Help! Chords - Why Can't He Be You?

27 May 01 - 04:19 PM (#471419)
Subject: Help! Chords - Why Can't He Be You?
From: Peter T.

Help, Patsy Cline aficionados -- I actually have the sheet music to this classic ditty, but as usual am stumped by one of the changes. To tell the truth, I am doing this in open D on the guitar, because I am perverse. Anyway, in the original (in G) it goes:

[G] He takes me to, the places [Gmaj7] and [Am7] I used to go [D7], He tells me over [Am7] and over [D7] that he loves me so [G], He gives me love, that [G7] I never got from you [C] he loves me too [???] his love is true [????][G?] Why can't [D7] he be you [G].

The sheet music has nothing happening in the places where the question marks are. Can anyone help fill in the space with something more interesting? I can then change the keys and muck around. Nothing really sounds right chordally.

yours, Peter T.

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27 May 01 - 04:42 PM (#471428)
Subject: RE: Help! Chords - Why Can't He Be You?
From: JenEllen

I'm not sure if the OLGA has this one. I've found it helpful before, you can try the Patsy Blicky to see if they have anything useful.

~Patsified

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27 May 01 - 05:02 PM (#471437)
Subject: RE: Help! Chords - Why Can't He Be You?
From: Peter T.

Nope. Bad as getting to Shangri-La. I think maybe the passage should go:

I never got from you [C] he loves me too [G] his love is true [C] Why [Am7] can't [D7] he be you [G].
The sheet music seems to have it exactly backwards.

yours, Peter T.

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27 May 01 - 06:14 PM (#471464)
Subject: RE: Help! Chords - Why Can't He Be You?
From: JenEllen

Well, I've never know sheet music to be wrong before....*bg*

I tried it your way, and it seems to work okay. Why not go with it?

~world's worst guitarist

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28 May 01 - 11:36 AM (#471736)
Subject: RE: Help! Chords - Why Can't He Be You?
From: Peter T.

O.K. W2WG.
yours, Peter T.

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