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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 93 13:39:43-030
From: andres%darwin.cesup.UFRGS.BR@UICVM.UIC.EDU (Andre Schwantes)
Start Me Up ( Jagger/Richards )
Rolling Stones
Riff:
B|---5---6-6-|--5---6-6--|---5-6-5---|
G|---5---5-5-|--5---5-5--|---5-5-5---|
D|---5---7-7-|--5---7-7--|---5-7-5---|
repeat with the rhythm:
D|--3--5--3-------|
A|--1--1--1-------|
{chorus}
[C] [F] [Eb] [C]
[C]
______________________________________________________________
If you start me up, start me up
I'll never stop
I feel running hot
You got me reaped
You gotta go watch out
You make a grown man cry
Start up a fire with the gasoline
I wont soothe whatever fllame, flame, shame
Start me up
If you start me up
Gonna start until it's all you got
I can't complete
With the honesty a lover keeps
If you roughet it up
If you locked me up
If you start me up
Ride up the wind at double speed
I'll take you to place that you'll never say
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Excuse me any mistake, it's from memory.
#Andre Schwantes andres@vortex.ufrgs.br
Porto Alegre
Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:54:59 +1000 (EST)
From: Michael Vriesekolk
Subject: Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones
My first post to this site, so I hope it looks ok :)
As with a lot of Rolling Stones songs, Keith Richards tunes his guitar to
an 'open G' (low to high: D,G,D,G,B,D) tuning. The 6th (lowest) string is
removed when playing this song. Another more or less trademark of
Richards.
Intro: P M M
D----|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B--5-|:-6-6---------5-|--6-6-5-5-5-6---|----------------|--------3-3-3-5:|
G--5-|--5-5---------5-|--5-5-5-5-5-5-0-|3---3---3---3-3-|----3---3-3-3-5-|
D--5-|:-7-7---------5-|--7-7-5-5-5-7-0-|3---5---3---5-3-|--3-5-3-3-3-3-5:|
G--5-|--------------5-|--5-5-5-5-5-5-0-|3---3---3-3---3-|--3-3-3-------5-|
That repeats a few times up until the Chorus. Here is the Chorus
Chorus:
*
D-5-|----------------|--------------------------------|----------------|
B-5-|----5---5-------|--10----10--10--10--------------|----5---5-------|
G-5-|----5---5-7-7/10|--10----10--10--10--8---7---5---|----5---5-7-7/10|
D-5-|----5---5-7-7/10|--10----10--10--10--8---7---5---|----5---5-7-7/10|
G-5-|----5---5-7-7/10|--10----10--10--10--8---7---5---|----5---5-7-7/10|
D |--------------------------------|
B |10------10--10--10--------------|
G |10------10--10--10--8---7---5---|
D |10------10--10--10--8---7---5---|
G |10------10--10--10--8---7---5---|
* = This chord is not really played. You already played it (the last chord
in the intro) The chord is just carried into the chorus.
Note that I have also not tabbed in the lowest string.
P = pull-off.
M = muted note.
/ = slide up.
: = repeat.
Any probs, feel free to mail me.
Have fun :)
Mike.
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eric was here Professional Badass |
#1 by eric was here at May 14, 1970 at 8:25 PM EST |
| Man, I feel stupid....I thought this song was about getting high. I was wayyy off. | |
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edwin Wanna Be |
#2 by edwin henrriquez at Jan 9, 1973 at 6:00 AM EST |
| This song is kick ass. But really what I think this song is about is a woman who leads a guy on and...doesnt follow through. And on top of never putting out for a guy she is so hot she can make a dead man CUM(or ejaculate(sp?)). | |
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Joey Wanna Be |
#3 by Joey at Apr 10, 1974 at 3:22 AM EST |
| You're all idiots. Just because it has the word "come" and the phrase "start me up" you instantly think its about sex. Get a life, it's about cars. Goddammit you dont have to read into it. | |
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jordan Porreca Lead Player |
#4 by jordan Porreca porreca at Aug 9, 1986 at 7:38 AM EST |
| Not "dead man cum", it should be "dead man come". Jeez. | |
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Dylan Average |
#5 by Dylan Donovan at Apr 15, 1987 at 9:37 AM EST |
| correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this song is about sex. i mean c'mon "if you star me up i'll never stop" [when you turn me on, i'll go on all night long?] "slide it up, slide it up" [hmmm]. "my hands are greasy..." [hmmm again]. "ride like the wind, at double speed, i'll take u places that you've never ever seen.." and of course "you make a grown man cry, you make a dead man cum.." lol. overall though. terrific song. definitely gets ya goin. you'll never stop, hah. | |
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adam Average |
#6 by adam humphreys at May 31, 1988 at 10:36 PM EST |
| This song has a running, sex-and-car, metaphor very similar to a poem called "She Being Brand New", coincidentally enough, by a poet named E.E. CUMmings. | |
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dan Average |
#7 by dan evans at Jan 16, 1992 at 1:07 PM EST |
| I could care less about finding what this song means, since its had me stumped since the minute I heard it. Great song. | |
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Max Wanna Be |
#8 by Max Contreras at Mar 21, 1998 at 8:14 AM EST |
| well I thought it was about getting angry..."you make a grown man cry".. All those times dancing in the lounge room with parents to this song wil never be the same.. Cars? Who would think? | |
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Mauricio Wanna Be |
#9 by Mauricio Tonon at Nov 6, 1998 at 11:47 PM EST |
| I think this song is about the beginning of pro wrestling matches | |
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Charlie Average |
#10 by Charlie Fletcher at Sep 5, 2002 at 4:48 PM EST |
| one of my least favorate Stone songs. It offers very little.....the line dead man cum took some courage but pretty straight forward. | |
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dylan Average |
#11 by dylan pesino at Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34 PM EST |
| Ya, about having sex. And the car is just a nice metaphor | |