Nobody Loves You

Artist: John Lennon (English)
User: gwellings65
Duration: 130 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
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Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out) – John Lennon
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Written by: John Lennon
Recorded in 1974, this acoustic demo was released as a bonus track 
  on the 2005 re-issue of "Walls and Bridges"

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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CHORDS

           E-A-D-G-B-e 
 Dsus2     x-x-0-2-3-0
 E7        0-2-2-1-3-0
 G         3-x-0-0-3-3

 Daug      x-x-0-3-3-2
 D6        x-x-0-4-3-2



[Intro]
D

(engineer): Nine
(Lennon): Nine is the lucky number ... two, three, four

 | D | E7 | G | D | 
 | D | E7 | G |  D  | 
              (break)


[Verse]
 D                             E7 
  Nobody loves you when you're down and out

 G                            D 
  Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine

                            (break)
 D                           E7
  Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime

 G                           D
  I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine

                           (break)

[Bridge]
 D                        Daug
  I've been across to the other side

 D6                                F#              G F#
  I've shown you everything, I got nothing to hide

G                A           D
   But still you ask me do I love you

        Bm
What it is, what it is

G           Gm7              D             B7
  All I can tell you is it's all show biz

G           Gm7              D
  All I can tell you is it's all show biz

                           (break)
N.C.                                       [ D ]
What it is, what it is, what it is, what it is


[Verse]
D                              E7
  Nobody loves you when you're down and out

G                              D               Dsus2 [ D ]
  Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine

D                            E7
  Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime

G                            D
  I'll scratch your back and you knife mine

                           (break)


[Bridge]
D                                 Daug
  I've been across the water now ... so many times

D6                                   F#                 G F#
  I've seen the one eyed witchdoctor leading the blind

G                A           D
   And still you ask me do I love you

         Bm
What you say, what you say

G                    Gm7              D            B7
  Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away

G                    Gm7              D     
  Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away

                                    (break)
N.C.                                              [ D ]
What you say, what you say, what you say, what you say

[Solo]
 | D | E7 | G | D |
 | D | E7 | G | D |


[Middle 8]
       D
Well I get up in the morning 

        Daug                     D6   G     A     D
And I'm looking in the mirror to see, oo-oo-oo-oo wee!

                                                (break)
         D
Then I'm lying in the darkness 

      Daug                D6     G     A     D
And I know I can't get to sleep, oo-oo-oo-oo wee!

                                           (break)
N.C.
(... two, three, four – one, two three, four)


[Verse]
D                              E7
  Nobody loves you when you're old and grey

G                              D             Dsus2 [ D ]
  Nobody needs you when you're upside down

D                                   E7
  Everybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday

G                                 D
  Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground 

                                (break)
[Outro]
| D | E7 | G | D    Dsus2 |
(whistling)

| D | E7 | G | D    Dsus2 |
(whistling)


(repeat and fade)

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