Everything Works If You Let It by Cheap Trick bass tab (text):

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From: Glen Norman Pavan 

artist:  Cheap Trick
title:  Everything Works If You Let It
album:  single, also on Roadie soundtrack
key:  A/f#
tuning:  standard  E A D G

this tune, put simply, is a bitch at first, but then quite fun
All of the active parts are tabbed.


intro

(B)  (C)  (D)

riff 1

G--------------------------------|
D------------------------------2-|
A----------------------2-2-3-4---|
E--0-0-2-2-3-3-4-4-5-5-----------|

play riff 1 twice

riff 2
G-------------------------------------------------------------|
D------------------------------------------0---0--2--2--------|
A-------------------------------2-2-3-4--------------------0--|
E--0---0---2---2----3-3-4-4-5-5-------------------------------|
   Everything works if you let it, if you let it in your heart

play riff 2 twice

verse

     She is the (D)girl of his dreams
     He wants (F#)her, he thinks forget it
     He's got a (E)pain in his heart he feel like cryin
     So (Eb)lonesome for love* he feels like dyin
     but (D)don't stop the dream
     He can (F#)fix it, I know he can
     He's the (E)world's world's greatest at the work that he does
     when he (Eb)moves on down the line

chorus

(with riff 1)  Everything works if you let it
(with riff 1)  Everything works if you let it
(with riff 2)  Everything works if you let it, if you let it in your heart

second verse

     She is the girl of his dreams, he wants he, he thinks forget it
     He'd love to look inside her heart and see if she agrees
     But don't stop the dream, he can fix it, I know he can
     He's good, he's great at the work that he does
     And there's magic in the air

repeat chorus

bridge (from hell)

    ---G------     ----G/F---    ---Em----    ---Eb+-----|
G--------------------------------------------------------|
D---------9-------------9-------------9-------------9----|
A---10___---10-----8-10---10-----7-10---10-----6-10---10-|  (___=hold)
E--------------------------------------------------------|
   good times     bad times     don't know what to do


   ---C7----      ---G/D----   --Eb+---      ---G/F-------------|
G---------------------------------------------------------------|
D-------9-----------------9-------------9----------------9------|
A----10---10-----------10---10-----6-10---10--------8-10---10---|
E--8----------------10------------------------------------------|
  half the time and all the time   don't know if it's true

     repeat bridge
     Someday somewhere he'll know if it's true
     She'll look inside her heart and then decide it's really you
the "you" is drawn out, and the last part of the bridge, in F is repeated
4 times

outro
repeat riff 2 four times
on the last time:

if you (D)let it (E)in your (A)heart  (G) (F#m7) (F#Maj7+5) (A)


*  in the recorded version of the song, he's "lonesome for love", but in an
acoustic demo I've heard he's "lonesome for home".  I much prefer the
"lonesome for home" bit but, hey, Cheap Trick always had the corniest
lyrics.  Still do.  I wouldn't like them so much if they didn't.  :)

Bitch to learn, bitch to tab, but well worth it.

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