Is Anybody There

From: Paul Hutchinson


F      Fsus4  Fsus2  F        x2

         Bb/C           F  Bb/C F
Well I'm out here on my own      
 C             Bb    Am Bb
 following the stars
C      A/C#  Dm         
Asking on my knees for some 
      C        Bb
direction, please,
     Bb/C               F     Bb  
And, God, you know it's hard
C   F

Cause I'm such a stubborn man, Lord,
 I'm stubborn as a mule
But even though I struggle some, I 
belive a change will come
Now, here, you love a fool

Am7                          
  I see a road and a flash of 
Bb
lightning
Gm7                    Bb/C
  Let me tell you it's frightning

           Dm     C     Bb
Is anybody there? Oh, I need 
              F
somebody tonight
   Dm        C        Gm          
To care- I'm feeling alone and it 
F/A        Bb        C
just don't seem right
           Dm     C     Bb
Is anybody there? Oh, I need 
               F
somebody to be
                 Eb/Bb           
To know that I'm good enough for 
Dm/A
love
          Bb/C F
To walk beside me



And as a woman in this world, well 
you must have felt like this
That a man might come along with 
another hard luck song
And betray you with a kiss
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But would you reconsider me - though
 I know I've caused you pain
I've taken vows with you, and I 
believe them to be true
Now can we take a little rain?

We could hit that road in a flash of
 lightning
Maybe it won't be so frightning

 x2

 x7
I'm gonna keep on walking, baby ...
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On the album, the song  is  carried 
 by  electric piano, with electric
guitar and Hammond organ being 
decorative.  If  you want to play it
 by
yourself, and you're not totally 
confident in the key of F (rolls 
eyes
condescendingly), you may find it 
easier to  play  in D with a capo on
the 3rd fret. In this case, F  
becomes D, Bb/C becomes G/A 
(x00033), C
becomes A, Bb becomes G, Am   
becomes   F#m, A/C# becomes F# 
(244322),
Dm becomes Bm, Gm7 becomes Em7,  F/A
  becomes D/F# (200232), and Eb/Bb
becomes C/G.

Anyway, back to what IS on the  
album. The guitar, piano and organ 
are
pretty well mixed together, and so  
it's  quite  hard to pick out what
the guitar is doing. Hence the 
following transcription is 
approximate,
and any repeating  sections  will  
probably  be  played with different
variations each time - but what's 
here should give you a fair idea.
Please don't try to play it 
note-for-note.
Comments and corrections welcome....

Intro riff:
  +   +   +   +         +   +   +   
+
|---------------------|-----------
|-10--------------10--|-11--------
|---------------10----|--12-------
|-------------10----10|-----------
|---------------------|-----------
|---------------------|-----------

||----------| 
||------11--| 
||----12--12| 
||--10------| 
||----------| 
||----------| 

|----------------------|---------
|----------------------|----10---
|------------------10--|---10----
|-10----------10-12--10|-10------
|-10-------------------|---------
|----------------------|---------

||------------| 
||13--13------| 
||10--10------| 
||12--12------| 
||------------| 
||------------| 

Verse: (Play twice, omitting last 2 
chords 2nd time)
  +   +   +   +         + + +   +   
+ + + +   + + +  +
|---------------------|---------8-
|-10------10---10h11--|-10----8---
|-10-----------10h12--|-10--------
|-10----10------------|-----10----
|---------------------|-----------
|---------------------|-----------

|||-6---6-5-|-6---------| 
|||-6---6-5-|-6---------| 
|||---------|-----------| 
|||---------|-----10-11-| 
|||---------|-----10-11-| 
|||---------|-----8--9--| 

|--------------|-------------|----
|--------------|-------11-11-|-10-
|--------10-9--|-7-----12-12-|-10-
|-12---12---10-|-8-----------|-10-
|-12-----------|-------------|----
|-10-----------|-------------|----

||---------|-------------| 
||---6--8--|-10----11-11-| 
||---7--9--|-10----12-12-| 
||---8--10-|-10----------| 
||---------|-------------| 
||---------|-------------| 

Bridge:
  + + + +   + + + +   +     +  .  +.
    +       + + + +
|-.*|---------|----------13-13----
|-8-8-----|-6----6--|-11----------
|-5-5--5--|-7-------|-10----------
|-7-7---7-|-8-------|-12----------
|---------|---------|-------------
|---------|---------|-------------

||------|---------|       
||13-13-10~~~~|-11------| 
||------------|-12------| 
||------------|-12------| 
||------------|---------| 
||------------|---------| 

Chorus:
  +   +     +   +     + + + +   +   
+       +   +     +   + + +
|-------------------|---------|---
|-6---------6---5---|-----6---|-6-
|-7------7p5----5---|-----5---|-7-
|-7------7p5--------|-8---7---|-7-
|-------------------|-8-------|---
|-------------------|-6-------|---

||------------------|--/6-5-6---| 
||----------6-------|--/8-6-6-5-| 
||------7p5-7-------|-------7-5-| 
||------7p5-7-------|---------5-| 
||------------------|-----------| 
||------------------|-----------| 

|-------------------|---------|-
|-6---------6---5---|-----10--|-
|-7------7p5----5---|-----10--|-
|-7------7p5--------|-8---10--|-
|-------------------|-8-------|-
|-------------------|-6-------|-

||--------|-----| 
||11--10--|-11--| 
||12--10--|-12--| 
||13--12--|-----| 
||--------|-----| 
||--------|-----| 

Format:
   4 bar electric piano introduction
   Intro riff
   Verse
   Bridge
   Chorus
   Intro riff
   Verse
   Bridge
   Chorus x2
   Intro riff x7

Notation used:
   + = Marks the beat
   p = Pull-off
   h = Hammer-on
   / = Slide
   ~ = Vibrato
   . = Staccato