5 Chords used in the song: F#m, E, D, A, B
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Inrto:
A ----0--2--4-----|-------0--2-----|-5--9------5-5---5--9------5-5--|
E --2---------2-2-|--0--4------0-0-|--------------------------------|
C ----------------|----------------|--------------------------------|
G ----------------|----------------|------0--2------------0--2------|
VERSE:
F#m
Under my thumb's
E
The girl
D
Who once had me down
F#m
Under my thumb's
E
The girl
D
Who once pushed me around
CHORUS:
A
It's down to me
D B
The difference in the clothes she wears
F#m
It's down to me
E
The change has come
D A
She's under my thumb
(Ain't it the truth babe)
VERSE:
Under my thumb's
A squirming dog
Who just had her day
Under my thumb's
A girl
Who has just
Changed her ways
CHORUS:
It's down to me (yes it is)
The way she does just what she's told
Down to me
The change has come
She's under my thumb
(It's all right)
VERSE:
Under my thumb's
A siamese cat of a girl
Under my thumb
She's the sweetest pet
In the world
CHORUS:
It's down to me
The way she talks
When she's spoken to
Down to me
The change has come
She's under my thumb
(Take it easy babe)
INSTRUMENTAL: SOLO over the VERSE chords
CHORUS:
It's down to me
The way she talks
When she's spoken to
Down to me
The change has come
She's under my thumb
(It's all right)
VERSE:
Under my thumb
Her eyes
Are just kept to herself
Under my thumb
Well, I -- I can still look
At someone else
CHORUS:
It's down to me
The way she talks
When she's spoken to
Down to me
The change has come
She's under my thumb
*OUTRO:
It's all right } *REPEAT and FADE OUT
Take it easy babe }
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About this song: Under My Thumb
"Under My Thumb" is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones. Its first appearance was as an album track on 1966's Aftermath, and though it was never released as a single, it is one of the band's more popular songs from the period, appearing frequently on best-of compilations. The song's lyrics, an examination of a sexual power struggle, were very much in tune with the rebellious, vaguely misogynistic attitude that the mid-'60s Stones had cultivated...