The Rolling Stones

Start Me Up

The Rolling Stones

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Start Me Up

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. 

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    You make a grown man cry,         
 C                             F    Eb   D   C 
you make a grown man cry, 
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    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, 
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 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 ! 


		  

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