Lovers Society Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

A Better not talk flirty mama,

Know how to undress me.

Better not talk dirty mama,

That won't impress me.

[

A B C C♯

D]

D You don't have to watch Dynasty

To have an attitude.

[

D C♯ C B

A]

A Just leave it all up to me, yeah

My love is gonna be your food (OK gonna sing this)

E You don't have to be rich to be my girl

D You don't have to be cool to rule my world

E Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with

D

Just want your extra time and your

(I only did that so I could do that bit!)

KISS!

Lovers' Society [John Wesley Harding]

C Am C Am C Am C

Am Well they're takCing minAmutes to do whCat takes me hoursAm at the Lovers'C Society Am C

Am Well they're haCnding out tendAmers for new ivorCy towersAm at the LoversEm' Society F

Dm And the chairman's soG7 together --- Cdrinks coffC7Mee from a loverAm's cup

Dm It's always lovG7ers weather --- if FinnC and EsseEm would just buttonF up C

F He doesn't neEmed sugar --- wDme all know why

F When he's plaEmnning the broken Ghearts' bring and buy..... bring and buy, yeah!

C I wanna belAmong and IC wanna beAm

Em Part of the Lovers' FSocietGy

C I wanna belAmong and IC wanna beAm

Dm Part of the Lovers' FSocietyG

C They shoulAmdn't mess wCith me,Am ..... No!

C They shoulAmdn't mess wCith me

Am Well they talCk about thinAmgs that do not make Cmy agenda Amat the Lovers'C Society Am C

Am The commitCtee are emotAmional bCig spenderAms at the LoversEm' Society F

Dm They've always goG7t a quorum --- Cthey love to loveC7M to alwayAms agree

Dm But this is the lovG7ers' famous forum anCd they've EmexcludedF cynicalC me

F They say it'Ems paranoiaDm and I've got to pay time

F But I think iEmt's paranormal Gthat they're so blatant... They're so blatant!

C I wanna belAmong and IC wanna beAm

Em Part of the Lovers' FSocietGy

C I wanna belAmong and IC wanna beAm

Dm Part of the Lovers' FSocietyG

C They shoulAmdn't mess wCith me,Am ..... No!

C They shoulAmdn't mess wCith mAme C Am C

Am CasanovCa and Don JuaAmn talking turkeCy in the corneAmr at the Lovers'C Society Am C

Am Sylvia PlatCh and Mrs. BrownAming they just go fCor a saunaAm at the LoversEm' Society

F I'm standing at the lovGer's keyhole wCith halfC7M a bottlAme of Beck's

F 'Cause it sure felt colGd and lonely, suckCin' my tEmhumb in thFe annexeC.

F You should see theEm archives Dmon the shelf,

F Proves everyEm lover just Gloves him or herself,

G7 Him or herself, him or herself, Woah!

C I'm vaguely Ambitter, 'cause thCey've written meAm

Em Out of the text of the LFovers' SociGety

C I wanna belAmong and IC wanna beAm

Dm Part of the Lovers' SFocietyG

C They shouAmldn't messC with mAme, .... No!

C They shouAmldn't messC with mAme .... (Nah!)

C They shouAmldn't messC with mAme .... No!Em F G C

Chords

CBD

E A D G B E

A [0 0 2 2 2 0]

D [x 0 0 2 3 2] or [2 0 0 2 3 2]

E [0 2 2 1 0 0]

C [0 3 2 0 1 0]

Am [0 0 2 2 1 0]

Em [0 2 2 0 0 0]

F [1 3 3 2 1 1]

Dm [x 0 0 2 3 1]

G7 [3 2 0 0 0 1]

Cmaj7 [0 3 2 0 0 0]

G [3 2 0 0 0 3]

BASS RUNS are shown in the music in square brackets, e.g. [A B C C# D]

At the end of KISS,

uses a single finger (index or middle)

to fret the 3 or 4 treble strings of which usually 3 or maybe 4 are played

with a sequence of down, up, downstrum, etc.

Notes

1. The first part of Kiss is played in bass-strum style, but I haven't

included the bass notes, only the chords.

2. There's no reason you have to sing Kiss with Lovers' Society, and in fact I

expect Wes sometimes sings it on its own.

3. If anyone has a better idea for the fourth line of Lovers' Society then let

me know. "Finn and Esse" is merely what I thought sounded, syllable-wise,

like what Wes sings. It doesn't make any sense to me in the context of the

famous lovers and romantics mentioned in the rest of the song. Perhaps he

is trying to say he lacks finesse and he wishes the two parts of the word

would come together.

4. Thanks to Patrick Barnett for sending this to me before I was able to get

hold of the original CD.

5. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for email address)

or to request tabs for songs. If you have a favourite JWH song you'd

like me to have a go at, let me know. I now have the four full albums,

"The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night", "Why We Fight" and

"Here Comes The Groom". If I haven't got the songs, I could only do

them if you send me an audio tape with them on. If you could work out

the lyrics, that would be a great help. The songs I've tabbed/chorded

so far are:

From "The Name Above The Title":

I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)

Save A Little Room For Me

The People's Drug

The Person You Are

Long Dead Gone } lyrics supplied by

Backing Out } Alan Pulliam - thanks

from "It Happened One Night":

Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)

- thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"

Kiss/Lovers' Society

and from "Here Comes The Groom"

The Red Rose And The Briar } thanks to Patrick Barnett

and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of

When The Sun Comes Out } thanks to Patrick again

These are archived on the guitar tab archives, ftp.nevada.edu and its

mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local mirror sites by

using a program such as "archie". Cal Woods & Jim Carson, the new

maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid

archie searches. It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive". You can find

the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:

unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive

Host unix.hensa.ac.uk

Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar

Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

6. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin (ftp.maths.tcd.ie) has also

uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:

/pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is a copy of Crystal

Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy James and the Chandelles (sp?)

which appears on "The Name Above The Title". There doesn't appear to be

a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.

7. Enjoy!

Regards,

Ryan Harding

Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC

"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"

- John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"