Gun Club: "Promise Me" (from the "Fire Of Love" album)
(note: tune guitar in open E as shown below and play with slide) intro: E F# E F# E F# E 1st = e --------------------------------------------------------- 2nd = B --------------------------------------------------------- 3rd = G# -0-0--0-0--0--2-2--0-0--0-0--0--2-2--0-0--0-0--0--2-2--0- 4th = E -0-0--0-0--0--2-2--0-0--0-0--0--2-2--0-0--0-0--0--2-2--0- 5th = B --------------------------------------------------------- 6th = E --------------------------------------------------------- continue with intro riff at verses where it's noted "E F# E ..."
E F# E
Promise me
E A E F# E F# E
outside in the trees they're waiting tonight
E F# E
promise me
E A E F# E
while the searching light moon has found me
D A E F# E F# E
you know it feels like the very last time again
E
Promise me, someone who will promise me, stand in the dark and fight like me
D A E F# E
through eyes like fireflies
D A E F# E
turn around and tell me, it'll be alright ..... is it alright?
instrumental: 9 times E (first 6 times guitar solo, then 3 times bass and drums only)
at the beginning of the third verse bass and drums only until the guitar slides up to A
E F# E
Promise me
E A E F# E F# E
don't cheat my soul when it returns to me
E F# E
promise me
E A E F# E
give me the vision I was born to see
D A E
you know it feels like years since they burned me away
D A E
you know it feels like years since they burned my heart away
D A E
yeah, it feels like years, feels like years
D A E
it feels like years since they took my eyes away