The Spider And The Fly Tab

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From augustin@telenet.net Mon May 12 13:31:13 1997
Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 23:44:06 -0400
From: Vance Augustine <augustin@telenet.net>
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: TAB: The Spider and the Fly by Rolling Stones
 
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I would like to submit a file to be posted to OLGA. This is my first
attempt to send something to OLGA. I hope I've got the procedure  right.
By the way, thanks for OLGA. It's been a godsend for me.
 
 
The Spider and the Fly by the Rolling Stones
from the album, ^?Stripped^?, 1996.
Words and music by M. Jagger and K. Richards(whoever they are)
transcribed and submitted by Vance Augustine
 
 
The song is pretty simple. It^?s your basic 3 chord blues. What really
makes the song is the
little walking riff they do with the guitars. On every E7 chord play it
like this
 
E--0---------0----------0------------0----------0----------0----------0-|
B--0---------0----------0------------0----------0----------0----------0-|
G--1---------2----------4------------2----------1----------2----------4-|
D--0---------0----------0------------0----------0----------0----------0-|
A--2---------4----------5------------4----------2----------4----------5-|
E--0---------0----------0------------0----------0----------0----------0-|
 
Hit each chord form on the beat, hold the last one for two beats
 
Then on the A7 drop down to this
 
E--0----------0----------0----------0----------0----------0----------0---|
B--2----------3----------5----------3----------2----------3----------5---|
G--0----------0----------0----------0----------0----------0----------0---|
D--2----------4----------5----------4----------2----------4----------5---|
A--0----------0----------0----------0----------0----------0----------0---|
E--x----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x---|
 
Put it all together and it goes like this:
 
(intro) E7 riff twice
 
E7   riff
Sittin^? thinkin^? sinkin^? drinkin^?
 
E7   riff
Wondering what I^?ll do when I^?m thru tonight
 
A7   riff
Smokin^? mopin^? maybe just hopin^?
 
E7    riff
Some little girl will pass on by
 
B7                               A7
I don^?t  wanna be alone     But I love my girl at home
 
E7   riff                               C7 B7
I remember what she said
 
 
E7   riff
She said, ^?My, my, my   don^?t tell lies!
 
E7   riff
Keep fidelity in your head!
 
A7   riff
My,  my,  my,  Don^?t tell lies
 
E7  riff
When you^?ve done your show hit the bed
 
B7                                 A7
Don^?t say  ^?Hi^?,   like a spider to a fly
 
E7   riff                                        C7 B7
Jump right ahead and your dead!
 
Sit up, fed up, low down, go round
Down to the bar at the place I^?m at
Sittin^?, drinkin^?,  superficially thinkin^?
about the rinsed out blonde on my left
and then I said ^?Hi^?, like a spider to a fly
Remembering what my little girl said
 
(harmonica solo)
 
she was spiffy, shifty
she looked about fifty
I would have run away but I was on my own
She told me later she was a machine operator
she said she liked the way I held the microphone
I said, ^?My, my, my,  like a spider to a fly
Jump right ahead in my web!^?
 
(guitar solo and end)
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