Womans Got Soul

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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:49:08 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers 

 
Subject: ./i/impressions/womans_got_soul.crd

                           "Woman's Got Soul"
                           (Curtis Mayfield)

Intro:

	
 Ab 
 C#6   
 Ab 
 C#6   
 Ab 
 C#6   
 Ab 
 C#6
	/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

Verse 1:

	    
 Ab             
 C#6           
 Ab
	She may not be the best lookin' woman
	   
 C#6     
 Ab   
 C#6  
 Ab  
 C#6
	I ever did see
	     
 Ab       
 C#6           
 Ab
	Nor have the charms of the ladies
	   
 C#6    
 Ab    
 C#6  
 Ab [N.
 C.]
	Of high society

Chorus 1:

	                    
 Bbm  
 Cm  
 Bbm
	But the woman's got soul
	                    
 Bbm  
 Cm  
 Bbm
	Worth all money and gold
	            
 Bbm          
 Cm     
 C#
	And all the love that I have belongs
	       
 Eb          
 Ab  
 C#6  
 Ab  
 C#6  
 Ab  
 C#6  
 Ab  
 C#6
	To the woman with soul

Verse 2:

	Now I'm just a regular fellow
	I don't need much
	I don't need a Cadillac car
	Or diamonds and such

Chorus 2:

	But the woman that I hold
	She's got to have soul
	And then I'm richer than the richest gold
	If the woman's got soul

Bridge [bass plays first Ab on each line alone; horns join on other chords]:

	        (
 C#6)        
 Ab    
 C#  
 Ab [N.
 C.]
	Well, I don't need a woman
	                           
 Ab  
 C#  
 Ab [N.
 C.]
	That's got a whole lotta class
	                   
 Ab    
 C#  
 Ab [N.
 C.]
	Because class in a woman
	                        
 Ab  
 C#  
 Ab [N.
 C.]
	Don't mean she's gonna last
	                   
 Ab    
 D9  
 C#9 [N.
 C.]
	I need the kind of woman
	                              
 Ab         
 D9  
 C#9 [N.
 C.]
	That when I hold she fits so tight, yeah
	                           
 Ab     
 C#  
 Ab [N.
 C.]
	Oh, and when she throws it on me
	                     
 Ab [N.
 C.]
	I give in without a fight       Then I know

Chorus 3:

	The woman's got soul
	Worth all money and gold
	And then I'm richer than the richest gold
	If the woman's got soul

Coda [repeat to fade]:

	       
 C#6          
 Ab   
 C#6   
 Ab
	If the woman's got soul


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers