When You Walk In The Room - The Searchers

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The Searchers - When You Walk In The Room (Jackie DeShannon) 135 bpm - 4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XWQCLqab4o

* = play riff, once or twice


[Intro] (riff 
       
e|---|--------
B|---|-----2--
G|---|-2-----2
D|-2-|--------
A|---|-0---4-0
E|-0-|--------

- 2 guitars, p
---2-----|-0--
-0-----2-|----
---------|----
---4-----|-2--
-2-----4-|----
---------|----

lay which one 
-------------|
-2-0---2-0---|
-------------|
-----------2-|
-4-2---4-2---|
-----------0-|

you want)
-----------2--
-----2---0----
-2-----2------
-----------4--
-0---4-0-2----
--------------

---|-0--------
-2-|-----2-0--
---|----------
---|-2--------
-4-|-----4-2--
---|----------

-------|
-2-0---|
-----2-| (hold last note over verse)
-------|
-4-2-0-|
-------|

On the first line of the verses, miss out the first couple of notes of the riff, beginning on beat two.


[Verse 1]
             
I can feel a n

              
ew expression 

         *
on my face
             
I can feel a g

              
lowing sensati

          
on taking plac

e
             
I can hear the

             
 guitars playi

             
ng lovely tu -

 
 nes
          
Every time tha

             
t you, walk in

     
 the room

[Verse 2]
             
I close my eye

              
s for a second

              
 and pretend i

              
t's me you wan

*
t
             
Meanwhile I tr

              
y to act so no

    
nchalant
             
I see a summer

             
's night with 

            
a magic mo - o

#
n
          
Every time tha

             
t you, walk in

     
 the room

[Bridge]
          
  Baby,  it's 

  
a dream come t

rue
          
  Walking righ

       
t alongside of

 you
             
  Wish I could

              
 tell you how 


much I care
             
  But I only h

              
ave the nerve 

        
to sta - re

[Verse 3]
             
I can feel a s

              
omething pound

              
ing in my brai

*
n
             
Just any time 

              
that someone s

           
peaks your nam

e
             
Trumpets sound

             
 and I hear th

          
under bo - om
          
Every time tha

             
t you, walk in

     
 the room

          
Every time tha

             
t you, walk in

     
 the room


End by playing the riff twice (as first 2 bars of intro), ending on a held A note or chord.



Correction by: André H. Hofman, 2019-08-02