Bing Crosby - If i had a talking picture of you
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Capo: 3
Tuning: E A D G B E
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If I had a talking picture of you BG de Sylva / Lew Brown
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Tabbed by: Mike Lydiat
E-mail: mike@docsworkshop.co.uk
Tuning:EADGBE
To play along to Bing Crosby's version you need the Capo on fret 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfnCmY0NDk
Also Capo 3 for this version by Johnny Marvin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZuKw6ZJqg
VERSE CHORD SHAPES
Dm9 G6 C A7 F9 Fm Cmaj7 Am D G G+
e|-0---0---0--3--3--1--0-----0--2--3--3--|
B|-3---3---1--2--1--1--0-----1--3--0--0--|
G|-2---0---0--0--2--1--0-----2--2--0--0--|
D|-3---0---2--2--3--3--2-----2--0--0--1--|
A|-0---2---3--0--0--3--3-----0--0--2--2--|
E|-x---3---x--x--1--1--x-----0--x--3--3--|
CHORUS CHORD SHAPES
C G G7 A7 Dm D7 G+ E Am
e|-0--3--1--0--1--2--3--0--0--|
B|-1--0--0--2--3--1--0--0--1--|
G|-0--0--0--0--2--2--0--1--2--|
D|-2--0--0--2--3--0--1--2--3--|
A|-3--2--2--0--0--0--2--2--0--|
E|-x--3--3--x--x--x--3--0--x--|
There's a nice little 2 bar Am run-down I use on the penultimate line of each chorus:
|0-0-|0-0-| You keep an ordinary Am chord in place
|1-1-|1-1-|
|2-2-|2-2-| and you change the bass note from A to G to F# to F
|2-2-|2-2-|
|0-x-|x---| I use my little finger for the G note and my thumb for the F# and F
|x-3-|2-1-|
[VERSE 1]
Dm9I talk to your G6photograph each Cday
Dm9You should hear the G6lovely things I A7say
F9But I thought how Fmhappy I would Cmaj7be
AmIf your photoDgraph could talk to Gme. G+
[CHORUS]
If I Chad a talking picture of Gyou,
I would G7run it every time I felt Cblue.
I would A7sit there in the gloom of my Dmlonely little room
And appD9laud each time you whispered, "I Glove you; G+love you."
On the Cscreen the moment you came in Gview
We would G7talk the whole thing over, we Etwo.
I would Amgive ten shows a day, and a midnight matinée,
If I Dmhad a talking G7picture of Cyou.
[VERSE 2]
Dm9All I have to G6keep me compaCny
Dm9Is the photoG6graph you gave to A7me
F9I propose a Fmthousand plans but Cmaj7oh
AmIt don't answer 'DYes' or even 'GNo'