BE MY NUMBER TWO        Joe Jackson

This is just a simple try to adapt this lovley piano-based
ballad to the guitar. If you need it, I maybe could write
down and mail you the tabs as I play it, but firstgive it a go
and work out your own..


INTRO

FF Piano Chord 
 BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 
 FF Piano Chord 
 BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 
 am7 gm7 CC Piano Chord 
 dm7 CC Piano Chord 


FF Piano Chord 
 BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 
 FF Piano Chord 
 BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 
 am7 gm7 CC Piano Chord 
 dm7 CC Piano Chord 


Verses:

FF Piano Chord 
                    BbBb Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 

Won't you be my number two

FF Piano Chord 
                  BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 

Being number one or trough (?)

am7                  gm7     CC Piano Chord 

There won't be too much to do

dm7               CC Piano Chord 

just smile when I feel blue


FF Piano Chord 
                           BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 

And there's not much left of me

FF Piano Chord 
                      BbBb Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 

What you get is what you see

am7               gm7 CC Piano Chord 

Is it worth the energy

dm7            CC Piano Chord 

I leave it up to you

Break:

BbBb Piano Chord 
    FF Piano Chord 
          CC Piano Chord 
            FF Piano Chord 

And if you got something to say to me

BbBb Piano Chord 
      FF Piano Chord 
          CC Piano Chord 
        FF Piano Chord 

Don't try to lay off only weights on me

BbBb Piano Chord 
  FF Piano Chord 
              CC Piano Chord 
          FF Piano Chord 

I know that it's really not fair of me

Bb9Bb9 Piano Chord 
                C9C9 Piano Chord 

But my heart seemed too much action


FF Piano Chord 
                       BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 

And every time I look at you

FF Piano Chord 
                      BbBb Piano Chord 
  CC Piano Chord 

you'll be who I want you to

am7                gm7   CC Piano Chord 

And I'll do what I can do

dm7             CC Piano Chord 
        Bb^6
To make a dream or two come true

Bb^6             gm7    FF Piano Chord 

if you be my, if you be my number two.

FF Piano Chord 
 BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 
 FF Piano Chord 
 BbBb Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 
 am7 gm7 CC Piano Chord 
 dm7 CC Piano Chord 


End:

Bb^6 gm7 gm7/c F^79

Chords:

F:        Bb:        C:

e|--1--------x-----------x---
b|--1--------3-----------5---
g|--2--------3-----------5---
d|--3--------3-----------5---
a|--3--------1-----------3---
e|--1--------x-----------x---

Use these chords for the first two lines of each verse and
the break.
The am7, gm7 and dm7 in the rest of each verse are:

am7:   gm7:    dm7:
e|--x------x-------x-------
b|--5------3-------10------
g|--5------3-------10------
d|--5------3-------10------
a|--x------x-------x-------
e|--5------3-------10------

For last C in each verse I take an upper position:

C:
e|-----x-------------------
b|-----8-------------------
g|-----9-------------------
d|-----10------------------
a|-----x-------------------
e|-----8-------------------


The Bb9 and the C9 in the end of the break are:

Bb9:         C9:

e|--x-----------x---
b|--1-----------3---
g|--3-----------5---
d|--3-----------5---
a|--1-----------3---
e|--x-----------x---

So you finally need the chords I play in the end of the Song.
I end up in the 10th position (dm7) and progress in a downward
movement in an ending-sequence to a finally F^7/9:

Play the dm7 at the 10th and the C at the 8th position. Go
down two frets to the 6th position and try a Bbmajor6 like
this:

Bb^6:
e|---------x--------
b|---------6--------
g|---------7--------
d|---------5--------
a|---------x--------
e|---------6--------

In the ending sequence I use the already mentioned gm7 after which I go over a gm7
add C on b-string at first position,

gm7/C:
e|---------x---------
b|---------1---------
g|---------3---------
d|---------3---------
a|---------x---------
e|---------3---------

to the last chord, a F major7/9:

F^7/9:
e|---------0---------
b|---------1---------
g|---------0---------
d|---------3---------
a|---------x---------
e|---------1---------


I hope you like it and enjoy...   Juergen



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Juergen Helmers               Freie Universitaet Berlin
Tel.: + 49 30 6269734         Institut fuer Biochemie
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