Sympathy For the Devil
The Rolling Stones 

(Percussion and tribal sounds)
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                  E                                       D
                    Please allow me to introduce myself
                             A                             E      add4
                    I'm a man of wealth and taste
                    I've been around for a long, long year
                    Stole many a man's soul and faith
                    I was round when Jesus Christ
                    Had his moment of doubt and pain
                    Made damn sure that Pilate
                    Washed his hands and sealed his fate

                                     B                                 add4                   add4    E      add4
                                        Pleased to meet you  -  hope you guess my name
                                     add4              B                 add4              add4     E   add4
                                        But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game

                    I stuck around St. Petersburg
                    When I saw it was a time for a change
                    I killed the Tzar and his ministers
                    Anastasia screamed in vain
                    I rode a tank, held a general's rank
                    When the Blitzkreig raged and the bodies stank

                                        Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, oh yeah
                                        Ah, what's puzzling you is the nature of my game, ah yeah

                       (start "hoo hoo's")
                    I watched with glee while your kings and queens
                    Fought for ten decades for the gods they made
                    I shouted out "Who killed the Kennedys?"
                    When after all it was you and me
                    Let me please introduce myself
                    I'm a man of wealth and taste
                    And I lay traps for troubadours
                    Who get killed before they reach Bombay

                                        Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, oh yeah
                                        But what's puzzling you, is the nature of my game, ah yeah
                                                         *Solo*  (verse)

                                        Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, oh yeah
                                        But what's confusing you is just the nature of my game

                    Just as every cop is criminal
                    And all the sinners - saints
                    As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer
                    Cause I'm in need of some restraint
                    So if you meet me, have some courtesy
                    Have some sympathy and some taste
                    Use all your well learned politesse
                    Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah

                                        Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, mm yeah
                                        But what's puzzling you, is the nature of my game
                                        Mmm, I mean it - get down
                                                         *Solo*  (verse chords 'til fade)

                                   (solo works in and out of rap)
                                        Woo hoo, ah yeah -- get on down, oh yeah
                                        Mmmmm~ bump bump bump bump ba boom boom
                                        Bump bump bump bump ba boom boom
                                        Ah yeah, tell me baby, what's my name?
                                        Tell me honey, can you guess my name?
                                        Tell me baby,  what's my name?
                                        What's my name?...

                                                                               (jam and lyrical improv 'til fade...)
      


  Copyright 1968
  By Mick Jaggar and Keith Richards
  Beggar's Banquet





   Chords:
          E   D   A   B   B4  E4
      e |-0---2---0---2---2---0--
      B |-0---3---2---4---5---0--
      G |-1---2---2---4---4---2--
      D |-2---0---2---4---4---2--
      A |-2---0---0---2---2---2--
      E |-0-------------------0--







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