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Thank Me In The Morning

by Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals

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THANK ME IN THE MORNING - Ben Harper
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Tabbed by: Rod Nolan
Email: [email protected]

This song isn't on any album yet but the video is on Ben Harper's You Tube channel; just
search for Webisode 7

Verse 1
D
It's too late to know
G
Just what we could have been
D
Don't want to have this conversation
G
Ever again
C
When you walk right through my door
C C/B Am
Without any warning
Am
Please don't say a word
C C/B G
Just thank me in the morning

Verse 2
D
You hide sorrow in a smile
G
Forever in a little while
D
Hide a lock inside a key
G
and you hide your love inside of me
C
But some day you'll go your way
C C/B Am
and someday I'll lose mine
Am
It's hailing and it's storming
C C/B G
So just thank me in the morning

solo
C
C C/B Am
Am
C C/B G

Verse 3
D
Now you're screaming at me
G
gritted teeth and clenched fists
D
How can you stand there and act
G
as though love is not a risk
C
And you And you cry, "I'm not to blame"
C C/B Am
You said, "It's just the world I was born in"
Am B C
You can't reach me now
C C/B G
but you can thank me in the morning

Am
Please don't say a word
C C/B G
just thank me in the morning
Am
You can't reach me now
C C/B G
but you can thank me in the morning

Here are some of the fills

fill 1 - played as a lead in to the D chord while singing... "It's too late to... "
e|--------------2----|
B|--------------3----|
G|-2-/4-2-0----2----|
D|-----------2--0----|
A|-------------------|
E|-------------------|

fill 2 - played over the D chord just after "... know"

e|--2-------2--------|
B|--3-3-3-3-3--------|
G|--2-4-2-4-2--------|
D|--0-------0--------|
A|-------------------|
E|-------------------|

fill 3 - played as a lead in to the G chord while singing... "Don't want to have this conver..."
e|---------------x---|
B|---------------3---|
G|-2-/4-2-0-2/4-0---|
D|---------------0---|
A|---------------x---|
E|---------------3---|

fill 4 - played over the G chord just after "...sation"
e|-------------------| e|-------------------|
B|----------3--------| B|----------3--------|
G|--0-------0--------| or G|--0-2-0-2-0--------|
D|--0-2-0-2-0--------| D|--0-------0--------|
A|--x-------x--------| A|--x-------x--------|
E|--3-------3--------| E|--3-------3--------|