Lola Chords

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Difficulty:	intermediate
Tuning:	E A D G B E
Capo:	no capo

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Asus4

C#m

G#m

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[Intro]
C     D     E
Here's approximately how the picking goes:
     C                  D      E
e|---0----0----0-0-0-0--2-2----0---0----0----0-----0---------|
B|---1----1----1-1-1-1--3-3----0-----0----0----0--------0----|
G|---0----0----0-0-0-0--2-2----1-------1----1----1----1---1--|
D|---2----2----2-2-2-2--0-0----2-----------------------------|
A|---3----3----3-3-3-3---------2-----------------------------|
E|-----------------------------0-----------------------------|
 
(Picking freely…)
  E
I met her in a club down in old Soho
          A                      D                     E
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like coca cola
         A     Asus4     A
C-O-L-A, cola
    E
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
  A                             D                         E
I asked her - her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
         A     D             C      C   D   E
L-O-L-A, Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
 
 
[Fill 1]
 
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----9-9-9--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----9-9-9---11-p-9----------------------------------9--------9---------|
D|-----9-9-9----------11-11-p-9----9-------------------9--------9---------|
A|--7---------------------------11---7-/-11-----9-h-11---9-h-11----9-h-11-|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
 
     E
Well I'm not the world’s most physical guy
             A                            D                     E
but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine, oh my Lola
            A    Asus4  A
Lo lo lo lo Lola
     E
Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
        A                       D                       E
why she walked like a woman and talked like a man oh my Lola
            A     D             C      C   D   E
Lo lo lo lo Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
 
 
[Fill 1]
 
 
[Chorus]
        B
Well we drank champagne and danced all night
F#
Under electric candlelight
    A
She picked me up and sat me on her knee
 
And said 'Dear boy, won't you come home with me'
     E
Well I'm not the world's most passionate guy
           A                         D                  E
but when I looked in her eye, well I almost fell for my Lola
            A     D             C     C   D   E
Lo lo lo lo Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
            A     D             C     C   D   E
Lo lo lo lo Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
 
 
[Fill 1]
 
 
[Bridge]
  A      C#m B
I pushed her away
  A      C#m    B
I walked to the door
   A   C#m    B
I fell to the floor
      E    G#m   C#m
I got down on my knees
     B
Then I looked at her and she at me
(Picking freely… like verse 1)
 
 
     E
Well that's the way that I want it to stay
      A                 D                  E
and I always want it to be that way for my Lola
            A    Asus4  A
Lo lo lo lo Lola
E
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
       A                     D                         E
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola
            A
Lo lo lo lo Lola
 
 
[Chorus]
     B
Well I left home just a week before
    F#
And I'd never ever kissed a woman before
A
Lola smiled and took me by the hand
 
and said 'dear boy, I'm gonna make you a man'
 
 
     E
Well I'm not the worlds most passionate man
      A                      D                        E
but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola,
            A     D             C     C   D   E
Lo lo lo lo Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
 
 
[Outro]
            A     D             C     C   D   E
Lo lo lo lo Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
            A     D             C     C   D   E
Lo lo lo lo Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
            A     D             C     C   D   E
Lo lo lo lo Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
            A     D             C     C   D   E
Lo lo lo lo Lola,   Lo lo lo lo Lola
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Lola – The Kinks

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must be cherry cola; not coca cola :)

Ray Davies: "I remember going into a music store on Shaftesbury Avenue in London when we were about to make 'Lola'. I said, 'I want to get a really good guitar sound on this record. I want a Martin.' And in the corner they had this old 1938 Dobro resonator guitar, in this case a National Steel, that I bought for $150. I put them together on 'Lola', which is what makes that clangy sound: the combination of the Martin and the Dobro with heavy compression." The National Steel would play an integral part in many Kinks projects after that. In the 1972 song "Supersonic Rocket Ship", Ray Davies would use the guitar to create a Caribbean feel for the record.

This is one of the more accurate song posts I have found on 'Ultimate'....Personally I play 'fill 1' slightly differently than what was posted here but this probably works too.... Frankly I wish that 90% of songs posted here were as close as this one seems to be. Good JOB!