Year: 1981 - Album: Still Life (American Concert 1981)
Written by Michael Phillip Jagger/Keith Richards
Intro: C F C F C F G Bb C F CF C F G Bb Eb Bb Eb Bb C C F C F C F Bb 1. If you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop. C F C F C F Bb If you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop. C F C F C F I've been running hot, you got me rifting, Bb gonna blow my top, C F C F C F Bb if you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop. C F You make a grown man cry, C F Eb D C you make a grown man cry, C F Eb D C you make a grown man cry! C F/C C C F/C C Spread out the oil, the gasoline, C I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine. C F C F C F Bb C F C F C F Bb 2. Start it up, kick on the starter give it all you got, C F C F C F Bb I can't compete with the riders in the other seats. C F C F C F Bb If you rough it up, if you like it you can slide it up, slide it up C F Don't make a grown man cry, C F Eb D C don't make a grown man cry, C F Eb D C don't make a grown man cry ! C F/C C C F/C C My eyes dilate, my lips go green, C my hands are greasy, she's a mean, mean machine. C F C F C F Bb C F C F C F Bb 3. Start me up, AHHH give it all you got ! C F C F C F Bb Start it up, never, never slide it up ! C F You make a grown man cry, C F Eb D C you make a grown man cry, C F Eb D C you make a grown man cry ! C F/C C C F/C C Ride like the wind at double speed, C I'll take you places that you've never, never seen. C F C F C F Bb C F C F C F Bb 4. Start it up, love the day when we will never stop ! C F C F C F Bb Tough me up, t,t,t,t, never stop ! C F You, you, you make a grown man cry ! C F C F C F Bb You, you, you make a dead man come !! C F C F C F Bb You, you, you make a dead man come !