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To: jamesb@nevada.edu
Subject: Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
From: rick@maya.demon.co.uk (Rich Tebb)
Subject: TAB: Sister Morphine (Rolling Stones)
Anyone who attempts this one, I would really appreciate your feedback
because I'm tabbing it quickly and I may well have made some mistakes.
I CRDed the whole song because the chords change from verse to verse.
There are of course other little twiddly bits than the 2 fills I've
tabbed, but I'm sure you'll get the picture...
I'm not even going to attempt to tab Ry Cooder's slide guitar for
this- are there any tab conventions for slide?
Sister Morphine
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Artist: The Rolling Stones
Writer: Mick Jagger/Keith Richard
Album: Sticky Fingers
Am7 Dsus2
X O X X O O
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| | | | 1 | | | | | | |
+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+--+--+
| | 2 3 | | | | | 2 | |
+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+--+--+
| | | | | 4 | | | | 3 |
+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+--+--+
Intro:
Am7 Am Am7 Am
Am7 Am Am7 Am
Here I lie in my hospital bed
Dsus2 Am Dsus2 Am
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?
G F *[fill 1]
Oh, and I don't think I can wait that long
C G F Am
Oh you see I'm not that strong
Am7 Am Am7
Am Am7 Am
The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears
Dsus2 Am *[fill 2]Dsus2 Am
Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here?
G F
What am I doing in this place?
E F
Why does the doctor have no face?
G F
Oh, I can crawl across the floor
Am F Am
Can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score.
Am7 Am Am7 Am
Well it just goes to show things are not what they seem-
Dsus2 Am Dsus2 Am
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams.
G F
Oh can't you see I'm fading fast?
Am F Am
And the big shot will be my last.
Am7 Am Am7 Am
Sweet cousin cocaine, lay your cool cool hands on my head
Dsus2 Am Dsus2 Am
Oh c'mon Sister Morphine, better make up my bed
G F
Cos you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead
Am F E Am
You can sit around and watch all the clean white sheets stained red.
Fill 1
F Fsus2 F
e|1-------1-----1-|1---1---1---1---|1-------1-------|----------------|
B|1-------1-----1-|1---1---1---1---|1-------1-------|------------0---|
G|2-------2-----2-|2---2---2---0---|2-------2-------|------------0---|
D|3-------3-----3-|3---3---3---3---|3-------3-------|------------0---|
A|3-------3-----3-|3---3---3---3---|3-------3-------|----0---2-------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
C G
e|----------------|----------------|--------------3-|----------------|
B|1-------1-------|1-----------1---|0-------------0-|----------------|
G|0-------0-------|0-------0H2-0---|0-------0-----0-|0---0---0---0---|
D|0--H2---2-------|2---0H2---------|0-------0-----0-|0---0---0---0---|
A|3-------3-------|3---------------|2-------2-------|2---2---2---2---|
E|----------------|----------------|3-------3-------|3---3---3---3---| etc.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Oh you see That I'm not that...
Fill 2
Am Dsus2
e|--------------0-|----------------|0-------0-----0-|0---0---0---0---|
B|1-------1-----1-|1---------------|3-------3-----3-|3---3---3---3---|
G|2-------2-----2-|2---0H2-----0---|2-------2-----2-|2---2---2---2---|
D|2-------2-----2-|2-------0H2-----|0-------0-------|0---0---0---0---|
A|0-------0-------|0---------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| etc.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Morphine How long have I been lying...
l+p
black rick
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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FrEAk!!! Wanna Be |
#1 by FrEAk!!! Matis at Jan 1, 1971 at 11:02 PM EST |
| Maybe the guy is on his hospital bed because of heroin overdose.And he is having withdrawl symptoms(...Morphine,When are you coming round again?). He want all the pain he is in to go away by taking some morphene/heroin(Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams. ) And he wants to do heroin/morphene one last time before he dies(And that this shot will be my last.) | |
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Braxton Lead Player |
#2 by Braxton Overby at Sep 7, 1972 at 3:47 PM EST |
| How do you spell the sound effect when something goes right over someone's head? Yeeeeeeeeeeeooowwwn! | |
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Average |
#3 by |
| dde this song rules the drums can't come in at a better time. yeah and it does have a haunting echo to it but this songs a keeper on a cool album pertaining to chinese food! | |
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Venti Average |
#4 by Venti at Jan 28, 1976 at 4:16 PM EST |
| Marianne Faithful had something to do with the writing of this song though she was of course not credited. This is the only song from Sticky Fingers that I don't like. | |
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Steven Average |
#5 by Steven Daniel at Apr 14, 1980 at 3:29 AM EST |
| kfe2, morphine is one of the cheapest drugs out there and hospitals aren't afraid of wasting it... aside from that i like your interpretation. to add to it, I think it's about a heroin addict that gets into an accident and switches his addiction to morphine (they have very similar chemical structure and could be plausible) and the morphine takes him to a calm death. | |
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jordan Average |
#6 by jordan mcm at May 22, 1980 at 10:40 AM EST |
| Sorry, they wrote it for her...she covered it first but they wrote it for Marianne Faithful... | |
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Håvard Average |
#7 by Håvard Banne at Jan 12, 1989 at 4:52 PM EST |
| "(If you read between the lines, there's nothing there but white space, Silly)" White space clearly being a metaphor for cocaine. | |
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Dudey Average |
#8 by Dudey at Apr 18, 1993 at 8:22 AM EST |
| Well i have never done heroin, but a song like this makes you almost want to be adicted to the stuff. This song is hauntingly awesome. (also the Sticky fingers album is one of the best albums of all time, i n my humble opinion) | |
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Bye! Average |
#9 by Bye! at May 11, 1996 at 4:05 AM EST |
| If you read in between the lines you can infer some mild drug references | |
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Zach Wanna Be |
#10 by Zach Honeycutt at Aug 17, 1998 at 11:45 AM EST |
| thanks for the info silverprod, however i know that hospitals don't like to give it away easily as i work in one. | |
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$~Andrew~$ Average |
#11 by $~Andrew~$ at Nov 6, 2005 at 11:53 AM EST |
| hidden meaning? the damn song has morphine in its title. 'tell me, sister morphine, when are you coming round again?' 'oh sweet cousin cocaine, lay your cool cool hand on my head' hidden? | |
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