If It Wasnt For The Nights - ABBA
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Capo: Fret 2
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
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If it wasn't for the Nights – ABBA
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Written by: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
From: “Voulez-Vous” (1979)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Capo: 2nd fret
Play: G
Key: A
For chords in original key, transpose +2.
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[Intro] / [Instrumental)
Whatever your strumming pattern, try to include these voicings.
1 + 2 + 3 +
4 + 1 + 2 + 3
+ 4 + 1 + 2
+ 3 + 4 + 1 +
2 + 3 + 4 +
e|3---------0-
B|5---------0-
G|------------
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------
7---|3--------
8---|5--------
----|---------
----|---------
----|---------
----|---------
---2---|3-----
---3---|5-----
---4---|------
-------|------
-------|------
-------|------
----0-7---|3--
----0-8---|5--
----------|---
----------|---
----------|---
----------|---
-------3-3-3-|
-------1-1-1-|
-------0-0-0-|
-------0-0-0-|
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CHORDS
E-A-D
C/G 3-x-2
G 3-x-0
Am/G 3-x-2
G/B x-2-0
Gsus4/D x-x-0
Gsus4/D x-x-0
C x-3-2
Am7 x-0-2
-G-B-e
-0-1-3
-0-0-3
-2-1-0
-0-0-3
-2-3-x
-0-1-3 or x-5-
-0-1-3 (chorus
-2-1-3 (chorus
5-5-3(3)
)
)
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[Intro]
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1 2 3 4
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1 + 2
+ 3 + 4 +
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[Verse]
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(instrumental
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)
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(I go
|
t appointments
...)
[Verse 1]
I got appointm
ents, work I h
ave to do
Keeping me so
busy all the d
ay through
They're the th
ings that keep
me from think
ing of you
(Aaaaaah ...)
Baby, I miss
you so, I know
I'm never gon
[ ]
na make it
(Oh I’m so restless...)
[Verse 2]
I'm so restles
s, I don't car
e what I say
And I lose my
temper ten tim
es a day
Still, it's ev
en worse when
the night's on
its way
It's bad, o-o-
o-o-oh, so bad
[Chorus]
Somehow, I'd
be doing alrig
ht if it wasn'
[ ]
t for the nigh
ts
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could make
]
it)
I'd have cour
age left to fi
ght if it wasn
[
't for the nig
]
hts
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could take
]
it)
[Bridge]
How I fear th
e time when sh
adows start to
fall
Sitting here a
lone and stari
/
ng at the wall
[Chorus]
Even I could
see a light if
it wasn't for
[ ]
the nights
(Even I could
see a light I
think that I
[ ]
could make it)
Somehow I'd b
e doing alrigh
t if it wasn't
[ ]
for the night
s
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could take
]
it)
[Instrumental]
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1 2 3 4
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1 + 2
+ 3 + 4 +
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[Verse]
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(instrumental
|
)
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|
(No o
|
ne to turn to
...)
[Verse 3]
No one to turn
to, you know
how it is
I was not prep
ared for somet
hing like this
Now I see them
clearly, the
things that I
miss
(Aaaaaaah ...)
Baby, I feel
so bad, I kno
w I'm never go
[ ]
nna make it
(I got my business ...)
[Verse 4]
I got my busin
ess to help me
through the d
ay
People I must
write to, bill
s I must pay
But everything
's so differen
t when night's
on its way
It's bad, oh,
so bad
[Chorus]
Somehow, I'd
be doing alrig
ht if it wasn'
[ ]
t for the nigh
ts
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could make
]
it)
I'd have cour
age left to fi
ght if it wasn
[
't for the nig
]
hts
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could take
]
it)
[Bridge]
How I fear th
e time when sh
adows start to
fall
Sitting here a
lone and stari
/
ng at the wall
[Chorus]
Even I could
see a light if
it wasn't for
[ ]
the nights
(Even I could
see a light I
think that I
[ ]
could make it)
Guess my futu
re would look
bright if it w
asn't for the
[ ]
nights
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could take
]
it)
[Chorus] variation
If it ... was
n't ... for th
[ ]
e nights
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could take
]
it)
If it ... was
n't ... for th
[ ]
e nights
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could make
]
it)
[Instrumental]
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[Chorus]
Even I could
see a light if
it wasn't for
[ ]
the nights
(Even I could
see a light I
think that I
[ ]
could make it)
Guess my futu
re would look
bright if it w
asn't for the
[ ]
nights
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could take
]
it)
[Instrumental]
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[Chorus] variation
If it ... was
n't ... for th
[ ]
e nights
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could take
]
it)
If it ... was
n't ... for th
[ ]
e nights
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could make
]
it)
[Chorus] (fade out)
Even I could
see a light if
it wasn't for
[ ]
the nights
(Even I could
see a light I
think that I
[ ]
could make it)
Guess my futu
re would look
bright if it w
asn't for the
[ ]
nights
(If it wasn't
for the night
s, I think tha
[
t I could take
]
it)