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If I Can't Have You – Yvonne Elliman
 - Written by: Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb
From “Saturday Night Fever – Original Movie Soundtrack” (1977)

Tuning: Standard
The recording is somewhere between B and C. I chose the key of C here as it is much easier to play.

CHORDS

      E-A-D-G-B-e

C     x-3-2-0-1-0

Fm/C  x-3-x-1-1-1

G/C   x-3-x-0-0-3

F/C   x-3-x-2-1-1

F/G   3-x-3-2-1-1

[Intro]

 Gm               Gm               Am               Dm      Dm    Am

|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |

     G            Am    Bb    F

|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |

                                              [Don’t know ...]
[Verse]
           C          Fm/C                C
Don't know why I'm surviving every lonely day
             G/C          F/C
When there's got to be no chance for me
              C          Fm/C                 C
My life would end and it doesn't matter how I cry
   G/C                 F/C                 G/C
My tears of love are a waste of time, if I turn away

[Bridge]
     F                       Dm
Am I strong enough to see it through
   F                    Dm  F/G
Go crazy is what I will do

[Chorus]
                    Am       G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
     Em                   Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah 
     Am                      G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
     Em                   Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah 

[Interlude]
Gm               Gm               Am               Dm       Dm    Am
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
     G            Am    Bb    F

|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
                                                            [Can’t let ...]
[Verse]
          C         Fm/C                 C
Can't let go and it doesn't matter how I try
  G/C            F/C       G/C
I gave it all so easily to you my love

[Bridge]
   F                           Dm
To dreams that never will come true
     F                       Dm
Am I strong enough to see it through
   F                    Dm  F/G
Go crazy is what I will do

[Chorus]
                    Am       G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
     Em                   Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah 
     Am                      G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
     Em                   Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah 

[Interlude]
 Dm    Am    G            |
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + |
|Am    Bb    F
|1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |
                                                [If I ...]
[Chorus]
     Am                      G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody babe
     Em                   Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah 
     Am                      G
If I can't have you, I don't want nobody baby
     Em                   Am
If I can't have you ah ah ah – ah 

(repeat and fade)