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Whos Making Love

Johnnie Taylor

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Not Johnnie Taylor's biggest hit - 'Disco Lady' would become the first RIAA
platinum single in 1976 - but probably his best-remembered song:


                          "Who's Making Love"
                  (Banks - Crutcher - Davis - Jackson)

Intro:

	bass (pickup beat)

	 v
	---------|
	---------|
	-----3-5-|
	---------|

	guitar 1:

	 F                             F          Ab    Bb     Ab  F
	 v       v       v       v         v       v       v       v
	-1---1---------1-1-------------1-|-1---1---4---4-6---6-4---1-------|
	-1---1---3-3---1-1-------------1-|-1---1---4---4-6---6-4---1---3---|
	-2---2---2-2---2-2-------------2-|-2---2---5---5-7---5-5---2---2---|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
	             Oww-howw!                          Hear me now!

	bass:

	 v       v       v       v         v       v       v       v
	---------------------------------|---------1---1-3---3-1-----------|
	-3---3-----------3---------------|-3---3-------------------3-------|
	---------5-3-5---------------3-5-|-----------------------------5---|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

	guitar 1 (intro, end of chorus 1):

	 F                             F          Ab    Bb    Ab   C
	 v       v       v       v         v       v       v       v
	-1---1---------1-1-------------1-|-1---1---4---4-6---6-4---8---8---|
	-1---1---3-3---1-1-------------1-|-1---1---4---4-6---6-4---8---8---|
	-2---2---2-2---2-2-------------2-|-2---2---5---5-7---5-5---9---9---|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
	                                                          (All you)

	bass (intro, end of chorus 1):

	 v       v       v       v         v       v       v       v
	---------------------------------|---------1---1-3---3-1---5---5---|
	-3---3-----------3---------------|-3---3---------------------------|
	---------5-3-5---------------3-5-|---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

Verse 1:

	(guitar 2: fills during verse and chorus):

	 v       v       v       v         v       v       v       v
	-----------------------3s5-------|---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
	-----------------------3s5-------|---------------------------------|
	---------------------------------|-------------------------3---3---|
	---------------------------------|---------------------3-5---------|
	---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

	         F                 F      Ab  Bb  Ab  F
	All you fellows, gather 'round me
	            F                    F      Ab  Bb  Ab  F
	And let me give you some good advice
	          F            F      Ab  Bb  Ab  F
	What I'm gonna, gonna ask you now
	             F              F     Ab  Bb  Ab  F
	You better think about it twice
	             Dm                       Am
	While you're lying, cheating on your woman
	          Gm                        Bb        C
	There is something you never ever thought of,   now tell me

Chorus:

	 F                    F       Ab  Bb  Ab  F
	Who's making love to your old lady
	 F                          F      Ab  Bb  Ab  F
	While you were out making love [1: hear me now]
	          F                    F       Ab  Bb  Ab  F
	[1: Now] who's making love to your old lady
	  F                        F   Ab  Bb  Ab  [1: C  2, 3: F]
	While you were out making love

Verse 2:

	I've seen so, so many fellows
	Fall in   that same old bag
	Thinking that a woman   is made to
	To be beat on and treated so bad
	Oh, fellows, let me ask you something
	I'm sure that you never even dreamed of, now tell me

[repeat chorus]

Bridge:

	   F                        Ab/F
	I know there are some women guilty of this too
	Bb/F                                  Ab/F
	I'm not tryin' to run your life, the choice is up to you

	     C         Db        Ab        Eb  C
	     / / / /   / / / /   / / / /   / / / /
	Oh, you   oh! oh, you, you you

Verse 3:

	The reason why   I ask this question
	I used to be the same old way
	When I decided   to straighten up
	I found it was a bit too late
	Oh, yeah, that's when it all happened
	Something I never, never dreamed of

Chorus 3:

	Somebody was-a lovin' my old lady
	While I was out making love
	Somebody was-a lovin' my old lady
	While I was out making love

Coda [repeat to fade]:

	     F                    F       Ab  Bb  Ab  F  [continue]
	Now who's making love to your old lady
	While you were out making love
	(Who?  Who?    Your old lady)
	(While you were out making love)


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers