You Can Leave Your Hat On Tab

You Can Leave Your Hat On, Interpretation
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Artist....: Joe Cocker
Title.....: You Can Leave Your Hat On
Author....: Frank Großgasteiger
            http://www.dregenrocks.de
Version...: 4th October 2006

Comment...: While searching for this song on the web, I found some real crap
and some medium crap, but nothing really satisfying, so here is my premium
interpretation of this song. Nevertheless I thought about tranposing this song
into E-Minor for a possible Metal-Version of this cool song, but for now the
original way should be quite enough. :-)

Use chord-variations on your own.

Song Key..: C-Minor


[INTRO]
(Nice lick over Eb, also using during the Bridge near the end of the song.
Try to play it quite smoothly, maybe using hammer-on's.)


This one 3 times:                Then this one quickly played:
e  ----------------------        ----------------|
B  ----------------------        ----------------|
G  ----------------------        ----------------|
D  ------1-------1-------        ----------------|
A  1--3-------3-------3--        ----1-----------|
E  ----------------------        1-3-------------|


[VERSE]
(Use this lick while Cm is played. Or hand this over to your bass.)
e ----------------------|
B ----------------------|
G ----------------------|
D -----2--1--2----------|
A 3----------------0-3--|
E --------------3-------|


Cm
Baby take off your coat / real slow
Cm
And take off your shoes / I'll take your shoes
Cm
Baby take off your dress / yes yes yes


[1ST REFRAIN]
Cm                        Eb
You can leave your hat on
        Fm                Gm
You can leave your hat on
                          Cm
You can leave your hat on


[VERSE]
Cm
Go on over there / Turn on the light / No all the lights
Cm
Come back here / Stand on this chair / That's right
Cm
Raise your arms up to the air / no shake 'em


[BRIDGE]
Cm
You give me a reason to live
Eb
You give me a reason to live
Fm
You give me a reason to live
Gm
You give me a reason to live


[VERSE-LICK-VARIATION]
(Last Tone on Bb to bidge into the Refrain)
  Cm                     Cm                 Bb
e ---------------------- ----------------------|
B ---------------------- ----------------------|
G ---------------------- ----------------------|
D -----2--1--2---------- -----2--1--2----------|
A 3----------------0-3-- 3----------------0-1--|
E --------------3------- --------------3-------|


[2ND REFRAIN | SOME KIND OF SAX-SOLO]
Bb            Fm                  Cm
Sweet darling (you can leave your hat on) You can leave your hat on
Bb          Fm                 Cm
  BABY!!!! (you can leave your hat on) you can leave your hat on
Bb  Fm                    Cm
     (you can leave your hat on)
Bb  Fm                    Cm
     (you can leave your hat on)


[VERSE]
Cm
Suspicious minds a talkin'- try'n' to tear us apart
Cm
they don't believe in this love of mine
Cm
they don't know I love you


Cm                             Eb
They don't know what love is   [INTRO-Lick]
Cm                             Eb
They don't know what love is   [INTRO-Lick]
Cm                             Eb
They don't know what love is   [INTRO-Lick]

Bb
I know what love is


[VERSE-LICK-VARIATION]


[REPEAT 2ND REFRAIN 'til END]


--- Finito!