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Song title:      To Love Somebody
Original Album:  Bee Gee's 1st

Words and Music by Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb
Copyright © 1967 Polydor Records
Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Barry Gibb would play this in Open D tuning (DAD F# AD). Standard tuning
works OK but why not give it a try in Open D? Because open tunings are cool! 


INTRO:
Chords:
    Standard    Open D
A   x02220      777777
G   320033      555555
D   xx0232      000000


[play: | A | G | D A |]

[play: | A | % |]


VERSE:
Chords:
    Standard    Open D
A   x02220      777777
Bm  xx4432      020020
D   xx0232      000000
G   320033      555555
E   022100      222222

          A        Bm
There's a light, a certain kind of light
D                   A
That never shone on me
G                 A             E
I want my life to be lived with you
           D
Lived with you


VERSE:
There's a way everybody says
To do each and every little thing
But what does it bring if I ain't got you
Ain't got... baby


CHORUS:
Chords:
    Standard    Open D
A   x02220      777777
Bm  xx4432      020020
D   xx0232      000000
G   320033      555555
E   022100      222222

A                        E
You don't know what it's like,
      D                        A  [N.C.]
Baby, you don't know what it's like
            E                 D
To love somebody, to love somebody,
          A         E
The way I love you


[repeat INTRO]


VERSE:
Chords:
    Standard    Open D
A   x02220      777777
Bm  xx4432      020020
D   xx0232      000000
G   320033      555555
E   022100      222222

      A       Bm
In my brain I see your face again
D                  A
I know my frame of mind
G                      A
You ain't got to be so blind
        E              D
And I'm blind, so very blind


VERSE:

      A    Bm
I'm a man, can't you see what I am?
D                        A
I live and I breathe for you
G                     A             E
But what good does it do if I ain't got you
      D
Ain't got... Baby...


[repeat CHORUS]


E         (A)
I... love you


[repeat CHORUS]


E             (A) 
No-no-no-no-no-no


[repeat CHORUS and fade]