You Had To Be There

You Had to Be There
Tabbed by Chris Schulz

Standard Tuning

   E A D G B e
E: 0 2 2 1 0 0
C: x 3 5 5 5 3
G: 3 5 5 4 3 3
D: x 5 7 7 7 5
A: 5 7 7 6 5 5

Intro Riff:
e|-----------------|-------| 
B|-----------------|-------| 
G|-----------------|-9-9-9-| 
D|-----------------|-9-9-9-| 
A|------0-1p0------|-7-7-7-| 
E|-/0-3--------3-0-|-------| 

Play this a couple times.

Verse 1:

E
One voice tryin’ to be heard  (Intro
 Riff)
E
Round peg livin’ in a square world 
(Intro Riff)

C  G  D

Bridge:

Continues after the ad
(D)                               
We were strangers in a strange 
  C  G  D
land
(D)                               
We were reaching for the upper 
  C  G  D
hand
          (D)
We were hard to understand

Chorus:

       E
It was juvenile,
       G
It was something wild,
        A
Part of every child,
E
Yeah, you had to be there.
          E
It was rough and tough,
       G
It was peace and love,
       A
All of the above,
E
Yeah, you had to be there.


Post-chorus riff (after first chorus
 only):
e|-----------------|-------------
B|-----------------|-------------
G|-----------------|-------------
D|-----------------|-------------
A|-----------------|-------------
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-

e|--|                    
B|--|                    
G|--|    Then Intro Riff 
D|--|    again.          
A|--|                    
E|0-|                    


Verse 2:

E
Outcast, this, there, that, so full 
of it (Intro Riff)
E
Don’t tell me it’s somethin’ that 
you never did (IntroRiff)

C  G  D

Then the Bridge again, chorus again.
 Then straight into:

Pre-solo Riff:
e|-----------------|--------------
B|-----------------|--------------
G|-----------------|--------------
D|-----------------|--------------
A|-----------------|-7-7-7-7-7--5-
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|--------------

e|---|---------------------| 
B|---|---------------------| 
G|---|---------------------| 
D|---|---------------------| 
A|---|---------7-7-7-7-7-7-| 
E|7-3|-(3)-5s7-------------| 

e-----------| 
B-----------| 
G-----------| 
D-----------| 
A-7-7-5-----| 
E-------7-3-| 

Play this four times. Each time you 
hit the low G note, do the 5s7 to 
get back to E on
7th fret. I don’t have the solo 
tabbed. After the solo, hit an E, 
let it ring, while
“You had to be there” a few times. 
Then go into the chorus again, 
bumping the chords up
the 7th, 10th, and 12th frets. End 
by playing chorus normally again. 
Let the last E ring.
is correct. I know I've written the 
timing wrong, but the notes are 
right.
“And you can tell Rolling Stone 
Magazine that my last words were... 
'I dig music.’”