Song: Mother of pearl
Artist: Roxy Music
Composer: Bryan Ferry
Album: Stranded
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' at ultimateGuitar.com)
9th May 2017
[Lead riff]
E5 D5
e |------|-------------------|-----------------|
B |------|-------------------|-----------------|
G |------|-------------------|-----------------|
D |--9\--|-----7----9--------|-7-7-----9-------|
A |------|--7----7----10~-7--|-----10-----10\--|
E |------|-------------------|-----------------|
\ = slide down
~ = vibrato
E5 = 0799xx D = x57775
D5 = x577xx A = x02220
A5 = 577xxx E = 079997
B5 = 799xxx A4 = x02230
N.C. = No chords
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[Verse 1]
E5 D5 E5 D5 E5
Turn the lights down, turn up the music,
(Way down ....low!) (Hi as Fi can go!)
D5 E5
All the gang's here,
(Everyone you know!)
B5 A5
It's a crazy scene, oo - hoo!
(Hey, there! Just look over your shoulder!)
E5 D5 E5 B5 A5
Get the picture? No, no, yes----!
(No, no, no---!)
[Verse 2]
E5 D5 E5
Walk a tight-rope,
(Your tight side - line!)
E5 D5 E5
Such a bright hope,
(Right place, right time!)
E5 D5 E5
What's your number?
(Never you ...mind!)
E5 B5
Take a powder!
(But hang on a minute! What's that coming 'round the corner?)
A5
Woo -hoo!
(Woo -oo -oo -oo!)
E5 D5 E5 B5 A5
Have you a future? No, no, yes----!
(No, no, no----------!)
[Solo break]
E5 D5 E5 D5
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E5 D5 E5 D5
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A5
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E5 D5 E5 D5
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B5 A5 E5
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[Piano bridge]
D A E
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D A E
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[Verse 3]
D
Well, I've been up all night again,
A E
Party-time wasting is ...too much ...fun,
D A A4 A
Then I step back thinking of life's inner mean - ing,
E
And my ...latest fling,
D A
It's the same old story, all love and glory,
E
It's a pantomime,
D A
If you're looking for love in a looking-glass world,
E
It's pretty ...hard to find!
[Verse 4]
D
Oh, mother of pearl,
A E
I wouldn't trade you for a - nother girl,
D A
Di - vine intervention, al - ways my intention,
E
So I ...take my time,
D A
I've been looking for something I've always wanted,
E D
But was never mine, but now I've seen that something,
A E
Just out of reach, glowing, very ...Holy Grail!
[Verse 5]
D A E
Oh, mother of pearl, lustrous lady of a sacred world,
D A
Thus, even Zarathustra, a - nother time-loser,
E D
Could be - lieve in you, with every goddess a let down,
A E
Every idol a bring down, it ....gets you down,
D
But the search for perfection,
A E
Your own predilection goes on, and on, and on, and on!
[Verse 6]
D
Can - adian Club love,
A E
A place in the country, every - one's ideal,
D A
But you are my favorita, and a place in your heart, dear,
E
Makes me ...feel more ...real!
[Verse 7]
D
Oh, mother of pearl,
A E
I wouldn't change you for the ...whole world,
D
You're highbrow holy,
A E
With lots of soul, melancholy ...shimmering,
D A
Ser - pentine sleekness was always my weakness,
E
Like a ...simple tune,
D A E
But no dilettante filigree fancy beats the ...plastic you!
[Verse 8]
D A
Ca - reer-girl cover, ex - posed,
E
And another slips right into view,
D A
Oh, looking for love in a looking-glass world,
E D
Is pretty ...hard for you, few throw-away kisses,
A E
The boomerang misses, spin ...'round, and around,
D
Fall on feather bed quilted,
A E
Faced with silk softly stuffed ...eiderdown,
D
Take refuge in pleasure,
A E
Just give me your future, we'll for - get your past!
[Verse 9]
D
Oh, mother of pearl,
A E
Submarine lover in a ...shrinking world,
D
Oh, lonely dreamer,
A E
Your choker provokes a picture ...cameo,
D
Oh, mother of pearl,
A E
So - so semi-precious in your ...detached world,
D
Oh, mother of pearl,
A E
I wouldn't trade you for a - nother girl!
[Coda]
D
Oh, mother of pearl,
A E
I wouldn't trade you for a - nother girl,
D
Oh, mother of pearl,
A E
I wouldn't trade you for a - nother girl!
D
Oh, mother of pearl,
N.C.
I wouldn't trade you for another girl!
