John Butler Trio - What You Want

there are quite a few tabs here , all of them very good , but they’re all in
open C tuning . i decided to rework the song into standard because it’s A
hassle changing tuning so often if you want to busk or whatever . not being
that good a guitarist though , i only translated the chords and not the riffs ,
but i think it went quite well , so enjoy .

tuning : standard

chords used : Cadd9 Asus2 Em Bm

E : 0 E : 0 E : 0 E : 2
B : 3 B : 0 B : 0 B : 3
G : 0 G : 2 G : 0 G : 4
D : 2 D : 2 D : 2 D : 4
A : 3 A : 0 A : 2 A : 2
E : x E : x E : 0 E :

x F#5 G D/F#

E : x E : x E :
x B : x B : x B : 3
G : x G : 4 G : 2
D : 4 D : 5 D : 0
A : 4 A : 5 A : 0
E : 2 E : 3 E : 2

i included the D/F# chord because in the outro it sounds rather nice and
fits just about as well as the F#5 does , so just pick whichever you think
sounds best .

intro/verse :

Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm x6

Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
what you want to say ,
Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
wait till you get home .
Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
i’m sick of communicating over the
Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
telephone .

Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
but tell me how you feel ,
Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
i Am lonely too
Bm Cadd9
need you to know
Asus2 Em Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm
i’m just as cold & numb as you .

bridge :

Cadd9 – one bar being the length of the four verse chords , play this for 8
bars . there’s lots of fiddlyness here , which you could improvise , or figure
out from the many tabs .

verse :

Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm x4

Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
but i could fly away ,
Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
or i could be no one .
Bm
and you could be the
Cadd9 Asus2 Em Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
sunshine falling over the mountains
Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
or you could come today
Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em
you could come right home
Bm Cadd9
i don’t see why i have to
Asus2 Em Bm Cadd9 | Asus2 | Em | Bm
live this life all alone .

bridge :

Cadd9 ( again , there’s more fiddly guitar lines here , best to improvise or
have a look at the other tabs )

i know there is a way to make up for old mistakes
i know what’s happening is for a reason

outro :

Em | F#5 | G | Asus2
Cadd9 x4

john starts singing as he plays the Em chord , and ends on the Cadd9 which
lasts a bar . if he sings words i haven’t managed to decipher them , but if you
can get the tone with your voice the details don’t matter here .