Learning How to Love You

Song

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From: Paul Hutchinson (u9343164@qub.ac.uk)

LEARNING HOW TO LOVE YOU - John Hiatt

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|E | | | |A E |B7 | | | | x2

E A E B7

I'm 34 years old now and I've come to you

A E A E B7

Baby I don't even know how I got through

A

From the first kiss in the schoolyard

D A B7

Til the last heart broke in two

A E

I didn't know it would be so hard

A E B7

Learning how to love you

|A/E |E |A/E |E |C#m | |B F#m E|A B | x2

There was a life that I was living in some cracked rear view

Where no future was given to a heart untrue

Still I thought that I was so strong

That my will could force me through

I didn't know it would be so long

Learning how to love you

Learning how to love you

F# E A E

I might have never realised the courage in your kiss

A D A B7

And the sweet forgiveness in your eyes

A E etc

Babe I know you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes

Maybe you've left some faces smiling walking off your blues

And I don't pretend to know how you ever saw it through

Cause I only got to where I am now

Learning how to love you

Learning how to love you

Learning how to love you

Love you

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I'm going to introduce some notation for this song (and this song

only), since the pattern of playing is much the same throughout the

song.

For this song, + +

|----%-----|                  |-----------------|
|----0-----| is equivalent to |-----0-0-0-0-0---|
|----1-----|                  |-----1-1-1-1-1---|
|----%-----|                  |-----------------|
|----------|                  |-----------------|
|-0--------|                  |-0---------------|

Verse: + + *

|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|
|---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|-----2-2-----0-0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|---2-|
|---1-|---1-|---1-|---1-|-------------1-1-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|
|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|---%-|
|-----|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---------------|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---|
|-0---|-----|-0---|-----|---------0-------|-----|-----|-----|-----|

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@+@@@@@@@+@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|
|---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|-----2-2-----0-0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|---0-|
|---1-|---1-|---1-|---1-|-------------1-1-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|
|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-----------------|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|-1-%-|
|-----|-2---|-----|-2---|-0---------------|-2---|-----|-2---|-----|
|-0---|-----|-0---|-----|---------0-------|-----|-----|-----|-----|

+ +

|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|-------|
|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---3-|---2-|---0-|---0-|---0-|----2--|
|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|---2-|----2--|
|---%-|-2-%-|---%-|-2-%-|-0-%-|---%-|---%-|-1-%-|---%-|-------|
|-0---|-----|-0---|-----|-----|-0---|-2---|-----|-2---|/4-----|
|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-------|

Then play the section marked by @@@@@

NB The introduction is just the first 2 lines of music with the bar

marked with * replaced by

+ +

|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----2-------2---|
|-2/4-----2h4-----|
|-----------------|

Chorus: (x2)

+ + + + + + + +

|-----0-0-0-------|-----0-0-0-------|-------0---0-----|-----0-0-0-------|
|-------------0---|---------0-------|-----0-------0---|---------0-------|
|-4h6-------------|---------4-------|-4h6-------------|---------4-------|
|-----------------|-4h6---------6---|-----------------|-4h6-------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-------------7---|

+ + + + + + + +

|-----9-9---9-----|-----------------|-----------------------|---------|
|-----9-9---9-----|-------9---------|-----------------------|---------|
|-------------9---|-----9-----------|-----------------------|---------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------|---------|
|-----------------|-9h11----9---x-x-|-9--9--9--9-------7----|-7---7---|
|-9---------------|-------------x-x-|-11-11-11-9-------7----|-9---7---|

Note 1 - Going into the second verse, the last chord is omitted - hang on

the previous one.

Note 2 - The song finishes with this section played twice. At the end,

slow down and finish with

|-----|
|-----|
|-----|
|-2---|
|-2---|

|-2h4-|

Bridge: (I might have never ...) % % + + % %

|-----|-----|-----|-----|---%-|---0-|-0-0-|-0---0-0-|-0-0-|-0-0-|
|---%-|---%-|---%-|---%-|---0-|---0-|-0-0-|-0---0-0-|-2-2-|-2-2-|
|---3-|---3-|---3-|---3-|---1-|---2-|-1-%-|-1---1-0-|-2-%-|-2-%-|
|---4-|---4-|---4-|---4-|---%-|---%-|-2---|-2-----0-|-2---|-2---|
|---%-|-4-%-|---%-|-4-%-|-----|-2---|-2---|-2-----0-|-0---|-0---|
|-2---|-----|-2---|-----|-0---|-----|-0---|-0-------|-----|-----|

% % % % % % % % % + +

|---0-|---0-|-0-0-|-0-0-|-2-2-|-0-0-|-0-0-|-0-0-|---0-|-------|
|---0-|---0-|-2-2-|-2-2-|-3-3-|-2-2-|-0-0-|-0-0-|---0-|----2--|
|---%-|---%-|-2-%-|-2-%-|-2-2-|-2-%-|-2-%-|-2-%-|---%-|----2--|
|-----|-----|-2---|-2---|-0-%-|-2---|-1---|-1---|-----|-------|
|-----|-2---|-0---|-0---|-0---|-0---|-2---|-2---|-2---|/4-----|
|-0---|-----|-----|-----|-2---|-----|-----|-----|-----|-------|

Notation used:

+ = beat marker

h = hammer-on

/ = slide

x = percussive note produced by striking the

string whilst damping with your left hand

Format:

Introduction

Verse

Chorus

Verse

Chorus

Bridge

Verse

Chorus (x2)