Honky Tonk
Women
Words
& Music:
Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
To play like Keef, you gotta tune to open G [D G D G B D - low to
high]. Ideally, you also remove
the lowest string, but it is not necessary. Tabs in both Open G & standard tuning are given.
Most of the
song can then be played using very simple shapes in Open G:
G C
F/C
A D G/D G6
DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD DGDGBD
DGDGBD
000000 555555 557565 222222 777777 779787
002000
G
C
I met a
gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis.
G
A
D
She tried to
take me upstairs for a ride.
G
C
The lady had
to heave me across her shoulder.
G
D
G
Now I just
can't seem to drink you off my mind
CHORUS: [2x]
G
D G
D
G
It's the
honky-tonk women gimmie, gimmie, gimmmie the honky-tonk blues.
I played a
divorcˇe in New York City.
I had to put
up some kind of a fight.
The lady
went and covered me up in roses.
She blew my
nose and then she blue my mind.
CHORUS: [4x & out]
1.
Simple Standard Tuning Tab:
best
through distortion:
---------------------------------
-0--0-0--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-
-0--0-0--3-1-0-1-0-3-1-0-0-0-1-0-
-------------------------2-------
---------------------------------
---------------------------------
2. Tab
In Open G Tuning
|------|---------|...|---------|-----0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|---------|
|------|---------|...|---------|---------------|-----------------|---------|
|----0-|-0---0-0-|...|-0---0-0-|-0---4-2-0-2-0-|-4-2-0---0-2-0-0-|-0---0-0-|
|----0-|-0---0-0-|...|-0---0-0-|-0-------------|-------2---------|-0---0-0-|
|------|---------|...|---------|---------------|-----------------|---------|
|------|---------|...|---------|---------------|-----------------|---------|
|------------|---------|-----5-3-0-0--|---------|---------|---------|
|------------|-5---6-6-|-5------------|---------|-----3-2-|-7---8-8-|
|-0--------0-|-5---5-5-|-5---0-0-0-3b-|-0-------|-2---2-2-|-7---7-7-|
|-0--------0-|-5---7-7-|-5------------|-0-------|-2---4-2-|-7---9-9-|
|-----0-3b---|-5---5-5-|-5------------|-0---0-1-|-2---2-2-|-7---7-7-|
|------------|---------|--------------|---------|---------|---------|
|------------|---------|--------|---------|-----5-3-0-0--|----------|
|-7----------|---------|--------|-5---6-6-|-5------------|----------|
|-7--------0-|-----0-0-|------0-|-5---5-5-|-5---0-0-0-3b-|-0------0-|
|-7--------0-|-----0-0-|------0-|-5---7-7-|-5------------|-0------0-|
|-7---0-3b---|-0-------|-0-3b---|-5---5-5-|-5------------|-0-0-3b---|
|------------|---------|--------|---------|--------------|----------|
|-------------|----...
|-7-----------|----...
|-7-------(7)-|-0--...
|-7---(7)-----|-0--...
|-7-----------|-0--...
|-------------|----...
3. A
Full Standard Tuning Tab:
e--------...------------------------------------------------------------------
B--------...-------3---3---3---3-3-0---0-3------------------------------------
G--------...-------4---4-0-2-0-4-2-0---0-2------------------------------------
D-5---5--...-------------------------2-----5---------5---5--------------------
A-5---5--...-------------------------------5---------5---5--------------------
E-3---3--...-------------------------------3---------3---3--------------------
These G5-chords are
played on the upstrokes, but listen to the record to
get the correct
rhythm..
|
|
| |
e-------------------------------------3-1-------------------------------------
B----------------5-------6---6-5------5-3-3-0---0---0---2---2-3---3-2---------
G------------0---5-------5---5-5----------4-0---0-2-0---2---2-2---2-2---------
D--5---5---------5-------5---5-5------------0---0-2-0---2---2-4---4-2---------
A--5---5--0h2-----------------------------------------------------------------
E--3---3----------------------------------------------------------------------
| | |
|
|
e-------------------------------------------------------------3-1-----
B--7-------8---8-7---------------------------------6---6-5----5-3-3-0-
G--7-------8---7-7-------0---------------0---------5---5-5--------4-0-
D--7-------7---7-7-------------------------5-------5---5-5------------
A--5------------------0h2-2p0--------0h2---3--------------------------
E-------------------3---------3----3----------------------------------
|
| |
e--1---------------------------------------------
B--3--------------7------7-8-------------------0-
G---------------0-7-----------4-gl-2-4-----0-2-0-
D-----------------7-----------4-gl-2-5---------0-
A-----------0h2---5------------------5-----------
E---------3--------------------------3-----------
Now the
chorus comes along.. G chord and D chord, and then a little riff:
e---------------------
B--12---13-12---13-12-
G--12---14-12---14-12-
D--12---12-12---12-12-
A---------------------
E---------------------
This riff
twice, before some more g chord and D chord, and then the
end-of-chorus-riff:
e------------------------------
B------------------------------
G---2gl4-4-----2-2gl4gl2-0---0-
D---4gl5-5-----4-4gl5gl4-0-2-0-
A------------------------------
E------------------------------
Note from
this unknown tabber: "This
riff I'm not so sure about.. The glissandos are right, but I think there's
supposed to be some more up'n'down.
Keef of course plays the thing differently on the second verse, but I've
never bothered to do that.. All the parts that lead up to a different chord can
be changed around and altered, and I think that it's mainly this Keith R.
does. A final remark: This is of
course not correct, since Keith plays this in open-G- tuning (d-B-G-D-G WITHOUT
the 6th string)."