How Soon Is Now - The Smiths

Version 2 of 3
Capo: Fret 2
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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It's a tricky one, this.
Listen to the song.
It took me a while to pick up the rhythm.
Just keep trying!

Capo on 2.


[Intro]

         
         


[Verse 1]

         
I am the son a

nd the heir
             
Of a shyness t

             
hat is crimina

    
lly vulgar 

I am the son and heir
              
Of nothing in 

                    
particular 


[Chorus]

        
      You shut

       
 your mouth 
             
How can you sa

  
y 
             
I go about thi

        
ngs the wrong 

way 
         
I am Human and

         
 I need to be 

     
loved 
        
Just like ever

           
ybody else doe

s 


[Instrumental]

         
         

[Verse 2]

         
I am the son a

nd the heir
             
Of a shyness t

             
hat is crimina

    
lly vulgar 

I am the son and heir
              
Of nothing in 

                     
particular 


[Chorus]

        
      You shut

      
 your mouth 
             
How can you sa

  
y 
             
I go about thi

         
ngs the wrong 

way 
         
I am Human and

         
 I need to be 

     
loved 
        
Just like ever

           
ybody else doe

s 


[Instrumental]

         
         
         
         

[Bridge]

         
     There's a

             
 club, if you'

             
d like to go 
              
You could meet

             
 somebody who 

      
really loves y

ou 
         
So you go, and

              
 you stand on 

     
your own 
              
And you leave 

        
on your own 
        
And you go hom

e 
        
And you cry 
              
And you want t

  
o die 


[Instrumental]

         
         
         
         

[Bridge]

         
      When you

             
 say it's gonn

                
a happen now, 
         
      Well, wh

             
en exactly do 

          
you mean?  
         
See I've alrea

         
dy  waited too

        
 long 
         
       And all

           
 my hope is go

ne


[Instrumental]

         
         
         
         

       (x2)



         
         
         
         


[Chorus]

      
       You shu

     
t your mouth 
             
How can you sa

 
y 
             
I go about thi

         
ngs the wrong 

way 
         
I am Human and

         
 I need to be 

      
loved 
         
Just like ever

          
ybody else doe

s 

         
         (fade out)...