Jive Talkin'

by The BeeGees (from Saturday Night Fever) · posted by WaltP

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Tab

JIVE TALKIN’
By: Barry, Maurice & Robin Gibb
The BeeGees
From: “Saturday Night Fever”
Key: C

 3    -3    4   -5    4  -3
It's just your jive talk-in'
  1      2   3  -3   4    -3
You're tell-ing me lies, yeah
 -5    4  -3   1    2  3 -3    1
Jive talk-in' You wear a dis-guise
 -5    4  -3  1   2   3 -3   4     3-34
Jive talk-in' So mis-un-der-stood, yeah
 -5    4  -3    1     2   3  -3   1
Jive talk-in' You’re real-ly no good

-5  6   -5     -5   -5  6  -5-3 
Oh, my child You'll nev-er know
  6   6    6   6   -5 -55
Just what you mean to me
-5  6    -5  -5  -5   6  -5
Oh, my child You got so much
  -5*  -5  5  -5* -5  4 -3* 4  4  4
You're gon-na take a-way my en-er-gy
 
 3   -3    4   -5    4  -3
With all your jive talk-in'
  1      2   3  -3   4    -3
You're tell-ing me lies, yeah
-5    4  -3    1    2    3 -3   1
Good lov-in' Still gets in my eyes
-5  4 -3  1    2     3  -3   4
No-bod-y be-lieves what you say
 3    -3   4    -5    4  -3
It's just your jive talk-in'
  1   2   3  -3   1
That gets in the way

-5  6  -5  -5  -5  6  -5-3
Oh my love you are so good
  6    6  6  -5  -5 5
Treat-ing me so cruel
 -5    6  -5  -5   -5  -5  6   -5
There you go with your fan-cy lies
-5*  -5  5  -5*  -5
Leav-in' me look-in'
 4  -3*  4     4     4
Like a dumb-struck fool
  3  -3   4
With all your

3    -3    4   -5    4  -3
It's just your jive talk-in'
  1      2   3  -3   4    -3
You're tell-ing me lies, yeah
 -5    4  -3   1    2  3 -3    1
Jive talk-in' You wear a dis-guise
 -5    4  -3  1   2   3 -3   4     3-34
Jive talk-in' So mis-un-der-stood, yeah
 -5    4  -3    1     2     3   -3   1
Jive talk-in' You’re just ain’t no good

 -5   4   -3
Love talk-in'
1   2   3 -3   4    -3
Is all ver-y fine, yeah
 -5    4  -3
Jive talk-in'
  1   2  3 -3   1
Just is-n't a crime
 3  -3    4     -5   4 -3
And if there's some-bod-y
  1     2     3  -3   4
You'll love till you die
  3  -3    4   -5    4  -3
Then all that jive talk-in'
  1    2   3  -3   1
Just gets in your eye

-7  8 -7  7  6   -5  6 -5  4  -3  
Do be lu bu loop Do be lu bu loop
3  -3  4 -5   6   7
Do do do do doot doot
-7  8 -7  7  6   -5  6 -5  4  -3  
Do be lu bu loop Do be lu bu loop
3    4  -3 
Do doot do

 -5   4   -3
Jive talk-in'
   1     2   3  -3   4    -3
You're tell-ing me lies, yeah
 -5   4  -3
Good lov-in'
  1    2   3  -3  1
Still gets in my eyes
-5  4 -3  1    2    3   -3   4
No-bod-y be-lieves what you say
 3    -3    4   -5    4  -3
It's just your jive talk-in'
  1    2   3 -3   1
That gets in the way

 -5    4  -3
Love talk-in'
1   2   3 -3   4    -3
Is all ver-y fine, yeah
 -5    4  -3     1  2   3 -3   4
Jive talk-in', just is-n't a crime
 3  -3    4     -5   4 -3
And if there's some-bod-y
   1     2   3    -3  4
You'll love till you die
  3  -3   4    -5    4  -3
Then all that jive talk-in'
  1   2   3   -3   1
Just gets in your eye
 -5    4  -3
Jive talk in'

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