Iggy Pop – Gardenia (Guitar)

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STRUMMING PATTERN NOTES * Play fast up and down 16th notes during the intro and chorus * Upstrokes on the 2 and 4 beats during the verse [MAIN RIFF] Repeats just before the choruses and at the end of every fourth bar in the chorus
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[Verse 1]
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Gardenia

E
Where are you?

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Black goddess in a shabby raincoat

E
Where are you tonight?

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Cheap purple baby-doll dress

E
A gardenia in your hair

F#
Much taller and stronger than me

E
A forbidden dream, a dream, a dream
[Chorus]
F#                     E
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight

F#                     E
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[Verse 2]
F#
Gardenia

E
Where are you, tonight?

F#
The streets were your home

E
Now where do you roam?

F#
Your hourglass ass

E
And your powerful back

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Your slant devil eyes

E
And the ditch on your spine
Deep ass, deep ass [Chorus]
F#                     E
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight

F#                     E
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[Bridge]
D
We lay in the darkness

F#                  E
Then she turned the lights on

D
I saw a dangerous habit

F#                  E
When she turned the lights on

D
There's always a catch in the darkness when you

F#                G#
When you turn the lights on

D
There's always a catch Oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well
[Chorus]
F#                     E
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight

F#                     E
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[Verse 3]
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Alone in the cheapo motel

E
By the highway to hell

F#
America's greatest living poet was ogling you all

E
Night, You should be wearing the finest gown

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But here you are now -- Gas, food, lodging,

E
poverty, misery --and gardenia

F#
You could be burned at the stake

E
For all your mistakes, mistakes, mistakes
[Chorus]
F#                     E
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight

F#                     E
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight