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
X O X X O O
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| | 2 3 | | | | | 2 | |
+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+--+--+
| | | | | 4 | | | | 3 |
+--+--+--+--+--+ +--+--+--+--+--+
Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?
*[fill 1]
Oh, and I don't think I can wait that long
Oh you see I'm not that strong
The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears
*[fill 2]
Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can crawl across the floor
Can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score.
Well it just goes to show things are not what they seem-
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams.
Oh can't you see I'm fading fast?
And the big shot will be my last.
Sweet cousin cocaine, lay your cool cool hands on my head
Oh c'mon Sister Morphine, better make up my bed
Cos you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead
You can sit around and watch all the clean white sheets stained red.
Fill 1
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Oh you see That I'm not that...
Fill 2
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Morphine How long have I been lying...
l+p
black rick
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