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Version 1
            'Crippled Inside'(Unreleased Take)
by John Lennon from the "IMAGINE" album,
[Remastered] 2010 & 2000, originally recorded in 1971.

URL:
Crippled Inside (Unreleased Take)/ John Lennon
http://-.-/watch?ds49afXyVCEOGES8

AUTHOR's Note:
This version was borne out of the frustration of not finding an accurate TAB
to match Lennon's twist on C&W music '...with a conscience".
Tab annotated by Richard Grosser ()

Tuning: Standard Tuning.


[CHORDS]
       EADGBe
C:     332010
G7:    320001
F:     133211
C7:    032310
F7:    131211
Bb:    113331
B:     224442
A:     X02220
Am:    X02210
Am7:   X02010
A7:    X02020
G:     320003
G/D:   XX0433
D7:    XX0212
Db9:   X43444
C9:    X32333

(Tempo Adante 2/4)

[Intro]
(Slide Guitar)
C G7 C G F C
F C7 F Bb F C7 F G

[Verse 1]
C                                        C7
You can shine your shoes and wear a suit,
F                                            F7
You can comb your hair and look a quite cute.
C
You can hide your face behind a smile.
A7                  D7
One thing you can't hide,
G                          C
Is when you're crippled in-side.


[Verse 2]
C                                       C7
You can wear a mask and paint your face,
F                                    F7
You can call yourself the human race.
C
You can wear a collar and a tie.
A7                  D7
One thing you can't hide,
G                          C
Is when you're crippled in-side.


[Bridge 1]
A7            Am
Well know you know,

That your cat has nine lives, babe.
D7                   G/D
Nine lives to itself,
C
You only got one,
C                          Am7
And a dog's life ain't fun.
C                 G   C
Mamma take a look out-side.


[Verse 3]
C                                    C7
You can go to church and sing a hymn,
F                                 F7
Judge me by the colour of my skin.
C
You can live a lie until you die.
A7                  D7
One thing you can't hide,
G                          C
Is when you're crippled in-side.


[Instrumental]
C
Take it Billy!
(Honky-Tonk Piano Solo)
C C7 F F7
C C  C A7
D7 G C


[Bridge 2]
(Repeat BRIDGE 1)
A7            Am
Well know you know,

That your cat has nine lives, babe.
D7                   G/D
Nine lives to itself,
C
You only got one,
C                          Am7
And a dog's life ain't fun.
C                 G   C
Mamma take a look out-side.



[Verse 4]
(Repeat VERSE 1)
C                                        C7
You can shine your shoes and wear a suit,
F                                            F7
You can comb your hair and look a quite cute.
C
You can hide your face behind a smile.
A7                  D7
One thing you can't hide,
G                          C
Is when you're crippled in-side.



[Outro]
A7                  D7
One thing you can't hide,
G                          C
Is when you're crippled in-side.

(Slow to 2/2 Tempo)

A7                    D7
One thing you can't hide,
G                          C    Db9 C9
Is when you're crippled in-side.
(End)


[BACKGROUND]
http://-.beatlesbible-/people/john-lennon/albums/imagine/

[COMMENTS]
From Rolling Stone: "Crippled Inside", Imagine, 1971
Lennon followed the opening peace anthem on his second album with this grenade
wrapped in rockabilly rhythm and prairie-saloon piano, with a slinky country-boy
solo on dobro by George Harrison.  The chorus 'One thing you can't hide, Is when you're crippled inside.'
may have been a slap at ex-bandmate Paul McCartney (who would get it full blast on Side Two, in
'How Do You Sleep?').  But when Lennon wrote in the second person, he often did it staring into a mirror."
http://-.rollingstone-/music/news/twenty-underappreciated-john-lennon-solo-songs-20101210
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