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Song title:      When A Man Loves A Woman
Original Album:	 When A Man Loves A Woman (Percy Sledge)

Words and Music by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright
Copyright © 1966 Atlantic Records
Published by ???

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 1. Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 6/8.


INTRO:
Chords:
C    x32010    Am7/G 3x2010
G/B  320003    F     xx3211
Am   x02210    G7    320001


[play: 6/8| C | G/B | Am | Am7/G | F | G7 | C | G7 |]


VERSE1:
Chords:
C     x32010    Am7/G 3x2010
G/B   x20003    F     xx3211
Am    x02210    G7    320001


6/8
     | C         |   G/B | Am                Am7/G              | F
When a man loves a woman,     can't keep his mind on nothing else

             | G7               | C              | G7
He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found

        | C           | G     | Am             | C
If she is bad, he can't see it,    she can do no wrong

| F                    | G7              | C     | G  |
    Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
C   x32010    F   xx3211
G   320003    G7  320001
Am  x02210    C7  x32310


     | C         | G    | Am         | C
When a man loves a woman,    spend his very last dime

| F              | G7       | C      | G
    Trying to hold on to what he needs

           | C     | G         Am                | C
He'd give up all his comforts,    sleep out in the rain

| F           | G7              | C         | C7 |
    If she said that's the way it ought to be



BRIDGE:
Chords:
F   xx3211    Am  x02210
C   x32010    D7  xx0212
C7  x32310    G7  320001
G   320003


| F                         | C    | C7
    Well, this man loves you, woman,

| F                       | C | C7
    I gave you everything I had

| F                    | C  | G        | Am
    Trying to hold on to your high-class love

| D7  | %          | %      | G  |
  Baby, please don't treat me bad__



VERSE3:
Chords:
C   x32010    F   xx3211
G   320003    G7  320001
Am  x02210


     | C         | G    | Am               | C
When a man loves a woman    down deep in his soul

| F             | G7        | C | G
    She can bring him such misery
    
     | C             | G   | Am             | C
If she plays him for a fool,    he's the last one to know

| F      | G7           | C | G |
    Loving eyes can never see



VERSE4:
Chords:
C   x32010    F   xx3211
G   320003    G7  320001
Am  x02210


     | C         | G    | Am                | C
When a man loves a woman,    he can do her no wrong

| F            | G7          | C  | G
    He can never hold  another girl

          | C         | G    | Am                     | C
Yes, when a man loves a woman,    I know exactly how he feels

| F           | G7            | C   | G |
    Baby, baby, baby, you're my world



OUTRO:
Chords:
C   x32010    F   xx3211
G   320003    G7  320001
Am  x02210


     | C         | G    | Am                     | C
When a man loves a woman,    I know exactly how he feels

| F           | G7            | C   | G |
   'Cause baby, baby, you're my world