Babylon Sisters

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BABYLON SISTERS
Transcription and chart
Peter Kruger
casparus60@yahoo.com
[Intro]
Gb5 B Ab7 E Abm7 Ebm7Ebs4Ebm7Ebs4
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Gb5 B Ab7 B EF#/E A7-5Ebm7Ebs4Ebm7Ebs4
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
EF#/E A7-5Ebm7Ebs4Ebm7Ebs4Ebsus4Bb7sus4
| | | | |
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
--2/4---
[Verse 1]
Bb7sus4 Cm7 Eb13
Drive west on sunset to the sea
Dbmaj9
Turn that jungle music down
Ab13 Gbmaj13 Bbm7
Just until we're out of town
Cm7 Dm11
This is no one night stand
Bbm7
It's a real oc casion
Cm7
Close your eyes and you'll be there
Eb/F Bbmaj7
It's everything they say
E7-5 Ebmaj13
The end of a perfect day
A7+5+9 Dm7
Distant lights from across the bay
[Chorus]
Eb F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
Dm7 Eb F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
C9 F13
So fine so young
Bbmaj7 Bbm7 Eb9
Tell me I'm the only one
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Dm7 C9 EbF/Eb B/EGb/EDb/GbAb/GbBb7-9
| | |
* * * * * * * *
Ebm7 Db6
Here come those Santa Ana winds
Bmaj7B7 E6/9A13-5
| |
* * * *
a gain ba-a-d ne-e-ews
Ebm7 Ebm9 Ebm7 Ebm7-5Ebmmaj7Ebm7-5Ebsus4Bb7sus4
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * >
We'll jog with
[Verse 2]
Cm7 Eb13
show folk on the sand
Dbmaj9
Drink kirschwasser from a shell
Ab13 Gbmaj13 Bbm7
San Francisco show and tell
Cm7 Dm11
Well I should know by now
Bbm7 Eb/Bb
That it's just a spasm
Fm/Bb Cm7
Like a Sunday in T.J.
Eb/F Bbmaj9
That it's cheap but it's not free
E7-5 Ebmaj7
That I'm not what I used to be
A7+5+9 Dm
And that love's not a game for three
[Chorus]
Dm7 Eb F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
Dm7 Eb F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
C9 F13
So fine so young
Bbmaj7 Bbm7 Eb9
Tell me I'm the only one
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Dm7 C9 EbF/Eb B/EGb/E Db/GbAb/GbBb7-9
| | |
* * * * * * * *
Ebm7 Db6
Here come those Santa Ana winds
Bmaj7B7 E6/9A13-5
| |
* * * *
a gain
Bbm7Cm7 Eb13 Dbmaj9Ab13Gbmaj9 Bbm7
| | | | | |
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-- My friends say
[Verse 3]
Cm7 Dm11
no don't go
Bbm7 Eb/Bb
For that cotton candy
Fm/Bb Cm7
Son you're playing with fire
F11 Bbmaj7
The kid will live and learn
E7-5 Ebmaj13
As he watches his bridges burn
A7+5+9 Dm7
From the point of no re turn
[Chorus]
Eb F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
Dm7 Eb F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
C9 F13
So fine so young
Bbmaj7 Bbm7 Eb9
Tell me I'm the only one
[Coda]
Dm7 C9 EbF/Eb Dm7 G/FFmaj7 Ebmaj7
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Dm7 EbF/Eb Ab7-5Dm7 G/FFmaj7 Ebmaj7
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Dm7 EbF/Eb Ab7-5
| |
* * * * You got to shake it baby you got to shake it baby you got to
Dm7 G/FFmaj7 Ebmaj7
| | |
* * * * * * * *
sha-ake it
Dm7 EbF/Eb Ab7-5
| |
* * * * You got to shake it baby you got to shake it baby you got to
Dm7 G/FFmaj7 Ebmaj7
| | |
* * * * * * * *
sha-ake it
Dm7 EbF/Eb Ab7-5
| |
* * * * You got to shake it baby you got to shake it baby you got to
...fade

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BABYLON SISTERS
Transcription and chart
Peter Kruger
casparus60@yahoo.com
[Intro]
[Chorus]
                                         ^   ^       ^     ^     ^      
 a gain         ba-a-d ne-e-ews
                                                                                       We'll jog with
[Verse 2]
[Chorus]
                                              ^     ^        ^     ^     ^           
a gain
                                                                     -- My friends say                  
[Verse 3]
[Chorus]
[Coda]
 sha-ake it
 sha-ake it
...fade

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