WHY CAN'T YOU BE GOOD

Live version from the albums "Friends on Tour" and BARKING AT THE ANTS. There are also the acoustic version from Come as a Child and another version from Rehearsal for Reality (Royal Music).

"/*" denote only some of the bass lines, B is the European H, and small-case letters are minor chords. As bm7 could perhaps D/B be used. D, A/C# and Adim/C could start from G string, 7th fret, and by Adim/C is meant only C & D#.

Let me sing a song for you about teenage (or marital) love.. 
 
 
  A        A11/A       A        A11/A  (harmonics on the 12th fret, D & G) 
 
  A        A11/A       A        A11/A 

  A     E/G#    f#m          A         bm7        E   ( /F#  /G# ) 
        (..hmm) la la        La la   la  la la  la                  Oh,
 
 
 
  A          E/G#  f#m       A          bm7     E    /F#  /G#  
  Why can't you behave       Why can't you be good 
 
  A          E/G#   f#m          A       bm7         E     C#7 
  You don't even   try        to do the things you should        well  
 
  f#m         D        A            B    
  What is the reason   I'd like to know 
 
  A        E         A     A11/A    A     A11/A 
  why you can't be good 
 
 
 
      A      E/G#   f#m                    A       bm7         E  /F# /G# 
  You go in to the bedroom  you say you've got to powder your nose 
 
          A       E/G# f#m            A     bm7       E  /D# /D  C#7 
  But the powder is cocaine   I see traces on  your clothes          well 
 
  f#m         D        A           B    
  What is the reason   I'd like to know 
 
  A        E         A     A11/A    A     A11/A 
  why you can't be good 
 
  
    BRIGDE: 

    f#m            D                A                       A 
     Take another look inside  your dreams tonight when you go to sleep 
 
    f#m                D                 E       
     Try and find the reasons why you've lost your way like some 
 
      E        /F# /G# 
     little sheep 
 
 
 
  A      E/G#         f#m           A          bm7     E   /F# /G# 
  You say   that you love me    You say your love is true      but you've 
 
  A       E/G#  f#m              A            bm7       E  /D# /D C#7 
  got so many other lovers  well what am I supposed to do              well 
 
  f#m         D        A           B    
  What is the reason   I'd like to know 
 
  A          E      D  A/C# Adim/C bm7           E(7) 
  why can't you be good            Just be good, baby,  just be good 
 
 
  A       A11/A        A                         A11/A  (harmonics) 
                        Just try, you know, just try to be good 
 
                       A               A11/A  (harmonics)
  You don't have to be perfect, just..       Just be good 
 
  A       A11/A                       A                 
                Sometimes I stay around all night     
 
    A11/A                                                  A 
  waiting for you to come back   You don't come back, you don't come back 
 
  A11/A                           A                               A11/A 
      You come home late the other next day - why can't you be good 
 
  A                        A11/A                          A 
    I quess a little bit lonely sometimes,  a little bit lonely   
 
  A11/A                          A              A11/A 
       I quess a little bit lonely, babe             ah, waitin' for ya' 
 
  A                          A11/A     A     A11/A     A 
    (keep on, keep on, keep on)