When A Man Loves A Woman Acordes

Song: When a man loves a woman
Artist: Percy Sledge
Composers: Calvin Lewis & Andrew Wright
 
Tabbed by DJ  26th Aug 2015
 
PLEASE NOTE:
This isn't intended to be Marlin Greene's guitar part
instead it's a tab with aspects of the whole
arrangement to be used as accompaniment for a
single performer, and includes elements of the
Farfisa organ and also the double bass progressions.
 
[This bass riff could be added to the start
and middle line of all the verses, except the bridge]:
        (When a...)
e |---------------|
B |---------------|
G |---------------|
D |---------------|
A |-------0---2---|
E |---6-----------|
 
 
TIME SIGNATURE: 6/8
 
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
options for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers
 
CAPO: 1st fret
(Will then sound in the recorded key of Db)
 
Chord names & fret positions are relative to the capo
C    = x32010    G7/B = x20001    C7    = x35353
G/B  = x20003    G7/D = xx0001    B7    = x24242
Am   = x02210    C/B  = x2xxxx    Bb7   = x13131
Am/G = 302210    C/A  = x0xxxx    Asus2 = x02200
F    = xx3211    G    = 320003    D9    = xx0210
F/A  = x03211    G7   = 320001    D7    = xx0212
 
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[Intro]
  C       G/B       Am     Am/G
| /   /    /   /  | /   /   /   / |
 
  F  F/A G7/B G7/D  C  C C/B C/A G
| /   /    /   /  | /  /__/__/   /  / |
 
[Verse 1]
G7/B   C           G/B
When a man loves a woman,
Am                        Am/G         F
   Can't keep his mind on nothing else,
F/A            G7/B  G7/D       C                 G
He'd trade the world for a good thing he's found,
G7/B      C            G/B    Am               Am/G
If she is bad he can't see it,...she can do no wrong,
F   F/A           G7/B        G7/D
    Turn his back on his best friend...
      C             G
If he put her down
 
[Verse 2]
G7/B         C           G/B
     When a man loves a woman,
Am                       Am/G
     He'd spend his very last dime,
F   F/A       G7/B  G7/D            C         G
    Trying to hold    ...on to what he needs,
G7/B         C          G/B
He'd give up all of his comforts,
Am                       Am/G
    And sleep out in the rain,
F  F/A         G7/B          G7/D    C           C7
   If she said that's the way  ...it ought to be
 
[Bridge]
F                             C      C7
    Well, this man loves you, woman,
C7 B7 Bb7 F                           C    C7
              I gave you everything I had,
C7 B7 Bb7 F
              Trying to hold on...
   C           C/B   Am   Asus2  Am
To your high - class love,
D9  D7  D9  D7  D9    D7  D9   D7          G    G7
Ba- by,         plea- se, don -'t treat me bad-----!
 
[Verse 3]
       C           G/B    Am              Am/G
When a man loves a woman, ...down deep in his soul,
F  F/A            G7/B     G7/D   C        G
    She can bring him such    ....misery,
G7/B           C                 G/B
     If she is playing him for a fool,
Am                 Am/G
     He's the last one to know,
F    F/A        G7/B    G7/D       C    G
     Loving eyes  ...can  ...never see
 
[Verse 4]
G7/B         C           G/B
      When a man loves a woman,
Am                   Am/G
    He can do her no wrong,
F   F/A          G7/B    G7/D       C     G
    He can never hold ...some other girl,
G7/B        C           G/B
Yes, when a man loves a woman,
Am                 Am/G
    I know exactly how he feels,
F   F/A          G7/B  G7/D         C         G
   'Cause, baby, baby,    ...you're my world
 
[Coda]
G7/B         C           G/B
      When a man loves a woman,
Am                   Am/G
      I know exactly how he feels,
F   F/A          G7/B  G7/D           C
   'Cause, baby, baby,    ...you're my world
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