STATUS QUO - "big fat mama" Tablature

Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 00:14:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Peter Eybert <pjoe@charon.muc.de>
Subject: TAB: Big Fat Mama by Status Quo



Big Fat Mama

written by Rossi/Parfitt
performed by Status Quo
from "Piledriver", 1972


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A C A C A C D C

A
Say you need me, ....
C
Tell me that ...
D A
Say you will be ...
A
You think that ...
C
I'm telling you that ...
D A
All those ...
E A
I am ...
E A
You be mine ....

D E A | A C A C A C D C |

A
You keep telling me ...
C
I'm telling you...
D A
All the things that you ....
A
Say you need me, ....
C
Tell me that ....
D A
Say will be mine ...
E A
I am yours t....
E A
You be ....

D E A

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Am Am Am Am

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Am E Am E Am E E7 Am
[2 times, then:]

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Am Am Am D7 Dm7

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Am D G Dm7 A5 A7no3

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A A A A

A
I got a big fat Mama ...
D A
Really thinks she's ....
A
But I love that woman ...
B E
And there is ...
A
I'm gonna tell you ...
D Db C B
If you don't, ...
A
I've got a big ....
C D A
And ...

A
I said say ...
C
Come on and ...
D A
I said say ....

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A
Say you ....
C
Come on and say ...
D A
I said say ....


[during Solo:]
|A C D A|

CODA:
|A G | A


Thanks to J.Carlos Palazon for sending these lyrics
Transcribed by Peter Eybert <pjoe@charon.muc.de>
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