SPICE GIRLS - "Wannabe" Tablature

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Wannabe - Performed by the Spice Girls, From the Virgin album SPICE

YO!
B D
I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want
E A A#
So tell me what you want, what you really really want
B D
I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want
E A A#
So tell me what you want, what you really really want
B D
I wanna (huh) I wanna (huh) I wanna (huh) I wanna (huh)
E A A#
I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ahh!

F# G#
If you want my future
E B
Forget my past
F# G#
If you wanna get with me
E B
Betta make it fast
F# G#
Now don't go wasting
E B
My precious time
F# G#
Get your act together
E B
We could be just fine

CHORUS:
N.C B D
I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want
E A A#
So tell me what you want, what you really really want
B D
I wanna (huh) I wanna (huh) I wanna (huh) I wanna (huh)
E A A#
I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ahh!

F# G#
If you wanna be my lover
E B
You gotta get with my friends
F# G#
Make it last forever
E B
Friendship never ends
F# G#
If you wanna be my lover
E B
You have got to give
F# G#
Taking is too easy
E B
But that's the way it is

N.C
What d'you think about that
E B
Now you know how I feel?
F# G#
Say you can handle my love
E B
Are you for real?
F# G#
I won't be hasty
E B
I'll give you a try
F# G#
If you really bug me
E B
Then I'll say goodbye!


YO!
So.. Here's the story from A to Z } All of this is
You wanna get with me, you gotta listen carefully } played over the
We've got 'M' in the place who likes it in her face } b-d-e-a-a# chord
You got 'G' lock MC who likes it on a.. } progression 3
Easy V doesn't come for free, she's a real lady } times, no more
And as for me, ha you'll see! } no less...

B D
Slam me body down and wind it all around
N.C
Slam me body down and wind it all around
F# G#
If you wanna be my lover
E B
You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta,

Ad lib for a bit..
E A A#
Slam me body down and zigazig ahh
F#
If you wanna be my lover
END

Notes:

The best way to play the b-d-e-a-a#-b bits is as follows

e ---------------------------------
b -----SLIDE----SLIDE--------------
g -4--4--/--7--7--/--9--9--2--2--3- Repeat and
d -4--4--/--7--7--/--9--9--2--2--3- so on.....
a -2--2--/--5--5--/--7--7--0--0--1-
e ---------------------------------

Any comments or queries, drop me a line, Webble@dircon.co.uk

Transcribed by Lee Webb.
The chord timings are not spot on, but i`m sure you`ll all be ok!!!!

YOU MAY FREELY DISTRIBUTE THIS FILE ONLY IN ITS PRESENT FORM!!!!
FAILURE TO COMPLY MAY RESULT IN BROKEN LEGS!!!!
(The author is 6 foot 4 and `quite handy`)

Legal Stuff:

As usual, this is my own interpretation of this piece and is intended for private study, research and scholarship, though what you could learn from
5 insane British women is quite frankly beyond me...

Say You`ll Be There coming soon...
2 become 1 coming a bit after that...

Also Available by e-mailing the author:

Ohh Ahh Just a Little Bit (Gina G)
Three Lions (Lightning Seeds, Baddiel and Skinner)

(c)December 1996 Useless Transcriptions inc.



Wannabe : Spice Girls

transcribed by Trevor Borgmeier (tjborgmeier@bigfoot.com)

Chords
verse Chorus
F# G#m E B7 B5 D5 G5 A5 A#5
2 4 0 2 x x x x x
2 4 0 4 x x x x x
3 4 1 2 x 7 9 x x
4 6 2 4 9 7 9 7 8
4 6 2 2 9 5 7 7 8
2 4 0 2 7 x x 5 7

bass intro=
B D G A A#
A|-------5--5--7--7----------- repeat
E|-7--7--------------5--5--6--

Chorus riff = B5 D5 G5 A5 A#5
Verse riff = F# G#m E B7

chorus/intro riff x3
verse riff x4
chorus/intro riff x2
verse riff x4
low E-14/4-- slow slide x1
verse riff start w/E x3.5
chorus/intro riff x2
if you wanna be my lover...
verse riff start w/E x3.5
chorus/intro riff x3.5
slam your body down and wind it all around
verse riff x8
chorus/intro riff x2
if ya wanna be my lover...