WAITS TOM - "better off without a wife" Tablature

From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)
Subject: CRD: Better Off Without a Wife (T. Waits)

BETTER OFF WITHOUT A WIFE (Tom Waits)
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-- comp. Tom Waits (from _Nighthawks_at_the_Diner_)
-- "transcr." tcg [recently divorced!], 198?
-- 4/4 // Key of G // Andante (pretty slow)
-- each chord symbol OR slash = 1 beat


"Odd" Voicings--
D7sus4 D7sus4/G C/G D7/F#
xxo___ __o___ ______ __o___
1 ||||1| 1 ||||1| 1 ||||1| 1 ||||1|
|||2|| |||2|| ||2||| 2x|3|4
|||||3 3x|||4 3x|||4 ||||||



INTRO: 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4
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G / D7sus4/G / | G / D7sus4/G /
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G D7/F# Em(7) / | Am(7) / D(7) /


VERSE 1:
G / D7sus4 /
All ...
G / D7sus4 /
Ev'ry ...
G D7/F# Em(7) / Am(7) / D(7) /
It ...
G / D7sus4 /
Here's ...
G / D7sus4 /
Those ..
G Em Am(7) D(7) G C/G G /
Better ..


CHORUS:
C / D(7) /
I been ...
G D7/F# Em /
Midnight ..
Am(7) / D(7) /
Goin' ..
G / G7 /
Comin' ..
C / D(7) /
Don't ..
G D7/F# Em /
If ...
Am(7) / / / D7sus4 / D7 /
Never ..


VERSE 2 [!!]:
G / D7sus4 /
Well, ..
G / D7sus4 /
But ..
G D7/F# Em(7) / Am(7) / D(7) /
Left ..
G / D7sus4 /
He was ..
G / D7sus4 /
Said ..
G Em Am(7) D(7) G C/G G /
You ...


CHORUS


VERSE 3: [_underlined_phrases_are_spoken_, ad-lib style]

G / D7sus4 / G / D7sus4 /
_Ah,_..
G D7/F# Em(7) / Am(7) /
Now ..
D(7) /
_hardly_..
G / D7sus4 /
Love ..
G / D7sus4 /
I been ..
G Em Am(7) D(7) G C/G G /
I'm ...


CHORUS
[...recording ends (& begins) with some "Here Comes the Bride" piano!]

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