Show Some Emotion, words and music by Joan Armatrading, tabbed by Rogier van Mazijk
[C#11]x44444
[C#m7]xx2424
[D6]xx0202
S[A]how some emo[C#m7]tion
P[C#11]ut expression in your eyes[D6]
L[E]ight up[A]
If you're fe[Adim]eling ha[Dm6/a]ppy
B[A]ut if it's bad
Then let those [E7]tears roll down[Am]
there's short pentatonic, repeating riff in the verses:
e ---------------------3--5-5---------------|
B ---------------------3--5-5---------------|
G --2-0---0------------4--5-5---------------|
D ------2---2-0-----------------------------|
A --------------3-0-------------------------|
E ------------------------------------------|
[Am]Some people hurting
Someone choking up inside
Some poor souls dying
Too proud to say
They got no place to lie
And there's people
If they hear a joke
Can't keep the laugh
Out of their eye
S[A]how some emotion
P[C#11]ut expression in your eyes[D6]
L[E]ight up[A]
If you're fe[Adim]eling ha[Dm6/a]ppy
B[A]ut if it's bad
Then let those [E7]tears roll down[Am]
Some people in love
But all they got's a photography
How can they get it
Too scared
To open their mouth
To ask
[C#11]x44444
[C#m7]xx2424
[D6]xx0202
S[A]how some emo[C#m7]tion
P[C#11]ut expression in your eyes[D6]
L[E]ight up[A]
If you're fe[Adim]eling ha[Dm6/a]ppy
B[A]ut if it's bad
Then let those [E7]tears roll down[Am]
there's short pentatonic, repeating riff in the verses:
e ---------------------3--5-5---------------|
B ---------------------3--5-5---------------|
G --2-0---0------------4--5-5---------------|
D ------2---2-0-----------------------------|
A --------------3-0-------------------------|
E ------------------------------------------|
[Am]Some people hurting
Someone choking up inside
Some poor souls dying
Too proud to say
They got no place to lie
And there's people
If they hear a joke
Can't keep the laugh
Out of their eye
S[A]how some emotion
P[C#11]ut expression in your eyes[D6]
L[E]ight up[A]
If you're fe[Adim]eling ha[Dm6/a]ppy
B[A]ut if it's bad
Then let those [E7]tears roll down[Am]
Some people in love
But all they got's a photography
How can they get it
Too scared
To open their mouth
To ask