Tanita Tikaram - Twist in My Sobriety

      Song: Twist in my sobriety (Live acoustic 2013)
Artist: Tanita Tikaram
Composer: Tanita Tikaram

Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' at ultimateGuitar.com)
3rd Nov 2018

Link to this solo studio performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXePfBKjbek

Tanita performs this solo version a whole tone higher than the
original album recording, unusual in popular music as most
recording artists lower the key over their career.
She plays fingerstyle and picks only selected strings. 
She plays a C chord with a top G on the 1st string but then
doesn't play that high E string.

This is a different arrangement to the original in that she misses
out some of the repeat lines in all the choruses and also doesn't
play the final 'Cup of tea...' and 'Half the people...' verses.

The C7 only seems to appear in the break, but could be used as
an intermediate chord between the C and Fm7 in all the verses.

CAPO: 2nd fret (Will then sound in the key of Gm)

Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
Fm7    = 1x111x or 131111   Fm = 133111
Bbm7-5 = x1212x             C7 = x32310
C      = x32010 or x32013

h = hammer-on  p = pull-off

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[Intro]
    Fm7          Bbm7-5       C            Fm7
e |------------|------------|------------|---------1-h4-p1---|[x2]
B |-----1--1---|-----2--2---|-----1--1---|----1--1--------4--|
G |-----1--1---|-----1--1---|-----0--0---|----1--1-----------|
D |-----1--1---|-----2--2---|-----2--2---|----1--1-----------|
A |------------|--1-----1---|--3-----3---|-------------------|
E |--1-----1---|------------|------------|--1----1-----------|

[Verse 1]
Fm7                           Bbm7-5
     All God's children need travelling shoes,
C                             Fm7
     Drive your problems from here,
Fm7                       Bbm7-5
     All good people read      ...good books,
C                            Fm7
     Now your conscience is clear,
                        C                        Fm7
I hear you talk, girl, ...now your conscience is clear!

[Verse 2]
Fm7                        Bbm7-5
     In the morning when I wipe my brow,
C                       Fm7
     Wipe the miles a - way,
Fm7                        Bbm7-5
     I like to think I can be so willed,
C                          Fm7
     And never do what you say,
                      C                        Fm7
I'll never hear you,  ...and never do what you say!

[Chorus]
N.C.      C                   Fm7
Look my eyes are just holo - grams,
          C                          Fm7
Look your love has drawn red from my hands,
        Bbm7-5                       Fm7
From my hands, you know, you'll never be,
            C                  Fm7
More than twist in my sobrie - ty,
            C                  Fm7
More than twist in my sobrie - ty!

  Bbm7-5          C             Fm7
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

[Verse 3]
Fm7                         Bbm7-5
     We just poked a little     ...empty pie,
C                            Fm7
     For the fun that people had at night,
Fm7                                  Bbm7-5
     Late at night don't need host - tility,
C                      Fm7
     Timid smile, and pause to free,
Fm7                          Bbm7-5
     I don't care about their   ...different thoughts,
C                           Fm7
     Different thoughts are good for me,
Fm7                 Bbm7-5
     Up in arms and chaste and whole,
C                       Fm7
     All God's children took their toll!

[Chorus]
N.C.      C                   Fm7
Look my eyes are just holo - grams,
          C                          Fm7
Look your love has drawn red from my hands,
        Bbm7-5                        Fm7
From my hands, you know, you'll never be,
           C                   Fm7
More than twist in my sobrie - ty,
           C                   Fm7
More than twist in my sobrie - ty!

[Break]
  C            Fm7          C            Fm7
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |

 Bbm7-5        C            C7
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |

[Verse 4]
Fm                     Fm
     Cup of tea, take time to think, yeah,
Fm                  Fm
     Time to risk a life, a life, a life,
Fm                       Bbm7-5
     Sweet and handsome,     ...soft and porky,
     C                           Fm7
You pig out 'til you've seen the light,
 C                            Fm7
Pig out 'til you've seen the light!

[Chorus]
N.C.      C                   Fm7
Look my eyes are just holo - grams,
          C                          Fm7
Look your love has drawn red from my hands,
        Bbm7-5                        Fm7
From my hands, you know, you'll never be,
           C                   Fm7
More than twist in my sobrie - ty,
           C                   Fm7
More than twist in my sobrie - ty,
           C                   Fm7
More than twist in my sobrie - ty!