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Mustang Sally Tab

by The Commitments


Mustang Sally - Bass Tab

Submitted by Kenny Kurtz
March 1, 2009

(12-bar blues in C)

  1   &   2   &   3   &   4   &    1   &   2   &...
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D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|3---------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|

                                                   Mustang Sally...
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|h3--------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|


G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|h3--------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|

                  Guess you better slow...    that mustang down!
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D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|h3--------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|

G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|3---------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|

                                                   Mustang Sally...
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|h3--------------------------1---|h3--------------------------3---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|


G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|3---------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
A|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

                  Guess you better slow...    that mustang down!
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|h3--------------------------1---|h3--------------------------3---|
A|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|3---------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|

                                                           You been
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D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|h3--------------------------1---|h3--------------------------3---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|

  ridin'  all     ov  -   er  town     now...
G|0-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|------------0-------0-------3---|h5----------0---h5------4-------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

  Ooooooo!        Guess you better put your flat feet on the ground.
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D|3-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


At this point, the whole bass line starts over from the top and
just repeats again and again for every chorus and verse...


G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|3---------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|


G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|h3--------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|


  All you  wanna  do   is     ride around, Sally...
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D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|3---------------------------1---|h3--------------------------1---|
E|------------3-------3-----------|------------3-------3-----------|


...(Ride, Sally, ride!)
All you wanna do is ride around, Sally (Ride, Sally, ride!)
All you wanna do is ride around, Sally (Ride, Sally, ride!)
All you wanna do is ride around, Sally (Ride, Sally, ride!)
I said one of these early mornin's...
You're gonna be wipin' those weepin' eyes.

I bought you a brand new Mustang... a nineteen sixty-five.
Now you come around signifyin' a woman who don't wanna let me ride.
Mustang Sally - guess you better slow that Mustang down.
You been ridin' all over town now...
Guess you better put your flat feet on the ground

All you wanna do is ride around, Sally (Ride, Sally, ride!)
All you wanna do is ride around, Sally (Ride, Sally, ride!)
All you wanna do is ride around, Sally (Ride, Sally, ride!)
All you wanna do is ride around, Sally (Ride, Sally, ride!)
I said one of these early mornin's...
You're gonna be wipin' those weepin' eyes.

Those weepin' eyes
Those weepin' eyes
Those weepin' eyes
Those weepin' eyes