WILSON JACKIE - "whispers" Tablature

Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:26:51 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers <rogers@hi.com>
Subject: ./w/wilson_jackie

"Whispers (Gettin' Louder)"
(B. Acklin - D. Scott)

Intro:

Chorus:

Ebmaj7 Ab Ebmaj7 Ab
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

Ebmaj7 Ab
(The whispers gettin' louder)
Ebmaj7 Ab
Calling [2: out] your name Peaches
Ebmaj7 Ab
(The whispers gettin' louder)
Ebmaj7 Bb Ab Gm Fm
Calling your name Peaches

[1st time:]

Fm Gm Bb Ab Gm Ab Gm Fm Bb
v v v v v v v v
-/---/-------/-------/-------/---|-/---/---/---/-------------------

Verse 1:

Ebmaj7 Ab
In my lonely, lonely room
Ebmaj7 Ab
There's nothing left but the past (nothing but the past)
Ebmaj7 Ab
I think of how our love used to be
Ebmaj7 Ab
And why it didn't last

Pre-chorus:

vibes arr. for guitar:

(Eb7) Ab/Eb Eb7
v v v v v v v v
-9---9---8-8---6-|---6-------------
-11--11--9-9---8-|---8-------------
-----------------|-----------------
-----------------|-----------------
-----------------|-----------------
-----------------|-----------------
Eb7
I think of how sweet all the love was (yeah, baby)
Eb7 (Eb7) Ab/Eb Eb7
And all the good times we had (yeah, baby)
Eb7 (Eb7) Ab/Eb Eb7
I want you to come home 'cause I feel so all alone and I feel
(Eb7) Ab/Eb
So sad

[repeat chorus]

Post-chorus:

(acapella w/bass):

v v v v v v v v
---------------------------------|-----------------1---1-----------
-1---------------1---1-----------|---------1---------------3---1---
-----1---3---1-----------4---3---|-1---3-------1-------------------
---------------------------------|---------------------------------
Don't you hear it Peaches Don't you

Ab6 Ab
/ /
v v v v v v v v
---------------------------------|-----------------1---1-----------
-1---------------1---1-----------|---------1---------------3---1---
-----1---3---1-----------4---3---|-1---3-------1-------------------
---------------------------------|---------------------------------
hear it, little baby

Verse 2:

Every time I think about you
I can hear you calling my name (calling my name)
And every time I'm all alone
Those whispers they come back again

[repeat post-chorus]

Coda [chords as per pre-chorus]:

(The whispers gettin' louder) Whispers gettin' louder
(The whispers gettin' louder) Callin' your name
(The whispers gettin' louder) Hear me, baby
(The whispers gettin' louder) Callin' to you [fade]


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers