              C  Bb  Am G    F
 You say that you got me all in your notebook;
F                      C    F/G  C  F/G
 Writing it down every-day.

Verse 4:

C     F/G          C      F/G
 Your name is I'll see ya,
C     F/G            C    Bb Am G      F
 I'll change, if you vote me in as the Pres;
    F                 C    F/G  C  F/G
The President of your soul.

Chorus 2:

G              F
 I live in the Ghetto;
F    Gm   Am   Bb7 Eb        D              C
 You just come to  visit me 'round election time.

Interlude:

C  F/G, C  F/G (x2)

Verse 5: (Instrumental)

C  F/G  C  F/G, C  F/G  C  Bb  Am  G  F,
F  C  F/G  C  F/G (x2)

Chorus 3:

G              F
 I live in the Ghetto;
F     Gm  Am Bb7  Eb         D                 C
 Some-day I  will move on my feet to the other side.

Interlude:

C  F/G, C  F/G (x2)

Verse 6:

C   F/G        C       F/G
 My name is se-cluded,
C   F/G       C     Bb  Am   G    F
 We live in a house the size of a matchbox,
F                             C    F/G  C  F/G
 Roaches live with us wall to wall.

Verse 7:

C       F/G            C       F/G
 You've killed all our leaders;
C  F/G        C    Bb Am G       F
 I don't even have to do nothin' to you;
       F                         C    F/G  C  F/G
You'll cause your own country to fall.

Outro:

C  F/G, C  F/G

(Repeat to Fade)


CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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   C       F/G     Bb      Am      G

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 x32010  303210  x13331  x02210  320003

   F       Gm      Bb7     Eb      D

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE
 133211  355333  x13131  x68886  xx0232


Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2004
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)