Lovers Society

{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
 [A]       Better not talk flirty mama,

        Know how to undress me.

        Better not talk dirty mama,

        That won't impress me.
     [
 [A]       [B]      [C]       [C#]
 [D]]
 [D]       You don't have to watch Dynasty

        To have an attitude.
     [
 [D]   [C#]    [C]        [B]
 [A]]
 [A]       Just leave it all up to me, yeah

        My love is gonna be your food    (OK gonna sing this)

 [E]       You don't have to be rich to be my girl

 [D]       You don't have to be cool to rule my world

 [E]       Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
                        D                       {12th fret trebles}
        Just want your extra time and your

        (I only did that so I could do that bit!)
{12th fret trebles}
                     KISS!

Lovers' Society [John Wesley Harding]

 [C]   [Am]   [C]   [Am]   [C]   [Am]   [C]

 [Am] Well they're tak[C]ing min[Am]utes to do wh[C]at takes me hours[Am] at the Lovers'[C] Society   [Am]         [C]

 [Am] Well they're ha[C]nding out tend[Am]ers for new ivor[C]y towers[Am] at the Lovers[Em]' Society        [F]

 [Dm] And the chairman's so[G7] together --- [C]drinks coff[Cmaj7]ee from a lover[Am]'s cup

 [Dm] It's always lov[G7]ers weather --- if Finn[C] and Esse[Em] would just button[F] up    [C]

 [F] He doesn't ne[Em]ed sugar --- w[Dm]e all know why

 [F] When he's pla[Em]nning the broken [G]hearts' bring and buy..... bring and buy, yeah!

 [C] I wanna bel[Am]ong and I[C] wanna be[Am]

 [Em] Part of the Lovers' [F]Societ[G]y

 [C] I wanna bel[Am]ong and I[C] wanna be[Am]

 [Dm] Part of the Lovers' [F]Society[G]

 [C] They shoul[Am]dn't mess w[C]ith me,[Am] ..... No!

 [C] They shoul[Am]dn't mess w[C]ith me

 [Am] Well they tal[C]k about thin[Am]gs that do not make [C]my agenda [Am]at the Lovers'[C] Society   [Am]        [C]

 [Am] The commit[C]tee are emot[Am]ional b[C]ig spender[Am]s at the Lovers[Em]' Society        [F]

 [Dm] They've always go[G7]t a quorum --- [C]they love to love[Cmaj7]  to alway[Am]s agree

 [Dm] But this is the lov[G7]ers' famous forum an[C]d they've [Em]excluded[F] cynical[C] me

 [F] They say it'[Em]s paranoia[Dm] and I've got to pay time

 [F] But I think i[Em]t's paranormal [G]that they're so blatant... They're so blatant!

 [C] I wanna bel[Am]ong and I[C] wanna be[Am]

 [Em] Part of the Lovers' [F]Societ[G]y

 [C] I wanna bel[Am]ong and I[C] wanna be[Am]

 [Dm] Part of the Lovers' [F]Society[G]

 [C] They shoul[Am]dn't mess w[C]ith me,[Am] ..... No!

 [C] They shoul[Am]dn't mess w[C]ith m[Am]e      [C]          [Am]                 [C]

 [Am] Casanov[C]a and Don Jua[Am]n talking turke[C]y in the corne[Am]r at the Lovers'[C] Society   [Am]         [C]

 [Am] Sylvia Plat[C]h and Mrs. Brown[Am]ing they just go f[C]or a sauna[Am] at the Lovers[Em]' Society

 [F] I'm standing at the lov[G]er's keyhole   w[C]ith half[Cmaj7]  a bottl[Am]e of Beck's

 [F] 'Cause it sure felt col[G]d and lonely, suck[C]in' my t[Em]humb in th[F]e annexe[C].

 [F] You should see the[Em] archives [Dm]on the shelf,

 [F] Proves every[Em] lover just [G]loves him or herself,

 [G7] Him or herself, him or herself, Woah!

 [C] I'm vaguely [Am]bitter, 'cause th[C]ey've written me[Am]

 [Em] Out of the text of the L[F]overs' Soci[G]ety

 [C] I wanna bel[Am]ong and I[C] wanna be[Am]

 [Dm] Part of the Lovers' S[F]ociety[G]

 [C] They shou[Am]ldn't mess[C] with m[Am]e, .... No!

