What Do You Want

From: DTURNER@*
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:38:00 
-0500

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Intro: [bass synth]

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      -1h3-3-3--1h3-3-3--1h3-1h3-
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  F
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 |1h3-1h3--| 


       [acoustic, doubled on piano]
                                  
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      ---6-4-3---6-4-3-----4-3---
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     Cm
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 |----3----------| 
 |3-----5-3------| 
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Verse 1:

   Cm                   F
      What do want from life?
         G#                  
      To kidnap an heiress or 
 G
threaten her with a knife
   Cm                   F
      What do want from life?
         G#               G
      To get cable TV and watch it 
every night


Chorus 1: [faster, honky tonk]

      Cm                   F
      There you'll sit - a lump in 
your chair
                   G#              
      Where do you sleep and what 
      G                     F
do you wear when you're sleeping.


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Verse 2: [original tempo]

   Cm                   F
      What do want from life?
         G#             G
      An Indian Guru to show you the
 inner light
   Cm                   F
      What do want from life?
        G#                         
      A meaningless love affair 
    G                         A->Bb
with a girl that you met tonight


Bridge 1: [stately]

   Bb                              F
                   [bkgrnd]
      How can you tell when you're 
doin' all right?   (do-do-do-do)
                C                  
      Does your bank account swell 
              G            G->A->Bb
while you're dreaming at night?
   Bb                             
      How do you know when you're 
F
really in love?     (do-do-do-do)
         C                        
      Do violins play when you're 
C#                           G#
touching the one that you're loving?
      
A                G#
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....


Verse 3: [modulates up a tone]

   C#m                  F#
      What do want from life?  (what
 do you want from life)
      A                   G#
      Someone to love and somebody 
you can trust
   C#m                  F#
      What do want from life?  (what
 do you want from life)
         A                         
      To try and be happy while you
 G#
 do the nasty things you must


  [Bass Synth Interlude, funky, over
 C#]

  [Wah Guitar solo over C#]


   C#m                  F#    
      What do want from life ?  
   A                     G#
(what do you want from life ?)
   C#m                  F#    
      What do want from life ?  
   A                     G#
(what DO you WANT from LIFE ?)


   [Spoken faster & faster & faster 
over changes. Alternate
    spoken lines between two 
"voices", huckster style.]

      Well, you can't have THAT - 
BUT if you're an American
      Citizen you ARE intitled to:
                 of your own home)
      Polybendum
    - Real Simulated Indian Jewelery
        and Bob Dylan's new unlisted
 phone number
    - RoseMary's Baby!
      or, a Baby's arm holding an 
apple.           [end cold]

 (*) remember him? the 70s TV show 
"The Rookies"? Nurse Jill on duty
     on every shift on every 
floor...

 - another ace 70s tab from Dave 
Turner & Tim Willett