If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time Chords & Tabs

by R. Kelly

[Intro]
Cmaj7      Bm7      Am7      Gmaj7    Am7 Bm7
Cmaj7      Bm7     Bbm7 Am7      Gmaj7

[Verse 1]
Am7 Gmaj7           Em7         
Some people live for the fortune
Am7                           D9  
Some people live just for the fame
Am7 Gmaj7                G#dim7     
Some people live for the power, yeah
Am7                               D9  
Some people live just to play the game

[Pre-Chorus]
Gmaj7       Am7            Bm7      Am7   
Some people think that the physical things
  Gmaj7  Am7      Bm7 Cmaj7
Define   what's within
Bm7 Am7  Gmaj7        Am7 
And I've been there before
    Bm7           Am7 
But that life's a bore
   Gmaj7       Am7    Bm7 
So full of the superficial

[Chorus]
            Cmaj9      
Some people want it all
                 Bm7           
But I don't want nothing at all
            Am7     
If it ain't you baby
               Gmaj7   
If I ain't got you baby
Gmaj7 Am7        Bm7 Cmaj7            
Some  people want        diamond rings
               Bm7       
Some just want everything
               Bbm7  Am7    
But everything means nothing
              Gmaj7
If I ain't got you

[Verse 2]
Am7 Gmaj7             Em7        
Some people search for a fountain
Am7                   D9              
That promises forever young (you know)
Am7 Gmaj7                    G#dim7
Some people need three dozen roses
Am7                                  D9       
And that's the only way to prove you love them

[Pre-Chorus]
Gmaj7       Am7        Bm7       Am7
Hand me the world on a silver plater
    Gmaj7  Am7           Bm7 Cmaj7 Bm7 Am7
And what   good would it be
     Gmaj7     Am7  
With no one to share
     Bm7        Am7   Gmaj7 Am7 Bm7
With no one who truly cares for me

[Chorus]
            Cmaj9      
Some people want it all
                 Bm7           
But I don't want nothing at all
            Am7     
If it ain't you baby
               Gmaj7   
If I ain't got you baby
Gmaj7 Am7        Bm7 Cmaj9            
Some  people want        diamond rings
               Bm7       
Some just want everything
               Bbm7  Am7    
But everything means nothing
               Gmaj7  Gmaj7  Gmaj7
If I ain't got you    you    you
Gmaj7 Am7 Bm7 Cmaj9      
Some  peo-ple want it all
                 Bm7           
But I don't want nothing at all
            Am7     
If it ain't you baby
               Gmaj7   
If I ain't got you baby
Gmaj7 Am7    Bm7  Cmaj9        
Some  people want diamond rings
               Bm7       
Some just want everything
               Bbm7  Am7    
But everything means nothing
               Gmaj7
If I ain't got you

[Outro]
   Cmaj7    Bm7                            Am7   Gmaj7
Yeahhhhhh      If I ain't got you with me, baby, ooh
             Am7   Bm7 Cmaj7                          Bm7 
Said nothing in this   whole wide world don't mean a thing
Bbm7 Am7    Gmaj7        D (high range)
if I ain't got you with me, baby
B chromatic scale up an octave, G note in the bass.