Siouxsie and the Banshees – Christine (Guitar)

D Tuning (D-G-C-F-A-D) • Video Lesson
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Song: Christine Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees Composers: Siouxsie Siuox and Steve Severin Album: Kaleidoscope Tabbed by DJ 28h Oct 2022 To hear the song, copy and paste this link: The song will then sound in the key of D De-tune all strings two steps below standard tuning. Using a chromatic tuner makes this a bit easier. The song is played in E on guitar, but, with the full tone dropped tuning, the song will then sound in the key of D. Note the bottom D string will be quite slack and may need more frequent adjustment to stay in tune during repeated practising. I'm confident these are the chords the band plays, but in the 2nd and last lines of the Choruses they are quite dissonant and it takes quite a bit of confidence to sing the melody line across them. IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website displays, they are generated automatically from a generic database and often don't show the best options for a particular chord progression. Just use the voicings suggested in the text column numbers.
[Intro and Verses]        [Choruses]
Dmadd9/F = 1-0-3-2-3-0    E5      = 0-7-9-9-0-0
F5       = 1-3-3-x-x-x    Em7     = 0-10-12-12-0-0
E5 *     = 0-2-2-x-x-x    E6sus2  = 0-9-11-11-0-0
                          E6      = 0-4-6-6-0-0
                          E7sus4  = 0-5-7-7-0-0

[Bridge]                  [Final Break and Coda]
B5 = 7-9-9-x-x-x          Dmadd9/F = 1-0-3-2-3-0
E5 = 0-7-9-9-0-0          E5       = 0-7-9-9-0-0
                          EM7(no3) = 0-7-9-8-0-0
Please take a second to scroll down to the bottom of the page and select a star rating for my tab, thanks ===================================================== [Intro]
  Dmadd9/F
|  /  /  /  /  |

   F5                  E5 *
|  /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/  |  /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/  |

   F5                  E5 *
|  /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/  |  /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/  |

  Dmadd9/F     E5 *         Dmadd9/F     E5 *
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
[Verse 1]
    Dmadd9/F                     E5 *
She tries not to shatter, kale - idoscope style,

         Dmadd9/F           E5 *
Person - ality changes be - hind her red smile,

Dmadd9/F                   E5 *
Every new problem brings a stranger inside,

Dmadd9/F               E5 *
Helplessly forcing one more new disguise
[Chorus]
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,

        E6  E7sus4      E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine,   ...ba - nana split lady,

        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,

        E6  E7sus4         E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine   ...sees her faces un - furl
[Break]
     Dmadd9/F       E5 *
||:  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  :|| [x4]
[Verse 2]
Dmadd9/F              E5 *
Singing sweet savages lost in our world,

     Dmadd9/F               E5 *
This big eyed girl sees her faces unfurl,

Dmadd9/F             E5 *
Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle,

Dmadd9/F         E5 *
           Dis - integrating
[Chorus]
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,

        E6  E7sus4      E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine,   ...ba - nana split lady,

        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,

        E6  E7sus4         E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine   ...sees her faces un - furl
[Bridge]
   B5             E5
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

B5          E5    B5          E5    B5          E5
Oo---, oo - oo!   Oo---, oo - oo!   Oo---, oo - oo!

[Verse 3]
Dmadd9/F             E5 *
Oo---------------oo, oo!

Dmadd9/F             E5 *
Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle,

Dmadd9/F         E5 *
           Dis - integrating,

        Dmadd9/F   E5 *          Dmadd9/F   E5 *
Chris - tine,            Chris - tine

   Dmadd9/F       E5 *
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |
[Chorus]
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,

        E6  E7sus4      E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine,   ...ba - nana split lady,

        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,

        E6  E7sus4         E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine   ...sees her faces un - furl
[Break]
    Dmadd9/F       E5    EM7(no3)
||: /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /   :|| [x4]
[Coda]
      Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Chris-tine,               Chris-tine,

      Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Chris-tine,               Chris-tine,

Dmadd9/F        E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Twenty two faces------------------------------------,

     Dmadd9/F   E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Dis- integrating------------------------------------!

      Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Chris-tine,               Chris-tine,

     Dmadd9/F   E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Dis- integrating------------------------------------!

    Dmadd9/F       E5    EM7(no3)         Dmadd9/F
||: /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  :|| [x2]
===================================================== SONG FACTS The song is inspired by a book about a woman named Chris Costner Sizemore who was diagnosed with D.I.D. after she witnessed two deaths and a horrible accident within three months of each other. Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously called Multiple Personality Disorder) is when a traumatic event, usually experienced as a child, causes someone to develop individual personas (or 'alters') to deal with different situations in life. There was a movie, 'The Three Faces of Eve', released in 1957, which was based on her experiences, but was exaggerated for dramatic effect. This song was inspired by Christine's struggle with the production of the movie which had misrepresented her, how she felt she had been exploited and her rights violated.