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From: Winston Campbell
Subject: DRESSING UP by The Cure
Dressing Up
(words & music by Robert Smith)
I love this song, any time I hear it, I think of my friend Annita for some
reason (I have only known her a couple months). Anyway, I am transcribing
the -Paris- version of the song. It really does not make that much of a
difference since I have heard the original and it sounds exactly like
the -Paris- version. I broke the song up into two riffs like these:
Riff 1 (the tantalizing keyboard riff):
[E] --------2-3-2----------|------2-3-2-------|--------------|--------------|
[B] ----0-3-------3-0-0-0--|--0-3-------3-0---|--------------|--------------|
[G] -----------------------|------------------|--------------|--------------|
[D] -----------------------|------------------|---2---0--2---|-5--2--0--2---|
[A] -2---------------------|------------------|--------------|------------2-|
[E] -----------------------|------------------|-0------------|--------------|
Riff 2 (The spine-tingling duo notes):
[E] ---3---2--3---5---|-2--------|---3---2--3---5---|-2--------|
[B] ---5---3--5---7---|-3--------|---5---3--5---7---|-3--------|
[G] ------------------|----------|------------------|----------|
[D] ------------------|----------|------------------|----------|
[A] ------------------|----------|------------------|----------|
[E] ------------------|----------|------------------|----------|
Those are basically the riffs with the chords on top. The lyrics are:
{Riff 1}
Going under slowly
It never seems too late
Going under slow
{Riff 2}
Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to touch your lips
{Riff 1}
(Dressing up, dressing up)
(Dressing up, dressing up)
I~m dressing up to dance all week
I~m dressing up to be all this
{Riff 2}
Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to be all this
I could eat your face
(Riff 1)
I could eat all of you
Oh this night will never let me go...
Going under slowly
Never seems too late
Going under slowly
There you pick me up again...
I usually play the chords like this:
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x 2 4 4 3 2
x 3 5 5 5 x
x 5 7 7 7 x
x 7 9 9 x x
0 2 2 0 0 0
6 8 8 7 x x
5 7 7 6 x x
3 2 0 0 3 3
1 3 3 2 1 1
(And that is all for now- Adios)