"Anaconda" by The Sisters of Mercy (from the album "Some Girls Wander by Mistake")
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transcribed by Todd Eigenschink (eigenstr@CS.Rose-Hulman.Edu)


Riff 1:

e|---------9---------------------------------------------------
B|-10--12-------12---12--10---12--12---12--10---12--12--10-----
G|----------------------------------------------------------11-

e|---------9---------------------------------------
B|-10--12-------12---12--10---12--12---12--10------
G|---------------------------------------------11--


Riff 2:

e|-----------------------------------------------------------
B|-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-18^(19)-17-18^(19)-17-18^(19)-17--
G|-----------------------------------------------------------

e|-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-17-----
B|----------------------------------------------19--
G|--------------------------------------------------


Riff 3:

e|-----------------------------------------------------------
B|-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-18^(19)-17-18^(19)-17-18^(19)-17--
G|-----------------------------------------------------------

e|-------------------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------------------
G|-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-


Riff 4:

e|------------------9----------------------
B|-12-12-10-12---12---12-10--10--------10--
G|------------------------------11--11-----

e|-----------------------------------------------
B|-12-12-10-12--10-12-10--12-12-10-12--10-12-10--
G|-----------------------------------------------


Riff 5:

   E               D               B
e|-7---------------5---------------2------------------------------
B|-9---------------7---------------4------------------------------
G|-9---------------7---------------4------------------------------
D|-9---------------7---------------4------------------------------
A|-7---------------5---------------2------------------------------
E|-7---------------5---------------2------------------------------


Riff 6:

   E               D               E
e|-7---------------5---------------7------------------------------
B|-9---------------7---------------9------------------------------
G|-9---------------7---------------9------------------------------
D|-9---------------7---------------9------------------------------
A|-7---------------5---------------7------------------------------
E|-7---------------5---------------7------------------------------


Riff 7:

e|-19------------------------------------------------------------

                            How to play it
                            --------------

               |  Verse    |  Chorus   |           |           |
Guitar 1:      |  1 1 1 1  |  2 3 4 4  |  1 1 1 1  |  2 3 4 4  |
Guitar 2:      |           |      5 5  |           |      5 5  |

            Verse    |  Chorus   |      Verse    |  Chorus   |
Guitar 1:   8        |  2 3 4 4  |  1 1 1 1 1 1  |  2 3 4 4  |  4 4
Guitar 2:            |      5 5  |               |      5 5  |  5 6


                                Notes
                                -----

In guitar riffs 2 and 3, the 18^(19) means pick the 18th fret, and
then bend up half a step to the 19th.  Or even just pick the 17th and
bend up a full step.  You could just pick the 19th, but that riff is
so monotonous with all that picking the same note over and over...

Guitar riff 7 is kind of a joke--it's that one note that's held for
the entire verse.  In the studio, the Sisters used a synth with an
organ sound that's not unlike the lead guitar sound.  It's not much
fun to pick that one note continuously for that long, so we used a
synth, too.  Feedback would be a perfect expression of the note if
you're so fortunate as to be able to play loudly enough.

Guitar 2 plays exactly the same thing as the bass, except where riff 5
or 6 is indicated.

Ad lib heavily on guitar riffs 2, 3, and 4.


                                Lyrics
                                ------

Baby buy an anaconda baby buy a thing to wear
She go walking she go crawling she go sliding through the air
She go talking warm and fashion she go talking debonair
But see her face turn to a mask
And passion turn to she don't care

She will she will she will she will let it take her breath away
She will she will she will she will let it take her life away
Let it wrap itself around her till it kill her in it's way
She will she will she will she will blow away

Baby hit the rush hour traffic get a ride to anywhere
Baby buy the number three she pay the man she pay the fare
Baby hit the wild blue yonder on the mainline on the side
Steal to feed the Anaconda will not see the suicide

Chorus

Baby finger on the trigger baby shoot formaldehyde
Turn into a marble figure turn the matter dead inside
Turn into a China doll maybe go to the final ride
Baby go where I don't follow baby to the other side

She will she will she will she will make it take her breath away
She will she will she will she will make it take her life away
Make it wrap itself around her till it kill her in its way
She will she will she will she will blow away