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Song title:      Tell Me Why
Original Album:	 Singin' To My Baby (Eddie Cochran)
Other albums:    The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album
                 The Very Best of Eddie Cochran

Words and Music by Eddie Cochran
Copyright © 1958 Liberty Records (US); Decca Records (UK)
Published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



NOTES:
Timing is 3/4.



INTRO:

[play:]

  D
|---------2-------2-------|---------2-------2-------|
|---------3-------3-------|---------3-------3-------|
|---------2-------2-------|---------2-------2-------|
|-0-----------------------|-0-----------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - |




VERSE1:
Chords:
D  xx0232    E  022100
G  320033    A  x02220


3/4

                            D                         G                         D
|-------------------------|---------2-------2-------|---------3-------3-------|---------2-------2-------|
|-------------------------|---------3-------3-------|---------3-------3-------|---------3-------3-------|
|-------------------------|---------2-------2-------|---------0-------0-------|---------2-------2-------|
|-------------------------|-0-----------------------|-------------------------|-0-----------------------|
|-0-------2-------4-------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-3-----------------------|-------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - |
  A                         D                         G                         D
  Tell_____       me        why______________             the ivy______         twines



                            D                         E                         A
|-------------------------|---------2-------2-------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|---------3-------3-------|---------0-------0-------|---------2-------2-------|
|-------------------------|---------2-------2-------|---------1-------1-------|---------2-------2-------|
|-------------------------|-0-----------------------|---------2-------2-------|---------2-------2-------|
|-0-------2-------4-------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-0-----------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-0-----------------------|-------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - |
  A                         D                         E                         A
  Tell_____       me        why______________             the stars____         do      shine




                            D                         G                         F#
|-------------------------|---------2-------2-------|---------3-------3-------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|---------3-------3-------|---------3-------3-------|---------2-------2-------|
|-------------------------|---------2-------2-------|---------0-------0-------|---------3-------2-------|
|-------------------------|-0-----------------------|-------------------------|---------4-------4-------|
|-0-------2-------4-------|-------------------------|-------------------------|---------4-------4-------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-3-----------------------|-2-----------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - |
  A                         D                         G                         F#   
  Tell_____       me        why______________   the   ocean's__________         blue   




  B                         E                         A                         D
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|---------2-------2-------|
|---------4-------4-------|---------0-------0-------|---------2-------2-------|---------3-------3-------|
|---------4-------4-------|---------1-------1-------|---------2-------2-------|---------2-------2-------|
|---------4-------4-------|---------2-------2-------|---------2-------2-------|-0-----------------------|
|-2-----------------------|-------------------------|-0-----------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-0-----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - |
  B                         E                         A                         D
      and I       will      tell    you               just why I      love      you




SPOKEN:

D                    G   D
Because God made the ivy twine

D                    E        A
Because God made the stars to shine

        D            G     F#   B
Because God made the ocean blue

        E                    A          G
Because God made you, that's why I love you



[repeat VERSE1]

Notes:
Slap a capo on 1 during the previous spoken part.
That will take care of the modulation for you.
Then just play the VERSE1 chords as before.

Don't worry, I saw Bonnie Raitt do this once mid-song,
so she could play a modulated slide-guitar part.