 [C] They shou[Am]ldn't mess[C] with m[Am]e .... (Nah!)

 [C] They shou[Am]ldn't mess[C] with m[Am]e .... No![Em]       [F]           [G]               [C]

Chords

[C][B][D]
 [E]  [A]  [D]  [G]  [B]  [E]

 A    [0 0 2 2 2 0]
 D    [x 0 0 2 3 2]  or  [2 0 0 2 3 2]
 E    [0 2 2 1 0 0]

 C    [0 3 2 0 1 0]
 Am   [0 0 2 2 1 0]
 Em   [0 2 2 0 0 0]
 F    [1 3 3 2 1 1]
 Dm   [x 0 0 2 3 1]
 G7   [3 2 0 0 0 1]
Cmaj7 [0 3 2 0 0 0]
 G    [3 2 0 0 0 3]

BASS RUNS are shown in the music in square brackets, e.g. [A B C C# D]

At the end of KISS, {12th fret trebles} uses a single finger (index or middle)
to fret the 3 or 4 treble strings of which usually 3 or  maybe  4  are  played
with a sequence of down, up, downstrum, etc.

Notes

1. The first part of Kiss  is  played  in  bass-strum  style,  but  I  haven't
   included the bass notes, only the chords.

2. There's no reason you have to sing Kiss with Lovers' Society, and in fact I
   expect Wes sometimes sings it on its own.

3. If anyone has a better idea for the fourth line of Lovers' Society then let
   me know.  "Finn and Esse" is merely what I thought sounded,  syllable-wise,
   like what Wes sings.  It doesn't make any sense to me in the context of the
   famous lovers and romantics mentioned in the rest of the song.   Perhaps he
   is trying to say he lacks finesse and he wishes the two parts of  the  word
   would come together.

4. Thanks to Patrick Barnett for sending this to me before I was able  to  get
   hold of the original CD.

5. Feel free to email me with any comments (see header for  email  address)
   or to request tabs for songs.  If you have a favourite  JWH  song  you'd
   like me to have a go at, let me know.   I now have the four full albums,
   "The Name Above The Title", "It Happened One Night",  "Why We Fight" and
   "Here Comes The Groom".  If I haven't got the songs,  I  could  only  do
   them if you send me an audio tape with them on.  If you could  work  out
   the lyrics, that would be a great help.  The songs  I've  tabbed/chorded
   so far are:
        From "The Name Above The Title":
                I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
                Save A Little Room For Me
                The People's Drug
                The Person You Are
                Long Dead Gone              } lyrics supplied by
                Backing Out                 } Alan Pulliam - thanks
        from "It Happened One Night":
                Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man's Song)
                                            - thanks to Will Vaughan & "Sen"
                Kiss/Lovers' Society
    and from "Here Comes The Groom"
                The Red Rose And The Briar  } thanks to Patrick Barnett
    and coming soon, the version not from "Here Comes The Groom" of
                When The Sun Comes Out      } thanks to Patrick again

   These are archived on the guitar tab archives,  ftp.nevada.edu  and  its
   mirror sites such as ftp.uwp.edu - you can find local  mirror  sites  by
   using a program such as "archie".   Cal Woods  &  Jim  Carson,  the  new
   maintainers of the Nevada archive have kindly placed in it a file to aid
   archie searches.  It is called "Nevada.Guitar.Archive".   You  can  find
   the guitar directory of any nearby mirror sites using:

   unix% archie -m5 -N Nevada.Guitar.Archive

   Host unix.hensa.ac.uk

       Location: /pub/uunet/doc/music/guitar
{sot}              FILE -r--r--r--         80  Jun 16 09:21  Nevada.Guitar.Archive{eot}

   Wes's tabs are archived under ???/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

6. The FTP archive at Trinity College Dublin  (ftp.maths.tcd.ie)  has  also
   uploaded a lot of Wes songs in the directory:
        /pub/music/guitar/h/john_wesley_harding

   In addition to the songs I've worked out, there is  a  copy  of  Crystal
   Blue Persuasion, originally by Tommy  James  and  the  Chandelles  (sp?)
   which appears on "The Name Above The Title".  There doesn't appear to be
   a mirror site to Trinity College Dublin.

7. Enjoy!

Regards,

Ryan Harding

Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC

"Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?"
 - John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title"