The Kooks - Naive Acoustic Chords & Tabs

The Kooks
Naive Acoustic
by Rhys Tapper
Standard tuning

There alot of different versions of this song but after looking at

most of them and some live footage on you tube i came up with this

for the strumming patterns just get them form listening to the song

a few times and keeping up

          Chords
            
G#m7:   464444       (try fingering 6th fret on G)
E:      x79997       (try fingering 11th fret on D) 
F#/A#:  64467x
B:      799877
F#7:    x9897x
B/A#:   6998xx
D#m:    x68876 

          Intro 
G#m7 E F#/A# B F#7

          Verse
G#m                            E
   I’m not saying it was your fault
                                  F#/A#
Although you could have done more
          B     F#7
Oh you’re so naive yet so

G#m                   E
   How could this be done
                               F#/A#
Your such a smiling sweetheart
             B          F#7
Oh and your sweet and pretty face

G#m                 E
   In such an ugly word
                       F#/A#
For something so beautiful
       B          F#7
That everytime I look inside

          Chorus

E                 B            F#/A#
  I know that she knows that I’m not fond of asking
E                      B               F#/A#
  True or false it may be, she’s still out to get me
E                 G#m7           F#/A#
  I know that she knows that I’m not fond of asking
E                        B            B/A#          
  True or false it may be, she’s still out to get me

E  E

          Verse 2

G#m                        E
   I may say it was your fault
                                  F#/A#
Because i know you could have done more
          B     F#7
Oh you’re so naive yet so

G#m                   E
   How could this be done
                       F#/A#
By such a smiling sweetheart
             B          F#7
Oh and your sweet and pretty face

G#m                 E
   In such an ugly word
                       F#/A#
For something so beautiful
       B          F#7
That everytime I look inside

          Chorus
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/the_kooks/naive_acoustic_crd_ver_2.html ]
E                 B            F#/A#
  I know that she knows that I’m not fond of asking
E                      B               F#/A#
  True or false it may be, she’s still out to get me
E                 G#m7           F#/A#
  I know that she knows that I’m not fond of asking
E                        B            B/A#          
  True or false it may be, she’s still out to get me

          Solo
 
for the strumming patterns just get them from listening to the song

a few times and playing along

E ||------------------7--11------------------x----------------------|
B ||--4-/-7-/-7-/-9---7--9---4-/-7-/-7-/-9---11---------------------|
G ||--4-/-6-/-8-/-9---9--9---4-/-6-/-8-/-9---11---------------------|
D ||--6-/-8-/-9-/-11--9--9---6-/-8-/-9-/-11--11---------------------|
A ||------------------x--x-------------------x----------------------|
E ||------------------x--x-------------------x----------------------|

          Verse 3

G#m                   E
  So how could this be done
                       F#/A#
By such a smiling sweetheart
         B     F#7
Oh you're so naive yet so

G#m                 
   such an ugly thing
E                       F#/A#
   For someone so beautiful
       B             F#7
But everytime you're on his side

          Chorus
E                 B            F#/A#
  I know that she knows that I’m not fond of asking
E                      B               F#/A#
  True or false it may be, she’s still out to get me
E                 G#m7           F#/A#
  I know that she knows that I’m not fond of asking
E                        B            B/A#          
  True or false it may be, she’s still out to get me

          Outro

E   D#m  G#m7                 B
                   Just don’t let me down
E   D#m  G#m7                 B
                   Just don’t let me down

E       D#m          G#m7            
Hold on to your kite,                      }
           B                               }
Just don’t let me down,                    } x2 
E   D#m  G#m7                 B            }
                   Just don’t let me down, }   

E       D#m          G#m7            
Hold on to this kite, 
           B
Just don’t let me down,
E   D#m  G#m7                 
                   Just don’t let me down,

Took me ages to write up so i hope you like it