Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
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Tuning: Standard, E A D G
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|
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[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-------|---
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~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
-----|--------
-----|--------
-----|--------
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N/C
|--------|
|--------|
|--------|
|--------|
Tabbed by Michael Oxner
moxner@nbnet.nb.ca
Updated March 11, 2021