Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House


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Like many of my tabs, I try to preserve a sense of rhythm and keep the staves short by using single-characters
to denote double-digit frets. This goes like hexadecimal notation: A=10th fret, B=11th and so forth.

[INTRO]
  C        C

[VERSE]
  C                Am                     Em7          G    G7
  Somewhere deep inside something's got a hold on you
           C           Am                        Em7        G               
  And it's pushing me aside see it stretch on forever

  C        Am 
G:--------|---
D:--------|---
A:--------|---
E:--------|---

      Em7     
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------

 G   G7   C   
|--------|----
|--------|----
|--------|----
|--------|----

     Am       
----|--------|
----|--------|
----|--------|
----|--------|

Em7      G 
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----

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[CHORUS] 
                 C    C7                          F         F
  And I know I'm right      for the first time in my life
               G           G                  C             G
  That's why I tell you       you'd better be home soon

  C        C7 
G:--------|---
D:--------|---
A:--------|---
E:--------|---

      F       
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------

 F        G   
|--------|----
|--------|----
|--------|----
|--------|----

     G        
----|--------|
----|--------|
----|--------|
----|--------|

C        G
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----

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[VERSE]
  C                    Am                  Em7       G    G7                
    Stripping back the coats of lies and deception
  C              Am                      Em7           G
  Back to nothingness like a week in the desert

  C        Am 
              
G:--------|---
D:----0-2-|---
A:3--3----|0--
E:--------|---
              

      Em7     
              
-----|--------
-----|--------
0320-|--------
----3|0--00--1
              

 G   G7     C        Am       Em7      G
     ~16~
|------0---|--------|----20--|--------|--------|
|----23---0|----0-2-|-------0|2--2----|--------|
|----------|3--3----|0--0----|--------|--------|
|3--3------|--------|--------|----0--1|3--33--3|
     3e+a4+

[CHORUS] 
                 C     C7                       F         F
  And I know I'm right    for the first time in my life
               G                            C          C/B
  That's why I tell you     you'd better be home soon

  C        C7 
G:--------|---
D:--------|20-
A:3--33--3|---
E:--------|---
              

      F       
-----|--------
-202-|--------
3----|--------
-----|1--11--1
              

 F   ~16~   G 
|----------|--
|----------|--
|-------03-|--
|1--11-3--1|3-
     3e+a     

  ~~~16~~~ G  
----------|---
----------|5--
---03---35|---
-33-------|---
  3e+a4e+a    

   ~16~ C        C/B
-------|--------|--------|
5------|--------|--------|
------0|3--33--3|2--22--2|
-33--3-|--------|--------|
   4e+a

[BRIDGE]
  Bb            D                         G
     Don't say "no," don't say "nothing's wrong"
  Bb                         A                  D        C       Am
    'Cause when you get back home maybe I'll be gone

  Bb       D  
G:------3-|---
D:----3--3|0--
A:1--1----|---
E:--------|---
              

      G   ~16~   Bb       A        D        C        Am
-2---|----------|----3---|--------|--------|--------|--------|
0-0-0|------5---|-----0--|----2---|0--020--|--------|--------|
-----|-----5---0|1--1----|0--0--0-|-------0|3--353--|0--00---|
-----|3--33-----|--------|--------|--------|-------3|-----31-|
          3e+a

[INSTRUMENTAL]
  Em       G ~
G:--------|---
D:--------|---
A:--------|---
E:0--00--2|3-3

3~     C      
------|-------
-020--|-------
2----2|3--33-2
------|-------

  Am       Em 
-|--------|---
-|--------|---
-|0--00---|---
-|------3-|0--

      F       
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------
00--0|1--11--1

 F        Bb  
|--------|3--3
|-------3|----
|-----13-|----
|1--11---|----

     Bb 
3---|32-0----|
--3-|-----3--|
----|-------1|
----|--------|

[VERSE]
  C                 Am                 Em7      G                       
  It would cause me pain if we were to end it
  C                  Am             Em7           G
  But I could start again you can depend on it

  C        Am 
G:--------|---
D:-------3/A--
A:3-------|---
E:--------|---

      Em7     
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|A-------
-----|--------

 G   G7   C   
|C---CA-9|----
|------C-|A---
|--------|----
|--------|----

     Am       
----|--------|
----|CA------|
----|---C----|
----|-------A|

Em7      G
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----
00000000|11113

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333|

[CHORUS] 
             C    C7                        F          F
  I know I'm right    for the first time in my life
               G           G                       Am          D
  That's why I tell you       you'd better be home soon

  C        C7 
G:--------|---
D:--------|---
A:3--33--3|3--
E:--------|---

      F       
-----|--------
-0---|--------
3-3--|--------
---0-|1--11--1

 F   ~3~   G  
|---------|---
|------0--|---
|-----0-30|---
|1--11----|3--

      G   ~3~ 
-----|--------
-----|------0-
-----|----/3--
33--3|3--33--3

  Am    ~3~ D 
-|---------|--
-|-------0-|0-
-|0--00---0|--
-|---------|--

       
------|
-00---|
---30-|
-----3|

[CODA]
  F                G
  Oh, That's why I tell you
  G                      N/C             
    You'd better be home soon

  F        G  
G:--------|---
D:--------|---
A:--------|---
E:1--11---|3~~

      G       
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 N/C
|--------|
|--------|
|--------|
|--------|

Tabbed by Michael Oxner
moxner@nbnet.nb.ca
Updated March 11, 2021

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