Kinks-Lola - BPM - 75
[Intro - Count 1 2 start phrase on 3 - No drums]X X X X - X X X X
[C] [C] [C] [C] - x [D] [D] X
[E] ..............
[Verse 1]
I [E] met her in a club down in old Soho
where you [A] drink champagne and it [D] tastes just
like coca [E] cola - C-O-L-A, [A] cola [Asus4] [A]
She [E] walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I [A] asked her her name and in a [D] dark brown voice
she said [E] Lola L-O-L-A,
[A] Lola, [D] Lo lo lo lo
[C] lola
[Intro phrase] [C] [D] [E]
[Vamp - Drums in - Bendy blues phrase - Fill 1 - Thumb and first finger to play individual notes hard]
[E] x 4 * = snare hit
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G|-----9-9-9------11-9----9------------
D|-----9-9-9-----------11-9-11-9-------
A|--x--x-x-x---------------------9-9s11
E|--0------------------------------------
[Verse 2]
Well
[E] I'm not the worlds most physical guy but when she
[A] squeezed me tight she nearly
[D] broke my spine, oh my
[E] Lola .. Lo lo lo lo
[A] Lola [Asus4] [A]
[Verse 3]
Well
[E] I'm not dumb but I can't understand why she
[A] walked like a woman and [D] talked like a man oh my
[E] Lola .. Lo lo lo lo
[A] Lola [D] Lo lo lo lo
[C] Lola
[Intro phrase] [C] [D] [E]
[Vamp - Bendy blues phrase]
[E] x 4
[Chorus 1]
Well we
[B7] drank champagne and danced all night
[F#] under electric candlelight She
[A] picked me up and sat me on her knee and
[A] said 'Dear boy, won't you come home with me'
[Verse 4]
Well
[E] I'm not the world's most passionate guy but when I
[A] looked in her eye, well I [D] almost fell for my
[E] Lola Lo lo lo lo
[A] Lola [D] Lo lo lo lo
[C] Lola ......
[Intro phrase] [C] [D] [E]
[E] Lola Lo lo lo lo
[A] Lola [D] Lo lo lo lo
[C] Lola .......
[Intro phrase] [C] [D] [E]
[Vamp - Bendy blues phrase]
[E] x 4
[Bridge]
I
[A] pushed [E] her a [B] way .. I
[A] walked [E] to the [B] door ..I
[A] fell [E] to the [B] floor .. I got
[E] down [G#m] on my [C#m] knees .. Then
[B7] I looked at her and she at me
[Verse 5]
Well
[E] that's the way that I want it to stay and I
[A] always want it to [D] be that way for my
[E] Lola .. Lo lo lo lo
[A] Lola [Asus4] [A]
[E] Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It's a
[A] mixed up, muddled up, [D] shook up world except for
[E] Lola Lo lo lo lo [A] Lola
[Chorus 2]
Well I
[B7] left home just a week before And
[F#] I'd never ever kissed a woman before
[A] Lola smiled and took me by the hand and
[A] said 'dear boy, I'm gonna make you a man'
[Verse 6]
Well
[E] I'm not the worlds most masculine man but I
[A] know what I am and I'm [D] glad I'm a man and so is
[E] Lola, lo lo lo lo
[A] lola [D] Lo lo lo lo
[C] Lola
[Intro phrase] [C] [D] [E]
[Outro]
[E] Lola Lo lo lo lo
[A] Lola [D] Lo lo lo lo
[C] Lola ......
[Intro phrase] [C] [D] [E]
[E] Lola Lo lo lo lo
[A] Lola [D] Lo lo lo lo
[C] Lola ......
[Intro phrase] [C] [D] [E]
[End]
[E]
[Notes]
Here's approximately how the picking goes:
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B|---1----1----1-1-1-1--3-3----0-----0----0----0--------0----|
G|---0----0----0-0-0-0--2-2----1-------1----1----1----1---1--|
D|---2----2----2-2-2-2--0-0----2-----------------------------|
A|---3----3----3-3-3-3---------2-----------------------------|
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[Fill 1 - Keep underlying chord ringing to fill sound - play riff by strumming all strings but emphasis those notes]
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B|-----9-9-9---9-----------------------
G|-----9-9-9------11-9----9------------
D|-----9-9-9-----------11---11-9-------
A|--x--x-x-x---------------------9-9s11
E|--0------------------------------------