The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

      

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 | Artist: Rolling Stones |
 | Title: Sympathy for the Devil |
 | Album: various |
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 | Tabbed by Andrew Ker (adk@comlab.ox.ac.uk) |
 | A Member of the BTA Army - http://www.basstabarchive.com |
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 | You may distribute this as long as you include this header. |

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 Easy to play and fun. Since there's basically only two riffs playing all the
 way through, you have to add a few variations to spice it up. "Less is more"
 in this song, though.
 
 Enjoy.
 
 Note: On my recording, this song is quite flat (about halfway between being in
 Eb and E). I've written it out in E, but you might want to transpose.
 
 Introduction
 
 2x

 G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 A|7---------------|5---------------|----------------|7---------------|
 E|----------------|----------------|5---------------|----------------|
 

 
 Main riff
 
 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 
                 

 G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 A|7-7-7--7-7--7-7-|5-5-5--5-5--5-5-|4-4------4--5-6-|7-7-7--7-7--7-7-|
 E|------7----7-7--|------5----5-5--|----5-55--------|------7----7-7-7|
 

 
 Variation (mixed in with the main riff randomly)
 
 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 
                 

 G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 D|-------7-6--76--|-------5-4--54--|----------------|----------------|
 A|7-7-7-7----7--7-|5-5-5-5----5--5-|4-4-4-4--44-5-6-|7-7-7--7-7-75-6-|
 E|----------------|----------------|-------5--------|------7---------|
 

 
 "Pleased to meet you..."

 G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 A|7-7-7--7-7--7-7-|----------------|-----------4-567|7-7-7--7-7--7-7-|7-7-7--7-7------|
 E|------7----7-7--|7-7-7-77-7-7777-|7-77-7-7-7------|------7----7-7--|------7---4-5-6-|
 G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
 D|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------7-6--76--|
 A|----------------|-----------4-567|7-7-7--7-7--7-7-|7-7-7------7--7-|
 E|7-7-7-77-74-5-6-|7-77-7-7-7------|------7----7-7--|----------------|