The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden

      
 
 To: jamesb@nevada.edu
 Subject: Rolling Stones - Beast Of Burden
 
 Subject: HELP w/ Beast of Burden (stones)
 
 Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
 
 I've never seen this posted - nor have I seen it in ftp.nevada...
 
 Too make a story short, I want to play this tune in my "band" and I would
 
 like some opinions on how other people might play it... anyway here's what
 
 I have now:
 
 Beast Of Burden The Rolling Stones

 ---2-/-4--4------7---4----------5
 ---3-/-5--5------7---5----------5
 ---2-/-4--4------8---6----------6
 -----------------9-------5-/-7---
 

 
 That's the most important part of the song - the chorus is just standard
 
 straight up chords (I think) but I can't remember them at the moment.
 
 What I need help on is that the above doesn't sound thick enough - a bit too
 
 plain. Anyone play it differently?
 
 Also, as a method for playing in a band with one guitarist, would you just
 
 keep playing the riff over and over instead of soloing off in the song -
 
 since I can't do both at the same time, and since I am not that good, I'd
 
 think to play what the audience knows best: the above riff.
 
 Comments and suggestions are very welcome.
 
 Scott
 
 -- 
  
 Life is easy when you're being kept afloat... Scott A. Rasche
 
 ...so I won't rock no boats. "Shorts"
 
 XTC University of Rochester
 
 >From: pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan)
 
 Subject: Re: HELP w/ Beast of Burden (stones)
 
 Shorts (scrs_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu) wrote:
 
 >I've never seen this posted - nor have I seen it in ftp.nevada...
 
 >Too make a story short, I want to play this tune in my "band" and I would
 
 >like some opinions on how other people might play it... anyway here's what
 
 >I have now:
 
 >Beast Of Burden The Rolling Stones

 >---2-/-4--4------7---4----------5
 >---3-/-5--5------7---5----------5
 >---2-/-4--4------8---6----------6
 >-----------------9-------5-/-7---
 

 
 I play it like this:
 
 A D G 
    

 -------------------------------------
 ---5_7--7--5--7-5-3------------------
 ---6_7--7--6--7-6-4------------------
 ---7_7--7--7--7-7-5------------------
 -------------------------------------
 -------------------------------------
 

 
 pat
 
 -- 
  
 "Now about those pictures..."
 
 "I can explain! I was young! I needed the money!.."
 
 patrick m. ryan
 
 nasa / goddard space flight center / oceans and ice branch / hughes stx
 
 pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov / patrick.m.ryan@gsfc.nasa.gov
 
 >Subject: CRD: Stones ---- Beast Of Burden
 
 From: SELD1020@HASARA11.SARA.NL ( Hans van der Hof )
 
 Enjoy,
 
 Hans 
  
 The Rolling Stones
 
 Beast Of Burden
 
 E B/D# C#m A 
     
 I'll never be your beast of burden
 
 E B/D# C#m A 
     
 My back is broad but it's a hurting
 
 E B/D# C#m A 
     
 All I want is for you to make love to me
 
 E B/D# C#m A 
     
 I'll never be your beast of burden
 
 E B/D# C#m A 
     
 I've walked for miles, my feet are hurting
 
 E B/D# C#m A B/D# C#m 
     
 All I want is for you to make love to me
 
 A E/G# A 
   
 Am I hard enough Am I rough enough Am I rich enough
 
 E/G# A B 
    
 I'm not too blind to see
 
 E B/D# C#m A 
     
 I'll never be your beast of burden
 
 E B/D# C#m A 
     
 So let's go home and draw the curtains
 
 E E/D# 
   
 Music on the radio
 
 C#m A E B/D# C#m 
   
 Come on baby, make sweet love to me
 
 A E/G# A 
   
 Am I hard enough Am I rough enough Am I rich enough
 
 E/G# A B E 
    
 I'm not too blind to see...oh little sister
 
 E/D# C#m A 
    
 Pretty, pretty, pretty girl
 
 E B/D# C#m | A | E B/D# C#m | C#m A | E B/D# C#m |
 
 A E A 
   
 You're such a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty girl
 
 E A 
   
 Pretty, pretty such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl
 
 E A 
   
 Come on, baby please, please, please
 
 A E 
   
 I'll tell ya
 
 B/D# C#m A 
    
 You can put me out on the street
 
 E A 
   
 Put me out with no shoes on my feet
 
 E B/D# C#m A E B/D# C#m 
    
 But put me out, put me out, put me out... out of misery
 
 E B/D# C# A 
     
 All your sickness I can suck it up
 
 E E/D# 
   
 Throw it all at me
 
 C#m A 
   
 I can shrug it off
 
 E B/D# C#m A 
    
 There's one thing, baby, I don't understand
 
 E E/G# A 
    
 You keep telling me I ain't your kind of man
 
 E 
  
 Ain't I rough enough
 
 A E B/D# C#m 
     
 Ain't I tough enough
 
 A E 
   
 Ain't I rich enough
 
 B/D# C#m 
   
 In love enough
 
 A E B/D# C#m 
     
 Ooh Ooh please
 
 
 repeat first verse
 
 end:
 
 I don't need no beast of burden
 
 I need no fussing, I need no nursing
 
 Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be...

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 I've made the chord diagrams using Andrew Gryc's very handy
 
 program Chord Magic.
 
 capo fret 4:
 
 E B/D# C#m A E/G# E/D# A/B 
     

 E-0---------3---------0---------1---------0---------0---------1---------
 B-1---------0---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------
 G-0---------0---------2---------2---------0---------0---------2---------
 D-2---------0---------2---------3---------2---------2---------3---------
 A-3---------2---------0---------3---------3---------2---------3---------
 E-0-----------------------------1---------0-------------------3---------