Biography:
Joan Armatrading MBE (born Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading in Basseterre, Saint Kitts on 9 December 1950) and brought up in Birmingham, England, is a British singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Armatrading has mixed eclectic musical styles over decades of recording and performing. She has had several British hit singles, the biggest of which were "Love & Affection", "Me Myself I", and "Drop the Pilot". Her music is generally pop, with forays into rock, folk, jazz, and even reggae. Her popularity is primarily as an album artist.
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Show Some Emotion, words and music by Joan Armatrading, tabbed by Rogier van Mazijk
C#11
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C#m7
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D6
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A C#m7
Show some emotion
C#11 D6
Put expression in your eyes
E A
Light up
Adim Dm6/A
If you're feeling happy
A
But if it's bad
E7 Am
Then let those tears roll down
there's short pentatonic, repeating riff in the verses:
e ---------------------3--5-5---------------|
B ---------------------3--5-5---------------|
G --2-0---0------------4--5-5---------------|
D ------2---2-0-----------------------------|
A --------------3-0-------------------------|
E ------------------------------------------|
Am
Some people hurting
Someone choking up inside
Some poor souls dying
Too proud to say
They got no place to lie
And there's people
If they hear a joke
Can't keep the laugh
Out of their eye
A
Show some emotion
C#11 D6
Put expression in your eyes
E A
Light up
Adim Dm6/A
If you're feeling happy
A
But if it's bad
E7 Am
Then let those tears roll down
Some people in love
But all they got's a photography
How can they get it
Too scared
To open their mouth
To ask
C#11
x44444
C#m7
xx2424
D6
xx0202
A C#m7
Show some emotion
C#11 D6
Put expression in your eyes
E A
Light up
Adim Dm6/A
If you're feeling happy
A
But if it's bad
E7 Am
Then let those tears roll down
there's short pentatonic, repeating riff in the verses:
e ---------------------3--5-5---------------|
B ---------------------3--5-5---------------|
G --2-0---0------------4--5-5---------------|
D ------2---2-0-----------------------------|
A --------------3-0-------------------------|
E ------------------------------------------|
Am
Some people hurting
Someone choking up inside
Some poor souls dying
Too proud to say
They got no place to lie
And there's people
If they hear a joke
Can't keep the laugh
Out of their eye
A
Show some emotion
C#11 D6
Put expression in your eyes
E A
Light up
Adim Dm6/A
If you're feeling happy
A
But if it's bad
E7 Am
Then let those tears roll down
Some people in love
But all they got's a photography
How can they get it
Too scared
To open their mouth
To ask
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