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The Rolling Stones
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That's the most important part of the song - the chorus is just standard
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Another version:
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Beast Of Burden
The Rolling Stones
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I play it like this:
A D G
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Another version
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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
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/r/rolling_stones/beast_of_burden_tab.html )
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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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---------

Source: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/r/rolling_stones/beast_of_burden_tab.html

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