Gina chords by Stray Cats

Chords with lyrics

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:
[email protected]

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 MajorD E MajorE A augmentedA four times.
To make it more interesting, play the riff:

 	  D MajorD	   E MajorE  A augmentedA	 D MajorD	  E MajorE  A augmentedA
e -----------------------------------------------------------
BB -----------------------------------------------------------
G+G -----------------------------------------------------------
D MajorD -2-------0-0-0-0---------------0-0-0-0---------------------
A augmentedA ---0-2-4---------4-2---0-0-2-4---------4-2---0-0-2-4-------
E MajorE ---------------------4---------------------4---------------

  D MajorD	   E MajorE	 A augmentedA	 D MajorD     E MajorE  A augmentedA
e ------------------------------------------
BB ------------------------------------------
G+G ------------------------------------------
D MajorD -0-0-0-0---------------0-0-0-0------------
A augmentedA ---------4-2---0-0-2-4---------4-2-2-0----
E MajorE -------------4----------------------------


1. & 2. verse:

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


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

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


   B minorBm		  E MajorE
Well Gina, ...
   B minorBm			 E MajorE
But I think you're ...
B minorBm	     E MajorE
They think ...
  D MajorD 			    E MajorE
But I can see ..
  D MajorD		  E MajorE	  A augmentedA
Oh Gina, don't you ....

Hey!


Guitar break:

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

 	 D MajorD	  E MajorE  A augmentedA	 D MajorD	  E MajorE  A augmentedA
e -----------------------0-----------------------0-----------
BB -----------------------2-----------------------2-----------
G+G -----------------------2-----------------------2-----------
D MajorD -------0-0-0-0---------2-------0-0-0-0---------2-----------
A augmentedA -0-2-4---------4-2---0-0-0-2-4---------4-2-2-4-0-0-2-4-----
E MajorE -------------------4---------------------------------------

  D MajorD	   E MajorE	 F# minorF#m
e -------------------------2-----
BB -------------------------2-----
G+G -------------------------2-----
D MajorD -0-0-0-0-----------------4-----
A augmentedA ---------4-2-------------4-----
E MajorE -------------0-2-2-2-0-2-2-----

  D MajorD		  E MajorE	  A augmentedA
Oh Gina, don't ...


Chorus (arpeggio-style):

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

Listen when ...


3. verse:

D MajorD        E MajorE    A augmentedA
Gina, don't ...
      D MajorD        E MajorE     A augmentedA
Because you know ...
  D MajorD       E MajorE    F# minorF#m
Oh that was yesterday, oh ...
D MajorD        E MajorE    A augmentedA
Gina, don't you ...
       D MajorD        E MajorE    A augmentedA
Well they say Gina, ...
D MajorD        E MajorE    A augmentedA
Gina, don't you ...
       D MajorD        E MajorE    A augmentedA
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 MajorD        E MajorE    A augmentedA
*(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 MajorD	      E MajorE	   F# minorF#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.