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Song

Title: Dirty Water

Band: The Jesus & Mary Chain

Album: Stoned & Dethroned (1994)

tabbed by scef (email: funnell_teen_spirit@yahoo.com)

quite simple really, pretty much the whole song is

this 2 chord progression:

E 022100

Amaj7 x02120

E / / / | Amaj7 / / / |

solo

e-----------|-------------------|--------------------|
B-----------|-/9---7---7-/9~~-7-|--------------------|
G------9-11-|--------9----------|---9~~---------9-11-|
D-9h11------|-------------------|----------9h11------|
A-----------|-------------------|--------------------|
E-----------|-------------------|--------------------|
e-------------------|---------------------|----------|
B-/9---7---7-/9~~---|---------------------|-9--------|
G--------9--------9-|----------------9-11-|-9--------|
D-------------------|-----------9h11------|-9--------|
A-------------------|---------------------|----------|
E-------------------|---------------------|----------|

there's this little guitar 'lick' between each line of

the following chorus:

e-------------|--------|
B-------------|--------|
G-11b13b11----|-9------|
D----------11-|--------|
A-------------|--------|
E-------------|--------|

after that chorus jim does a bit of slide guitar,

which I think is just something like this:

e-----------------|-------------------|------|
B-9-----------9sss|s14-----------14sss|s9----|
G-9-----------9sss|s14-----------14sss|s9----|
D-9-----------9sss|s14-----------14sss|s9----|
A-----------------|-------------------|------|
E-----------------|-------------------|------|

you get the idea. the 's's represent the sliding if

you hadn't guessed...

at some point there's (shock) a chord change, where

that little guitar bit goes: (the chords played are

over the top)

A x02220

A Amaj7 A Amaj7

e------------------|------------------|
B-10-------9-------|-10-------9-------|
G------------------|------------------|
D------------------|------------------|
A------------------|------------------|
E------------------|------------------|

A Amaj7 A

e------------------|------------------|
B-10-------9-------|-10---------------|
G------------------|------------------|
D------------------|------------------|
A------------------|------------------|
E------------------|------------------|

then back to the original chord progression, then

that's it, enjoy

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