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Real Good Looking Boy – guitar tab

Real Good Looking Boy | guitar tab
By The Who, 2003
>From Then and Now 1964-2004
Written by Pete Townshend, Creatore, Peretti, Weiss ©2004 Eel Pie Publsihing Ltd. & Gladys Music Inc.

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transcribed by             orig 2004-03-05          Whotabs                    
litgo@aol.com              rev1 2007-03-07          www.thewho.net/whotabs     
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End of bridge correction by Sameer Barua (whotabs@sameerbarua.com)


Capo on 3 [electric]         [Acoustic] no capo

C       x35588                 x32013 and x355xx
G       355433 and 355733      3x0033 and 3(t)x543x
Gsus4   355533                 3x2013 and 3(t)x553x
Am      5(t)77555              x02210
F       xx3565 and xx3568      x33210 and x33211
Bb      6x3366                 x1333x
F/A     5x3565                 x0321x
Gm      355333                 35533x
Em                             022000
B                              x244xx
Asus4/D                        xx0230
A/C#                           x4222x
Dm7                            xx0211 or x57565


[Can't Help Falling In Love piano intro:]
|C   G   Am    F    C    G    
|F   G   Am    Dm (E F)   C    G...

[verse, main pattern]
||:C    G    |Am     F     :||

|C                          G                          |
   When I think back to the first time in my childhood
|Am                  F                        |
   When I saw that face I thought right then
|C          G                |Am         F          |
   That's a real good-lookin' boy

I saw myself in the mirror in profile for the first time
I thought, hey, that's a real good-lookin' boy

And I felt then that I moved with all those lucky fucks and angels
High in the theatre in the sky

So I ran to my mother and I said, hey, ma, take a look at me
Have you ever seen a teen fly so high?

[chorus]
|C            G                |Am         F
     That's a real good-lookin' boy
     That's a real good-lookin' boy

She said, well, you know, you're an ugly boy
You don't really look like him

In this long line there's been some real strange genes
You got 'em all, you got 'em all, with some extras thrown in

That's a real good-lookin' boy
That's a real good-lookin' boy
Oh, that's a real good-lookin' boy
Yeah, that's a real good-lookin' boy

|Bb  F/A   Gm   F   |

[interlude]
|C    G  |Am         |F           C         |G    Gsus4  G Gsus4 G
 Wise man say    only fools, only fools rush in
   |F    G    |Am   F         |C    G            |
But I, I can't help falling in love, in love with you

|C   F  G  C  F  G  |C  F  G  C   F   G  |C  F  G   C   F   G  |C      |

|Em     B    |Em       B            |Em          B            |
|------------|----------------------|-------------------------|
|----8~------|-----8-\/-------------|-------------------------|
|--9------9--|----9------8-9-8-9-11-|11/12-----12---11----9-8-|
|-9-9----9-9-|---9------------------|------------13-----------|
|7-----------|--7-------------------|-------------------------|
|------------|----------------------|-------------------------|

                    [2/4]          [4/4]
|Em    Asus4/D A/C# |Dm7           |Gsus4  G     |
|-------------------|--------------|-------------|
|-------------------|--------------|-------------|
|9~--11/12-12/14--12|12/15------15-|15/17--------|
|-------------------|--------------|-------------|
|-------------------|--------------|-------------|
|-------------------|--------------|-------------|

[repeat intro]

Now I'm here with you, little darlin'
And you say you're beautiful as you are
And I've managed somehow to survive

You arrive in my life like a fragrance
You help me find a way to laugh
And now I know how so-called beauty lies

God gave him a face then he gave me something above
God gave me grace, man, he gave me your sweet, sweet, sweet love

You make me feel I'm a real good-lookin' boy
I feel I'm a real good-lookin' boy
Oh, that's a real good-lookin' boy
Oh, that's a real good-lookin' boy


|Bb   F/A   Gm   F   |C        

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litgo@aol.com

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