If I Had A Talking Picture Of You

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                           If I had a talking picture of you   BG de Sylva / Lew Brown
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Tabbed by: Mike Lydiat
E-mail: mike@docsworkshop.co.uk
Tuning:EADGBE

To play along to Bing Crosby's version you need the Capo on fret 3:
Also Capo 3 for this version by Johnny Marvin:

VERSE CHORD SHAPES
   Dm9 G6  C  A7 F9 Fm Cmaj7 Am D  G  G+
E|-0---0---0--3--3--1--0-----0--2--3--3--|
B|-3---3---1--2--1--1--0-----1--3--0--0--|
G|-2---0---0--0--2--1--0-----2--2--0--0--|
D|-3---0---2--2--3--3--2-----2--0--0--1--|
A|-0---2---3--0--0--3--3-----0--0--2--2--|
E|-x---3---x--x--1--1--x-----0--x--3--3--|

CHORUS CHORD SHAPES
   C  G  G7 A7 Dm D7 G+ E  Am
E|-0--3--1--0--1--2--3--0--0--|
B|-1--0--0--2--3--1--0--0--1--|
G|-0--0--0--0--2--2--0--1--2--|
D|-2--0--0--2--3--0--1--2--3--|
A|-3--2--2--0--0--0--2--2--0--|
E|-x--3--3--x--x--x--3--0--x--|

There's a nice little 2 bar Am run-down I use on the penultimate line of each chorus:

|0-0-|0-0-|   You keep an ordinary Am chord in place
|1-1-|1-1-|
|2-2-|2-2-|   and you change the bass note from A to G to F# to F
|2-2-|2-2-|
E|0-x-| x---|   I use my little finger for the G note and my thumb for the F# and F
|x-3-|2-1-|

[VERSE 1]
Dm9            G6              C
I talk to your photograph each day
Dm9                 G6              A7
You should hear the lovely things I say
F9                Fm            Cmaj7
But I thought how happy I would be
Am           D                   G    G+
If your photograph could talk to me.

[CHORUS]
     C                        G
If I had a talking picture of you,
        G7                       C
I would run it every time I felt blue.
        A7                           Dm
I would sit there in the gloom of my lonely little room
       D9                               G         G+
And applaud each time you whispered, "I love you; love you."
       C                             G
On the screen the moment you came in view
         G7                            E
We would talk the whole thing over, we two.
        Am               
I would give ten shows a day, and a midnight matinée,
     Dm            G7         C
If I had a talking picture of you.

[VERSE 2]
Dm9           G6           C
All I have to keep me company
Dm9         G6                A7
Is the photograph you gave to me
F9          Fm                 Cmaj7
I propose a thousand plans but oh
Am               D             G
It don't answer 'Yes' or even 'No'