You Oughta Know Alanis Morissette
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You Oughta Know - Alanis Morrissette
This is my first try tabbing this GREAT song. Comments, additions, correcti-
ons, better tabs, everything is very welcome. Please mail them to me.
The `+' above the tab represents the beat; `~~~' indicates the length of a
sustained note (so it is not a vibrato-sign!)
Guitar 1 (overdriven) plays the chords that are indicated above the lyrics in
the tab. An `x' means a scratch. Chord formation for guitar 1 (here, an `x'
means that the string isn't played):
F#: 244322 F#': x 9 11 11 11 x E: 022100
B: 224442 B' : x 14 16 16 16 x A: 002220
Guitar 2 plays the tab. It is a clean guitar, with some effects (I'm not sure,
I think maybe a chorus or a flanger?)
OK, here we go.
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VERSE 1
(no chords)
I want you to know that I'm happy for you.
I wish nothing but the best for you both.
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Another version of me; Is she perverted like me? Would she go
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down on you in a theatre? Does she speak
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e- lo- quently? And would she have your baby? I'm sure she'd
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make a really excel- lent mother. Cause the
PRE-CHORUS
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F#'
love that you gave that we made wasn't a------ble to
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x x B'
make it enough for you to be o--pen wide.
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x x F#'
No. And every--time you speak her name does she
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x x
know how you told me you'd hold me un--til
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B'
you died? Til you died, but you're still alive. And I'm here
CHORUS
(And I'm here[F#]) to re[E]mind you of the [A]mess you left when you [B]went away.
It's not [F#]fair to de[E]ny me of the [A]cross I bear that you [B]gave to me.
B n.c.
You, you, you oughta know.
VERSE 2 (guitar 1 plays the F#' and B' chords softly)
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F#'
You seem very well.
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B'
Things look peaceful.
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F#'
I'm not quite as well. I thought
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B'
you should know. Did you for-
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F#'
get a--bout me Mr. Du-------plici-ty? I hate to
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B'
bug you in the middle of dinner. It was a
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F#'
slap in the face how quickly I was replaced, and are you
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B'
thinking of me when you f**k her? Cause the
PRE-CHORUS (guitar 1 plays the F#' and B' chords loudly)
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F#'
love that you gave that we made wasn't a------ble to
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x x B'
make it enough for you to be o--pen wide.
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x x F#'
No. And every--time you speak her name does she
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x x
know how you told me you'd hold me un--til
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B'
you died? Til you died, but you're still alive. And I'm here
CHORUS
(And I'm here[F#]) to re[E]mind you of the [A]mess you left when you [B]went away.
It's not [F#]fair to de[E]ny me of the [A]cross I bear that you [B]gave to me.
B n.c.
You, you, you oughta know.
`QUIET PART'
Guitar 1: feedback-effects
Guitar 2 (clean, with effects)
Chord formation: A7: 57565x B7: 224242
A7 B7 A7 B7 A7 B7 B7 B7 (each chord eight counts)
PRE-CHORUS
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F#'
Cause the joke that you laid in the bed that was me, and I'm
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x x B'
not gonna fade as soon as you close your eyes, and you know
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x x F#'
it. And every---time I scratch my nails down
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x x
someone else's back I hope you
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B'
feel it. Can you feel it? And I'm here
CHORUS
(And I'm here[F#]) to re[E]mind you of the [A]mess you left when you [B]went away.
It's not [F#]fair to de[E]ny me of the [A]cross I bear that you [B]gave to me.
[B]You, you, you oughta know. And I'm here
(during the second chorus, guitar 1 plays the tab (with vibrato) overdriven,
and guitar 2 plays the chords overdriven)
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[F#] to re[E]mind you of th[A]e mess you left when you[B] went away. It's not
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[F#]fair to den[E]y me of the [A]cross I bear that you[B] gave to me. You you you
n.c
oughta know.
^Z
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