Chord/Tab song: Shake Dog Shake

"SHAKE DOG SHAKE" THE CURE


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Words: Robert Smith
Music: The Cure
Album: The Top
Year: 1985
Tabber: graph_sas@hotmail.com

A very powerful song!
Thanks and Enjoy it!

Ha ha ha

Intro: C (x3)

Riff 1: C, Bb

[C]Wake up in the dark[Bb]
C Bb C Bb, C, Bb, C
The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth
[C]Spit it on the wa[Bb]ll
[C]And cough some m[Bb]ore
C Bb C, Bb
And scrape my skin with razor blades

And [D#]make up in the new blood
And [D]try to look so g[A#m]ood
C Bb, C, Bb
Follow me
[D#]Make up in the new blood
D A#m C, Bb, C
And follow me to where the real fun is

[C]Ha ha ha[Bb]
A[C]s stale and s[Bb]elfish as a s[C]ick dog
[Bb]Spurning s[C]ex like an a[Bb]nimal of god[C][Bb]
[C]I'll tear your red hair [Bb]by the r[C]oots
And hold you blazing[Bb]
C Bb C, Bb
Hold you cherished in the dead electric light
Your f[D#]ace
D A#m C Bb, C, Bb
I'll never see you this way a---gain
I [D#]captured it so perfectly
D A#m C, Bb, C, Bb
As if I knew you'd disappear away

[D#]Shake shake shake shake
[D]Shake shake shake shake
[A#m]Shake dog s[C]hake[Bb][C]

[D#]Shake shake shake shake
[D]Shake shake shake shake
[A#m]Shake dog s[C]hake[Bb][C]

You [Bb]hit me again
You [C]howl and hit me [Bb]again
The same sharp p[C]ain
[Bb]Wakes me in the dark
And c[C]uts me from my throat to my [Bb]pounding heart
My h[D#]eart
My [D]shaking heart
My howl my s[C]hake dog

Repeat Riff 1: C, Bb through ?shake? shake dog shake?

Oh shake dog shake
Shake shake
Shake dog shake

But we [D#]slept all night in the v[D]irgin's [A#m]bed
And dreamed of d[C]eath
And breathed like sick d[Bb]ogs[C]
We s[D#]lept all night in the v[D]irgin's [A#m]bed
And breathed like d[C]eath
And dreamed of sick [Bb]dogs[C]

[C]Shake shake[A][A#m]
C Bb, C
Shake dog shake

[G]Wake up wake [A#m]up wake u[A]p
C Bb, C, Bb
Shake dog shake
[G]Wake up wake [A#m]up wake up[A]
C Bb, C, Bb
Shake dog shake

[C]Wake up in [Bb]the new [C]blood[Bb]
[C]Make up in [Bb]the new b[C]lood[Bb]
[C]Shake up in[Bb] the new [C]blood[Bb]
And [C]follow me to w[Bb]here the real fun [C]is

Bb C Bb, C
Shake dog shake
Bb C Bb, C
Shake dog shake
S[Bb]hake dog sh[C]ake