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Date: 5/1/99; 3:37:37 PM
From: Str8cntry8@aol.com
Subject: I Want To Know You Before We Make Love -- Alabama

Title:  I Want To Know You Before We Make Love
Artist:  Alabama
Album:  40 Hour Week
Transcribed by:  Tim Rehagen
E-mail address:  Str8cntry8@aol.com

Key:  E major

INTRO:  E   B/E   Amaj7   A/B   E   B/E   Amaj7   A/B

VERSE:
E
Sometimes all you need 

                     Amaj7
Is someone to hold you

E                                             A      
Sometimes that's all you're looking for

          C#m               E/B
But I'd like to take the time

             F#7
To get to know you

          A                     E/G#
'Cause I don't want this time to be

       F#m                B
Like all the times before

CHORUS:
             E
I want to know you 

                    A
Before I make love to you

             E
I want to show you

        E/G#  A        B
All of my    heart

               G#m               C#m
And when I look into your eyes

            G#m              C#m  B   A
I want to feel the love inside----------------

             E
I want to know you

A/B                      E      B/E     Amaj7   A/B
....before we make love

VERSE:
     E                             
I've learned from all those

                           Amaj7
Lonely nights with strangers

           E
It takes time for real love 

         A
To be found

 C#m          E/B
I feel the invitation 

           F#7
of your body

          A                E/G#
But I'd like to look inside your soul

   F#m              B
Before I lay you down

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE:
A               B     
If we take it slow

  G#m         C#m
together,  together

A                       E/G#
We might make it last 

 F#m   B
forever

REPEAT CHORUS

E   B/E    A    A/B

             E              B/E      
I want to know you......

A/B          n.c.                         
.......Before we make......before we make.....

E    B/E    Amaj7    Am    E
love--------------------


Note:
For the chord,  B/E,  I would play it this way:

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Enjoy!!!
Please e-mail me with questions or comments
Tim
Str8cntry8@aol.com