STRUMMING PATTERN NOTES * Play fast up and down 16th notes during the intro and chorus * Upstrokes on the 2 and 4 beats during the verse [MAIN RIFF] Repeats just before the choruses and at the end of every fourth bar in the chorus e|------------| B|-9----------| G|------8--11-| D|---9--------| A|------------| E|------------| [Verse 1] F# Gardenia E Where are you? F# Black goddess in a shabby raincoat E Where are you tonight? F# Cheap purple baby-doll dress E A gardenia in your hair F# Much taller and stronger than me E A forbidden dream, a dream, a dream [Chorus] F# E All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight F# E All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight [Verse 2] F# Gardenia E Where are you, tonight? F# The streets were your home E Now where do you roam? F# Your hourglass ass E And your powerful back F# Your slant devil eyes E And the ditch on your spine Deep ass, deep ass [Chorus] F# E All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight F# E All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight [Bridge] D We lay in the darkness F# E Then she turned the lights on D I saw a dangerous habit F# E When she turned the lights on D There's always a catch in the darkness when you F# G# When you turn the lights on D There's always a catch Oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well [Chorus] F# E All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight F# E All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight [Verse 3] F# Alone in the cheapo motel E By the highway to hell F# America's greatest living poet was ogling you all E Night, You should be wearing the finest gown F# But here you are now -- Gas, food, lodging, E poverty, misery --and gardenia F# You could be burned at the stake E For all your mistakes, mistakes, mistakes [Chorus] F# E All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight F# E All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
