STRAY CATS - "gina" Tablature

From: Juhani Laakso <a70812@UWasa.Fi>
Subject: TAB: Gina by Stray Cats
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:52:22 +0200 (EET)

Hello all you Stray Cats fans! Here are the chords and some tabs
for one of their catchiest tunes, Gina, from the Blast Off album.
I've also included the guitar parts (the intro and the middle-part)
in tablature. I'm pretty sure they all are right. If you have any
comments and/or corrections then feel free to mail me at:
Juhani.Laakso@uwasa.fi

Enjoy!
Juhani


Gina by Stray Cats from the album Blast Off.
(originally written by the Paine Brothers)
Transcribed by Juhani Laakso.


Guitar intro:

For the simple solution, just play D E A four times.
To make it more interesting, play the riff:

D E A D E A
e -----------------------------------------------------------
B -----------------------------------------------------------
G -----------------------------------------------------------
D -2-------0-0-0-0---------------0-0-0-0---------------------
A ---0-2-4---------4-2---0-0-2-4---------4-2---0-0-2-4-------
E ---------------------4---------------------4---------------

D E A D E A
e ------------------------------------------
B ------------------------------------------
G ------------------------------------------
D -0-0-0-0---------------0-0-0-0------------
A ---------4-2---0-0-2-4---------4-2-2-0----
E -------------4----------------------------


1. & 2. verse:

D E A
Well they say Gina ...
D E A
Because you know the ...
D E F#m
Oh that was yesterday, ...
D E A
Gina, don't you run ...


D E A
Well they say Gina, ....
D E A
But that's the ...
D E F#m
Well I'm begging on my knees, ...
D E A
Oh Gina, don't you ..


Chorus (play arpeggio-style, except the last two rows):


Bm E
Well Gina, ...
Bm E
But I think you're ...
Bm E
They think ...
D E
But I can see ..
D E A
Oh Gina, don't you ....

Hey!


Guitar break:

The simple way: play D E A twice and D E F#m once.
The tablature for the guitar riff:

D E A D E A
e -----------------------0-----------------------0-----------
B -----------------------2-----------------------2-----------
G -----------------------2-----------------------2-----------
D -------0-0-0-0---------2-------0-0-0-0---------2-----------
A -0-2-4---------4-2---0-0-0-2-4---------4-2-2-4-0-0-2-4-----
E -------------------4---------------------------------------

D E F#m
e -------------------------2-----
B -------------------------2-----
G -------------------------2-----
D -0-0-0-0-----------------4-----
A ---------4-2-------------4-----
E -------------0-2-2-2-0-2-2-----

D E A
Oh Gina, don't ...


Chorus (arpeggio-style):

Bm E
Well Gina, you're ....
Bm E
But I think you're old ....(to sigh?)
Bm E
They think ...
D E
But I can see the ...
(non-arpeggio:)
No! (No) No! (No!)

Listen when ...


3. verse:

D E A
Gina, don't ...
D E A
Because you know ...
D E F#m
Oh that was yesterday, oh ...
D E A
Gina, don't you ...
D E A
Well they say Gina, ...
D E A
Gina, don't you ...
D E A
Well they say Gina, don't ....

Hey!


The ending of the song:
Play the guitar intro at the same time as you sing this line
(listen to the record and you'll know how to time it right):

D E A
*(Don't listen baby) Well they say ...

*play this 7 times


The guitar-part in the last line is just slightly different over
the last two chords, try to find it out yourself, it's very easy.

D E F#m
(Don't listen baby) Gina, ....



Listen to the record and play with it! That is the easiest
way to get the timing and the other things right.