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"Ooohhh Baby"
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album _Coney Island Baby_
(Lou Reed, 1976)
written by Lou Reed
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You're the kind of girl
that everybody's wondering about
You're the kind of person
that everybody's a-staring at
But now you're a topless dancer
working out of a bar on Times Spuare
And everybody wishes you were back
in the massage parlor back there on 9th Avenue
(three-eleven) you make me go
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby
ooohhh ooohhh ooohhh
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby
ooohhh ooohhh ooohhh
Your old man was the best B and E man
down on the streets
And all the guy on the precinct
always was watching for him on their beat
But when he ripped off Seymour
he was really not a doing so fine
And everything is not swelled except his hands and legs
and maybe even mime
he's feeling maybe it's good that they said
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh
ooohhh baby, ooohhh
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh
hey baby, ooohhh ooohhh ooohhh
It's very funny asking me
why they keep the lights on down so low
Well yesterday's trade's today's competition
or didn't you know
And all florescent lighting makes it so your wrinkles
they don't show
And it's very funny the way your
twenty bucks an hour can a go
if you don't make me go now now now
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh
ooohhh baby, ooohhh
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby
ooohhh ooohhh ooohhh
Everybody wondered 'bout you when you were seen
in drinking some beer
You got here from Ohio and your mother said
you'd hook her and be real near
that's the way it goes now
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby
ooohhh ooohhh ooohhh
hey shake your buns now, mama
Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ah
hey ooohhh baby, ooohhh
walk it now
(Ooohhh baby ooohhh, ooohhh baby ooohhh) Get down
(ooohhh baby ooohhh, ooohhh baby ooohhh)
(Ooohhh baby ooohhh, ooohhh baby ooohhh)
(ooohhh baby ooohhh, ooohhh baby ooohhh)
(Ooohhh baby ooohhh, ooohhh baby ooohhh)
(ooohhh baby ooohhh, ooohhh baby ooohhh)
(Ooohhh baby ooohhh, ooohhh baby ooohhh)
(ooohhh baby ooohhh, ooohhh baby ooohhh)
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intro {E}{A}{E}{E}
{E}{A}{E}{E}
{E}{A}{E}{E} (You're the kind of girl ...)
{E}{A}{E}{E} (You're the kind of person ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (But now you're a topless dancer ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (And everybody wishes you were back ...)
chorus {E}{A}{E}{E} (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ...)
{E}{A}{E}{E} (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (Your old man was the best B and E man ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (And all the guy on the precinct ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (But when he ripped off Seymour ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (And everything is not swelled except ...)
chorus {E}{A}{E}{E} (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh ...)
{E}{A}{E}{E} (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh ...)
g.solo {A}{A}{E}{E}
{A}{A}{E}{E}
{A}{A}{E}{E} (It's very funny asking me ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (Well yesterday's trade's today's ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (And all florescent lighting makes it so ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (And it's very funny the way your ...)
chorus {E}{A}{E}{E} (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh ...)
{E}{A}{E}{E} (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (Everybody wondered 'bout you when you ...)
{A}{A}{E}{E} (You got here from Ohio and your mother ...)
chorus {E}{A}{E}{E} (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby ...)
{E}{A}{E}{E} (Ooohhh baby, ooohhh baby, ah ...)
coda {A}{A}{E}{E} (Get down)
{A}{A}{E}{E} background vocals
{A}{A}{E}{E} background vocals
{A}{A}{E}{E} background vocals
{A}{A}{E}{E} background vocals
... fade out
* riff
{E} {A}
1e --x-12-x-x-12-\----x-5-x-x-5-----
2B --x-12-x-x-12-\----x-5-x-x-5-----
3G ---------------------------------
4D ---------------------------------
5A ---------------------------------
6E ---------------------------------
{E} {E}
--x-12-x-x-12-----------12-------------------
--x-12-x-x-12-----------12-x-x-12------------
---------------14-12h13------------14-12h13--
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* slide guitar (open E tuning)
tuning
1e -----
2B -----
3G# ----- * uptuned a half-tone (from G to G#)
4E ----- * uptuned a whole-tone (from D to E)
5B ----- * uptuned a whole-tone (from A to B)
6E -----
ex.1 (intro: open E tuning)
{E} {A} {E} {E}
*1e -------------------------------------------------------------
*2B ----------------------------------------11/12--11/12-\10-----
*3G# ----------------------------------------11/12--11/12-\10-----
*4E --------------------------------------------------------/12--
*5B -------------------------------------------------------------
*6E -------------------------------------------------------------
{E} {A} {E} {E}
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--11/12v--------14v--\--12\10----12v-----------/12--------------
--11/12v----------------12\10----12v---------------11-/12-------
-----------------------------/12---------------------------12---
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ex.2 (chorus: open E tuning)
- ooohhh-ooohhh-ooohhh
... {E} {E}
*1e -----------------------------------------------------------
*2B ----------------------/12-/12-/12v--\----/12-/12-/12v--\---
*3G# ----------------------/12-/12-/12v--\----/12-/12-/12v--\---
*4E ----------------------/12-/12-/12v--\----/12-/12-/12v--\---
*5B -----------------------------------------------------------
*6E -----------------------------------------------------------
ex.3 (open E tuning)
- watching for him on their beat
... {E} {E}
*1e ------------------/19-15/16----------17/19--19-15/16--------
*2B ----------------------------/17\---------------------/17\---
*3G# ------------------------------------------------------------
*4E ------------------------------------------------------------
*5B ------------------------------------------------------------
*6E ------------------------------------------------------------
ex.4 (solo: open E tuning)
{A} {A}
*1e --------------------------------12--\---
*2B --14\12-10-14--10---10-14\12-10---------
*3G# ----------------------------------------
*4E ----------------------------------------
*5B ----------------------------------------
*6E ----------------------------------------
{E} {E}
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--/12--12----------------------------------
----------11/12---------10/11-10/11v-------
----------------12v------------------12v---
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{A} {A}
----------------------------------12--\---
--14\12-10-14--10-\---10-14\12-10---------
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It's very funny ...
{E} {E} {A}
--19--19-15/16-------19--19-15/16----------12v-\----
---------------17v----------------17\15\12----------
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ex.5 (coda: open E tuning)
{A} {A}
*1e --------------------------------12--\---
*2B --14\12-10-14--10---10-14\12-10---------
*3G# ----------------------------------------
*4E ----------------------------------------
*5B ----------------------------------------
*6E ----------------------------------------
{E} {E}
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--/12--12--------------/12--12-------------
----------11/12----------------11/12-------
----------------12v------------------12v---
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{A} {A}
----------------------------------12--\---
--14\12-10-14--10-\---10-14\12-10---------
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{E} {E}
-------12-------------------12-------------
--/12------------------/12-----------------
----------11/12----------------11/12------- ... fade out
----------------12v------------------12v---
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*** please note ***
h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend string up
r - release bend
/ - slide up
\ - slide down
v - vibrato
^ - harmonics
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thanks: Kirill Rodionov (thaumaturge@chat.ru)
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"Ooohhh Baby"
You're the kind of girl everybody's warned me about
You're the kind of person, that everybody's here staring at
....
.....
ooohhh, ooohhh, ooohhh, hey shake your bones mama
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transcribed by Shiroh KOUCHI (wildside@mx21.tiki.ne.jp)
http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/
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