I Want You Back - The Jackson 5

Version 7 of 10
Capo: Fret 4
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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There are two basic chord "runs" here. 
In these runs, it's all about the bass notes (the note in brackets []). 
You can mute or miss most of the other notes in a chord, as long as you hit that bass line!

         
E|--3---3----0
B|--3---3----0
G|--0--------0
D|--0--------2
A|--2--------2
E|-[3]-[2]--[0

        
---2---3---3--
---3---3---3--
---2---0---0--
--[0]------2--
------[3]-[2]-
]-------------

    
--0---2-
--1---3-
--0---2-
--2--[0]
-[0]----
--------

       
E|--0--------3
B|--0--------3
G|--0----0---0
D|--2----2---2
A|-[2]--[0]-[3
E|------------

      
-----3---0---2
-----3---1---3
-----0---0---2
-----0---2--[0
]----2--[0]---
----[3]-------

   
---3--
---3--
---0--
]--0--
---2--
--[3]-

CAPO 4th FRET

[Intro]
  x2
      

[Verse]

When I had you

 to myself,
  
I didn't want 

you around;

       
Those  pretty 

         
faces always m

           
ade you stand 

 
out in a crowd

.
         
Then someone p

icked you from

 the bunch
    
one glance was

 all it took
        
Now it's much 

        
too late for m

           
e, to take a s

      
econd look.

[Chorus]
        
    Oh baby, g

            
ive me one mor

        
e chance to sh

              
ow you that I 


love you,
         
    Won't you 

            
please let me 

           
back into your

 
 heart?
         
    Oh darlin'

           
, I was blind 

          
to let you go,

          
 let you go ba

by,
          
    But now si

           
nce I see you 

           
in his arms, I

               
 want you back

[Break]
             
 I want you ba

   
ck, ooh I do n

ow,
             
 I want you ba

   
ck, ooh, ooh b

aby.
             
 I want you ba

   
ck, yeah, yeah

, yeah, yeah,
             
 I want you ba

   
ck, hey, hey, 

now, now.

[Verse]

Tryin' to live

 without your 

love, 
   
is one long sl

eepless night,
        
Let me show yo

        
u girl, that I

           
 know wrong fr

   
om right.

Every street y

ou walk on,
         
I leave tear s

tains on the g

round,
          
Following the 

       
girl I didn't 

        
even want a-ro

und.

 Let me tell y

ou now

[Chorus]
        
    Oh baby, g

            
ive me one mor

        
e chance to sh

              
ow you that I 


love you,
         
    Won't you 

            
please let me 

           
back into your

 
 heart?
         
    Oh darlin'

           
, I was blind 

          
to let you go,

          
 let you go ba

by,
          
    But now si

           
nce I see you 

           
in his arms, I

               
 want you back

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