I Dont Want To Talk About It by Everything But The Girl, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

I Dont Want To Talk About It

Biography:

Everything But the Girl (EBTG), was a Hull, Yorkshire, UK, folk-pop / trip-hop duo of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn. They débuted with a single for a Cole Porter cover, Night And Day (Mar 1982, Cherry Red). Their final album was Temperamental (Sept 1999, Virgin).

Ben met Tracey when they were at Hull University and she was singing in pop girl-band Marine Girls. Ben contributed a photograph, for a forthcoming album cover, after which, the pair became partners (later getting married).

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Song: I don't want to talk about it
Artist: Everything but the girl
Composer: Danny Whitten
Album: Idlewild

Tabbed by: DJ
18th June 2014

CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of C#m)

Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Bm7 = x24232 D = xx4232 Eb = xx5343
Bm7 * = x24235 E = xx6454 A ** = 577655
Bm7/E = 024232 A * = x07650 G = 355433
A = x02220 Amaj7/G# = 406650 Em = 022000
A4 = x02230 F#m = 244222 Aadd9 = x07657
A/C# = x42220 F#m7/E = 022222

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[Intro]
Bm7 Bm7 * Bm7 Bm7/E A A4 A
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |

[Verse 1]
A A/C# Bm7 Bm7 *
I can tell ...by your eyes,
Bm7 Bm7/E A A4 A
That you've probably ...been crying ...for - ever,
A A/C# Bm7 Bm7/E
And the stars ...in the sky ...don't mean nothing ...to you,
A A4 A
They're a mirror!

[Chorus]
D E
I don't wanna ...talk about it,
A * Amaj7/G# F#m F#m7/E
How you broke my heart,
D E
If I stay here just a little bit longer,
E Eb D E
If I stay here won't you listen...
Bm7 Bm7 * Bm7 Bm7/E A A4 A
...To my heart---? Oh - oo - oh, my heart!

[Verse 2]
A A/C# Bm7
If I stand all alone,
Bm7/E A
Will the shadow hide the colours of my heart?
A4 A A/C#
Blue for the tears, black for the nights' fears,
Bm7 Bm7/E
The stars ...in the sky ...don't mean nothing ...to you,
A A4 A ** G F#m Em
They're--- a mirror! | / / / / |

[Chorus]
D E
I don't wanna ...talk about it,
A * Amaj7/G# F#m F#m7/E
How you broke my heart,
D E
If I stay here just a little bit longer,
E Eb D E
If I stay here won't you listen...
Bm7 Bm7 * Bm7/E A A4 A
...To my heart--------------? Hoh, my ...heart---------!

[Break]
Bm7 Bm7 * Bm7 Bm7/E A A4 A A/C#
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |

Bm7 Bm7 * Bm7 Bm7/E A A4 A ** G F#m Em
| / / / / | / / / / | / / / / | / / / / |

[Chorus]
D E
I don't wanna ...talk about it,
A * Amaj7/G# F#m F#m7/E
How you broke this old heart,
D E
If I stay here just a little bit longer,
E Eb D E
If I stay here won't you listen...
Bm7 Bm7 * Bm7/E A A4 A
...To my heart----------------------? Woh - oh, my heart-------!
Bm7 Bm7 * Bm7/E A A4 A
...My foolin' heart----------------, my ...heart!

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[Additional Coda sometimes used in live performances]
Aadd9
e|-----------------------|----------7--||
B|---------------5-------|--------5----||
G|-------2/4--/6---6--4--|------6------||
D|--2/4------------------|----7--------||
A|-----------------------|--0----------||
E|-----------------------|-------------||