Oh Babe What Would You Say

Words & Music by E. S. ("Hurricane") Smith
Recorded by Hurricane Smith, 1972 (#3


Intro:  |  C  -  G#7  |  Dm7 - G7+ |

C   CM7 C CM7  CM7/6 CM7  C CM7  
Have I  a hope  or   half a chance 
  
CM7  A7/9  Am7 A7/9  A9  A7/9 Am7  A7/9  Am7  Dm  Dm+7  Dm7  Dm6  
 To   e  - ven  ask  if    I could dance with you   

Gdim Dm  Dm+7  Dm7  
Yoo  hoo

Dm6         Dm     Dm7     Fm       Fdim     C   C/B  Am7  
Would you greet me or po- lite - ly turn a - way 

Am7/G        Dm  Dm+7    Fm     Fdim   C        C/B   B7
Would there suddenly be sunshine on a cold and rainy day?

   Dm   Dm+7  Dm7     Fdim      G7  Fdim  G7    G - Am7 - G/B
Oh babe          what would you say 


C    CM7   C  CM7  CM7/6 CM7   C    CM7  
For there are you, sweet lol - li - pop 

CM7 A7/9 Am7 A7/9  A9  A7/9 Am7 A7/9 Am7  Dm  Dm+7  Dm7  Dm6  
And here am    I  with such  a  lot   to say 

Gdim Dm  Dm+7  Dm7  
Hey  hey 

Dm6      Dm       Dm7     Fm       Fdim   C   C/B  Am7  
Just to walk with you a - long the milky way 

Am7/G     Dm      Dm7       Fm         Fdim       C         C/B       B7
  To ca -ress you thru the night time, bring you flow - ers ev' - ry day 

   Dm   Dm+7 Dm7     Fdim      G7  Fdim  G7    G - Am7 
Oh babe         what would you say? 


Coda:

  B     C   G  C      G   B  C    
'Cause, oh,   baby I know,     

   G   C           Gdim Cdim  Dm  Dm+7  Dm7 Gdim  Dm  Dm+7  Dm7
I know   I could be so   in  love           with you.

G  Am7 Dm7     Dm7-5      Fm      Fdim     C
And I know that  I could make you love me too 

       Dm      Dm+7  Fm     Fdim     C   G  Cdim  Am7  Dm  Dm+7  Dm7
And if I could only hear you say you do-----------------------------

   Fdim      G7   Fdim  G7  Cdim  G7   G/B  C
But an - y - way,           what would you say.

Suggested by two recent visitors - Mike Minicola, and Egon. This song has an instrumental "outro" which can mainly be drawn from what I'm referring to here as the Coda. My own choice would probably be to play all but the third line.

The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.