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Song title:       Loose Tongue
Album:            Try Whistling This

Words and Music by Neil Finn and Jim Moginie
Copyright © 1998 Roundhead Music
Published by EMI Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Marck Bailey has a long-standing tab of this song on his TWT site,
but here is another take on it. See what you think...

For example, I think it's just the E inversion, at the 7th fret, 
throughout the verses... (See chords below.)
The guitar figures are played by the lead guitar.


Guitar Figure 1:

|-------------------------|--------------------7---|
|-------------------------|------------------------|
|*-10-9p7-9p7-----7-------|-10-9p7--9p7-----7-----*|
|*-------------9-----9----|--------------9--------*|
|-------------------------|------------------------|
|-------------------------|------------------------|



INTRO:   [Guitar Figure 1]  (lead guitar)   [x4]

          E                 (rhythm guitar)


VERSE:
E
Remember my loose tongue, forget what I just said.
E
I'd crawl over broken glass, if we could start again.
E
Before our plans were made, when the world was young,
E
The house is falling down, because of my loose tongue.


[Guitar Figure 1]  [x4]


VERSE:
Shouldn't say so much, shouldn't talk so loud.
No sooner on your lips, then it's all over town.
In all our given days, how many gone to waste?
A good man has been hung, because of my loose tongue.


BRIDGE:  
Em                           G
   Your skin is changing its hue,
                             Em
   Your guard is coming down fast.
                        G
   Looks like someone I knew,
                          A5
   Uncovered happiness at last


[Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


VERSE:
And all the wagging tongues, too much information.
In the future now, under massive doubt.
The papers on the street get trampled under feet.


CODA:
A5	                                  G
   And they settle for a princely sum. No no no no no no no.
                Em6
   Good will is coming down
               G                   A5      B5     F#5
   And when it rains, your well is full


[Guitar Figure 1 is played over the chords in the "rap" below...]


F#5
    You shouldn't ask me, you shouldn't ask me
           B5
    If you want the real story, you shouldn't ask me
    You'd better find someone else to get the house-key.
F#5
    No admission to his personal life, 
    and you know the man's walking on the edge of a knife.
         G
    Your tail's getting longer, your nose keeps growing.
    And after sometime you forget what what you're knowing,
          Em
    Had a fleeting encounter with a sycophant.
    Now he's feeling like a kicked out tin can.
G
    You got the poor man nailed to the floor,
                                               A5        Em
    But that's not enough and you want a bit more. Yeah.


Guitar Figure 2 (repeated over last 2 lines):

||-----------------------------------||
||---10--8------------8--10--8-------||
||*---------7------7-------------7--*||
||*------------10-------------------*||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||



G    Cadd9 Bb6                 F6/9
He's only  halfway through his life.
G    Cadd9 Bb6             F6/9
He's only  used up all his time.



CHORDS:
E       07x9xx
Em      022000
G       320033
A5      x02200
Em6     022020
B5      799xxx
F#5     244xxx
Cadd9   x32033
Bb6     x13033
F6/9    13x233