WHITESNAKE - "still of the night" Tablature

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From: Dave Mosley <mosley@sii.com>
Subject: TAB: Still of the night - Whitesnake
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 95 09:11:00 PDT

Played with lots o' fuzz and a touch of chorus.

~~ = let the chord (or note) ring.


Still of the Night
Whitesnake
Geffen M2G 24099 1987

Intro
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------6----|
|------------------------------------------4---7--|
|----------------4~~-------------4~~--------------|
|------/\/\/\/\0h2~~-----------0h2~~--------------|

Pick scrape (pinched)


|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------|
|---4~~---------------------------------------------------------------------
-------|
|-0h2~~---------------------------------------------------------------------
-------|

In the still of the night I hear the wolf howl honey, sniffin around your
door
In the still of the night I feel my heart beating heavy, tellin me I gotta
have more

2x
||------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------4-2--||
||*------------------------------------------------------4-2-*||
||*----------------------------------------------4-------4-2-*||
||---2h3p2p0-2p0-------2h3p2p0-2p0---------------------4------||
||---------------2p0---------------2p0---2---2-2---2---2------||


|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--4----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--4----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--2----------------------------------------------------------------------|

In the shadow of night I see the full moon rise, telling me what's in store

|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---4~~-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-0h2~~-------------------------------------------------------------------|

My heart starts aching, my body starts shaking, and I can't take no more


2x
||--------------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------4-2--||
||*--------------------------------------------------------4-2-*||
||*------------------------------------------------4-------4-2-*||
||-0-2-2h3p2p0-2p0-------2h3p2p0-2p0---------------------4------||
||-----------------2p0---------------2p0---2---2-2---2---2------||


2x
||---------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------9-7---||
||*--------------------------------------------9-7--*||
||*--------------------------------------------9-7--*||
||----------7-----------7-----------7----------------||
||---0--0-0---0---0-0-0---0--0--0-0---0---0-0-0------||



A
I just wanna get close to you, and taste your love so sweet

B A G F~~
And I just wanna make love to you, and feel your body heat


2x
||-----------------------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------7-5---||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------7-5---||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------7-5---||
||------------------------------7-----------7-----------7----------------||
||-----------------------0--0-0---0---0-0-0---0--0--0-0---0---0-0-0------||

In the still of the night

2x
||------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------4-2--||
||*------------------------------------------------------4-2-*||
||*------------------------------------------------------4-2-*||
||---2h3p2p0-2p0-------2h3p2p0-2p0---------------------4------||
||---------------2p0---------------2p0---2---2-2---2---2------||


Second verse, same as the first (gee, I've always wanted to say that).

-------------------------------

|----------------------------------------------------------
|--7-------7------------------5-------5--------------------
|--7-------7------------------5-------5--------------------
|--7-------7------------------5-------5--------------------
|------/9------9------------------/7------7----------------
|----------------------------------------------------------

In the still of the night in the cool moonlight


|----------------------------------------------------------
|--2---------2-------------------------------------10---9--
|--2---------2-------------------------------------10---9--
|--2---------2-------------------------------------10---9--
|--0--0-0-0--0---------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------------------

I feel my heart is aching In the still of the night

-------------------------------

Then it gets slow, and I get bored. Before the next verse,
he farts around sliding some major chords, kinda like this:

|----------------------------6-----------------------------
|----------------------------6-----------------------------
|---9---7----12----7----5----7-----------------------------
|---9---7----12----7----5----8-----------------------------
|---9---7----12----7----5----8-----------------------------
|----------------------------8-----------------------------


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