Shake Dog Shake chords by The Cure

"SHAKE DOG SHAKE"    THE CURE
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Words: Robert Smith
Music: The Cure
Album: The Top
Year: 1985


Ha ha ha

Intro: C (x3)

Riff 1: C, Bb

C         Bb
Wake up in the dark
C         Bb      C       Bb, C, Bb, C
The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth
C        Bb
Spit it on the wall
C        Bb
And cough some more
        C        Bb  C, Bb
And scrape my skin with razor blades

  D#
And make up in the new blood
  D        A#m
And try to look so good
    C Bb, C, Bb
Follow me
D#
Make up in the new blood
   D       A#m        C, Bb, C
And follow me to where the real fun is

C    Bb
Ha ha ha
 C      Bb      C
As stale and selfish as a sick dog
Bb    C      Bb      C  Bb
Spurning sex like an animal of god
C            Bb   C
I'll tear your red hair by the roots
          Bb
And hold you blazing
     C           Bb       C, Bb
Hold you cherished in the dead electric light
   D#
Your face
         D   A#m   C  Bb, C, Bb
I'll never see you this way a---gain
 D#
I captured it so perfectly
   D       A#m    C, Bb, C, Bb
As if I knew you'd disappear away

D#
Shake shake shake shake
D
Shake shake shake shake
A#m    C  Bb C
Shake dog shake

D#
Shake shake shake shake
D
Shake shake shake shake
A#m    C  Bb C
Shake dog shake

  Bb
You hit me again
  C        Bb
You howl and hit me again
        C
The same sharp pain
Bb
Wakes me in the dark
   C              Bb
And cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart
  D#
My heart
  D
My shaking heart
      C
My howl my shake dog

Repeat Riff 1: C, Bb through "shake shake dog shake"

Oh shake dog shake
Shake shake
Shake dog shake

    D#           D    A#m
But we slept all night in the virgin's bed
        C
And dreamed of death
            Bb C
And breathed like sick dogs
  D#           D    A#m
We slept all night in the virgin's bed
          C
And breathed like death
          Bb  C
And dreamed of sick dogs

C      A A#m
Shake shake
      C  Bb, C
Shake dog shake

G      A#m   A
Wake up wake up wake up
 C      Bb, C, Bb
Shake dog shake
G      A#m    A
Wake up wake up wake up
 C      Bb, C, Bb
Shake dog shake





C     Bb   C    Bb
Wake up in the new blood
C     Bb    C    Bb
Make up in the new blood
C     Bb    C    Bb
Shake up in the new blood
  C       Bb        C
And follow me to where the real fun is

 Bb     C  Bb, C
Shake dog shake
 Bb     C  Bb, C
Shake dog shake
 Bb     C
Shake dog shake