Better Together (version 3) Chords & Tabs

by Jack Johnson

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Intro, Verse, Interlude, Outro:
BPM: 110
Denominator: 8
Triplet: Yes
Measures: [1, 202, 101, 1, 202, 101, 1, 202, 101, 201, 202, 101, 1, 202, 101, 201, 202, 101, 1, 202, 101, 201, 202, 101]
Chorus, Bridge:
BPM: 110
Denominator: 8
Triplet: Yes
Measures: [1, 202, 101, 201, 202, 101, 1, 202, 101, 201, 202, 101]
Capo: 5th fret
Intro is the literal fret regardless of capo.
Chords are by shape, over the 5 fret capo.

[Intro]
e|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B                                                                        
G|---------12-------10------7-----5-----7------10-------12-------10-----|
D|---10/12----12\10----10\7---7\5---5/7---7/10----10/12----12\10--------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------|

[Verse]
C               C/B            
There's no combination of words
        Am                   Am/G    
I could put on the back of a postcard
F            C/E         
No song that I could sing
    Dm            G          
But I can try for your heart,
C   C/B                   Am                 Am/G
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
       F           C/E        
Like a shoe box of photographs
     Dm          G     
With sepia-toned loving
C           C/B   
Love is the answer
             Am                       Am/G         
At least for most of the questions in my heart like
F          C/E                   Dm 
Why are we here? And where do we go?
                  G       
And how come it's so hard?
C               C/B     
It's not always easy and
          Am            Am/G   
Sometimes life can be deceiving
F                 C/E                Dm                  G     
I'll tell you one thing, it's always better when we're together

[Chorus]
F                 G                         F# F
Mmmm, it's always better when we're together
F                       G                       F# F
Yeah, we'll look at the stars and we're together
F                 G                         F# F
Well, it's always better when we're together
F                 G                         F# F
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

[Interlude]
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G

[Verse]
                 C      
And all of these moments
           C/B                     Am           Am/G
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight,
      F                    C/E 
But I know that they’ll be gone
         Dm            G    
When the morning light sings
           C         C/B
And brings new things
      Am               Am/G
For tomorrow night you see
     F               C/E 
That they’ll be gone too,
         Dm               G 
Too many things I have to do
                    C                 C/B      
But if all of these dreams might find their way
        Am             Am/G
Into my day to day scene
       F            C/E    
I'd be under the impression
      Dm              G   
I was somewhere in between
          C   
With only two,
            C/B 
Just me and you,
            Am               Am/G
Not so many things we got to do
   F                C/E
Or places we got to be
            Dm              G        
We'll sit beneath the mango tree, now

[Chorus]
F                 G                         F# F
Yeah, it's always better when we're together
F                     G                  F# F
Mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
F                 G                         F# F
Well, it's always better when we're together
F                 G                         F# F
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

[Interlude]
C   C/B     Am        Am/G 
Mmm mmm mm mm mmm mm mm mmm
F        C/E     Dm   G    
Mm mm mm mm mmm mmmm mm mmm

[Instrumental]
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G

[Bridge]
Dm                   G            
I believe in memories they look so
Dm                    G           
So pretty when I sleep hey now and
Dm       G                
When I wake up you look so
Dm                      G              
Pretty sleeping next to me but there is
F              G           
Not enough time there is no
F                   G               
No song I could sing and there is no
Dm/F                G           
Combination of words I could say
           Dm/F                    G
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together

[Outro]
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G
C C/B Am Am/G F C/E Dm G
C
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