Chords with lyrics
GARDENIA by Iggy Pop and Josh Homme
Submitted by Daniel
KEY: 
F#F#
NOTES regarding STRUMMING PATTERN
* Play fast up and down 16th notes during the intro and chorus
* Upstrokes on the 2 and 4 beats during the verse
MAIN RIFF
Repeats just before the choruses and at the end of every fourth bar in the chorus
e|------------|
BB|-9----------|
G+G|------8--11-|
D MajorD|---9--------|
A augmentedA|------------|
E MajorE|------------|
VERSE
[Verse 1]
F#F#
Gardenia
E MajorE
Where are you?
F#F#
Black goddess in a shabby raincoat
E MajorE
Where are you tonight?
F#F#
Cheap purple baby-doll dress
E MajorE
A augmentedA gardenia in your hair
F#F#
Much taller and stronger than me
E MajorE
A augmentedA forbidden dream, a dream, a dream
[Chorus]
F#F# E MajorE
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
F#F# E MajorE
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[Verse 2]
F#F#
Gardenia
E MajorE
Where are you, tonight?
F#F#
The streets were your home
E MajorE
Now where do you roam?
F#F#
Your hourglass ass
E MajorE
And your powerful back
F#F#
Your slant devil eyes
E MajorE
And the ditch on your spine
Deep ass, deep ass
[Chorus]
F#F# E MajorE
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
F#F# E MajorE
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[Bridge]
D MajorD
We lay in the darkness
F#F# E MajorE
Then she turned the lights on
D MajorD
I saw a dangerous habit
F#F# E MajorE
When she turned the lights on
D MajorD
There's always a catch in the darkness when you
F#F# 
G#G#
When you turn the lights on
D MajorD
There's always a catch Oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well
[Chorus]
F#F# E MajorE
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
F#F# E MajorE
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
[VERSE 3]
F#F#
Alone in the cheapo motel
E MajorE
By the highway to hell
F#F#
America's greatest living poet was ogling you all
E MajorE
Night, You should be wearing the finest gown
F#F#
But here you are now -- Gas, food, lodging,
E MajorE
poverty, misery --and gardenia
F#F#
You could be burned at the stake
E MajorE
For all your mistakes, mistakes, mistakes
[Chorus]
F#F# E MajorE
All I wanna do is tell Gardenia what to do tonight
F#F# E MajorE
THE END!
Gardenia chords
"Gardenia" is a song from punk and rock legend Iggy Pop's 17th album, "Post Pop Depression". Iggy Pop debuted "Gardenia" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
"Gardenia" was released as a single on March 1, 2016.
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