Tracy Chapman – Be Careful Of My Heart chords

Be Careful Of My Heart - Tracy Chapman

Beautiful song and a sophisticated 4 chord trick!

RIFF

    Dm         F    C

e -----1----------0----0------------------------|B ----3----3-----1----1----------0---------0----| Play twice for intro, thenG ---2------2---2----0-----0------0---------0---| repeat all through the firstD --0--------0-3-------------------0---0-----0--| 12 lines of the song.A ------------------3-----2-3-3-----2-3-3-------|E ----------------------------------------------|

Chords

(You can hear she plays the open high 'e' on the album track. I recommend using your 
thumb for the low F.)
       ^
   Dm  F  C  G

e -1---0--0--3-|B -3---1--1--3-|G -2---2--0--0-|D -0---3--2--0-|A -x---3--3--2-|E -x---1--x--3-|



You and your sweet smile
You and all you tantalising ways
You and your honey lips
You and all the sweet things that they say
You and your wild wild ways
One day you just up and walked away
Oh you left me hurting
But I can forgive you for that now
You taught me something
Something it took me have my life to learn
When you give all yourself away
Just tell them to be careful of your heart

                 F        GBe careful of my heart, heart
                  F         CBe careful of this heart of mine
                 F        GBe careful of my heart, heart
                       F                     CIt just might break and send some splinters flying
                 F        GBe careful of my heart, heart
             RIFF x1
Be careful

DmYou, you, you
FYou, you, you
C               (B)CYou, you, you
        F     GTook my love
                  F    CThought you took it all


DmYou, you, you
FYou, you, you
C               (B)CYou, you, you
        F     GTook my love,
                RIFF x 1
Now you're gone

G     I'm not breaking down
  F                  CI'm not falling apart
Dm     I just lost a little faith
F             C     When you broke my heart
Dm     Given a chance
F               CI might try it again
C                        GI would risk it all this time


            DmI'd save a little love for myself
FEnough for my heart to mend
   CA little love for myself
           G                        DmCause one day I just might love again
      FOne day
               CSome sweet smile
                   (B)CMight turn my head
    Dm         F    C        (B)COne day I just might blow myself away
    Dm      F    C    (B)COne day
    Dm      F    C    (B)COne day
    Dm      F    C    (B)COne day



Where you see a '(B)' you can hear that she plays the C chord and drops the low C to a 
B, then back up. This is massively reinforced by the bass, but can be easily enough 
replicated for playing on a solo acoustic.

This has been my first tab and I transcribed it from ear, so it's open to debate. I 
think it's fairly accurate, I hope it helps.

Good luck and thank you.