Tablature dressing up - The Cure

          



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  From: Winston Campbell <jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu>

  Subject: DRESSING UP by The Cure

  

  

  Dressing Up

  	(words & music by Robert Smith)

  

  I love this song, any time I hear it, I think of my friend Annita for some

  reason (I have only known her a couple months).  Anyway, I am transcribing 

  the -Paris- version of the song.  It really does not make that much of a

  difference since I have heard the original and it sounds exactly like 

  the -Paris- version.  I broke the song up into two riffs like these:

  

  

  Riff 1 (the tantalizing keyboard riff):

  

     Bm             C       D              E5  Em

  

  E --------2-3-2----------|------2-3-2-------|--------------|--------------|

  B ----0-3-------3-0-0-0--|--0-3-------3-0---|--------------|--------------|

  G -----------------------|------------------|--------------|--------------|

  D -----------------------|------------------|---2---0--2---|-5--2--0--2---|

  A -2---------------------|------------------|--------------|------------2-|

  E -----------------------|------------------|-0------------|--------------|

  

  

  Riff 2 (The spine-tingling duo notes):

  

     C                 Bm          C                 Bm

  

  E ---3---2--3---5---|-2--------|---3---2--3---5---|-2--------|

  B ---5---3--5---7---|-3--------|---5---3--5---7---|-3--------|

  G ------------------|----------|------------------|----------|

  D ------------------|----------|------------------|----------|

  A ------------------|----------|------------------|----------|

  E ------------------|----------|------------------|----------|

  

  

  Those are basically the riffs with the chords on top.  The lyrics are:

  

  

  {Riff 1}

  Going under slowly

  It never seems too late

  Going under slow

  

  {Riff 2}

  Dressing up to kiss

  Dressing up to touch your lips

  

  {Riff 1}

  (Dressing up, dressing up)

  (Dressing up, dressing up)

  I~m dressing up to dance all week

  I~m dressing up to be all this

  

  {Riff 2}

  Dressing up to kiss

  Dressing up to be all this

  

  Bb               A

  I could eat your face

  Bb      A       (Riff 1)

  I could eat all of you

  Oh this night will never let me go...

  

  Bb              A

  Going under slowly

  Bb              A

  Never seems too late

  Bb              A

  Going under slowly

  G         F              Em

  There you pick me up again...

  

  

  I usually play the chords like this:

  

      E A D G B E

      -----------

  Bm  x 2 4 4 3 2

  C   x 3 5 5 5 x

  D   x 5 7 7 7 x

  E5  x 7 9 9 x x

  Em  0 2 2 0 0 0

  Bb  6 8 8 7 x x

  A   5 7 7 6 x x

  G   3 2 0 0 3 3

  F   1 3 3 2 1 1

  

  

  (And that is all for now- Adios)

  

   


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