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I've Got a Thing About You Baby – Elvis Presley
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Elvis Presley
I've Got a Thing About You Baby (1973)
(Tony Joe White)
From: "Good Times"
Re-released on: "Elvis at Stax"
Outtakes on:
"Rhythm And Country - Essential Elvis Vol. 5" and
"Elvis at Stax [Deluxe Edition]"
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INTRO (Bass)
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A|----9-7---------|7---9-7-----7---|
E|----------9-7-9-|--------7h9-----|
RIFF
E
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D|--------9-7-6---|6---7---9-------|--------9-7-6---|6---7---6-------|
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
A/E 0-2-2-2-2-x = Esus4(add13)
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INTRO
(bass) (+ organ riff)
| E | % | % | % |
VERSE
E
I've got something to tell you
E [ A/E ]
That I think you ought to know
E
That my eyes are on you baby
E [ A/E ]
Since a long time ago
VERSE
E
And now I fin'ly got the nerve
E [ A/E ]
And I'm gonna make my move
E
Now don't you try to turn me off
E
Cause it's gonna be hard to do
CHORUS
A G#m
I've got a thing about you baby
F#m E
Ain't nothing I can do
A G#m
I've got a thing about you baby
F#m [E]
A thing about lovin' you
INTERLUDE (riff)
| E | % | % | % |
VERSE
E [ A/E ]
Ain't no two ways about it baby
E [ A/E ]
Your love was meant for me
E
You know I just can't live without it
E
It fits me to a T
E
Oooh there's something about you baby
[ A/E ] E [ A/E E ]
Can't get you off my mind
E [ A/E ]
I know that I can't live without you
E
I think about you all the time
CHORUS
A G#m
I've got a thing about you baby
F#m E
Ain't nothing I can do
A G#m
I've got a thing about you baby
F#m [ E ]
A thing about lovin' you (Riff)
INTERLUDE (riff)
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VERSE
E [ A/E ]
Ain't it just like a woman
E
When she knows she's got a man
E [ A/E ]
She'll wring you out and turn you 'bout
E
In the palm of her hand
E
And then she starts to thinkin'
[ A/E ] E
Then maybe she's put you in a blind
E [ A/E ]
She'll give you just a little lovin'
E
It'll drive you out of your mind
CHORUS
A G#m
I've got a thing about you baby
F#m E
Ain't nothing I can do
A G#m
I've got a thing about you baby
F#m E
A thing about lovin' you
CHORUS
A G#m
I've got a thing about you baby
F#m E
Ain't nothing I can do
A G#m
I've got a thing about you baby
F#m E
A thing about lovin' you
(repeat and fade)