Cissy Strut The Meters backing track and tabs

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Cissy Strut
The Meters
From The Meters' eponymous 1969 Album
Tabbed by Leo
(Please email leeroybrun@hotmail.com for corrections, or if you want
to see more Funk/Soul guitar tabs on the web - I find them thin on the
ground, and frequently inaccurate).

["Verse" Riff x 4]
e|------------------|--------------6-6---5-5--|
B|------------------|--------------6-6---6-6--|
G|---5-3-0----------|--------------7-7---5-5--|
D|----------1(b)----|-------------------------|
A|--------------3---|--1-3--1--3--------------|
E|------------------|-------------------------|

["Chorus" x 4]
e|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|----------------------------|
D|--10---8--10--8---10---8----|
A|----------------------------|
E|----------------------------|

e|-----------------------------|
B|-----------------------------|
G|-----------------------------|
D|--10---8--10--8--------------|
A|-----------------10----------|
E|----------------------8------|

[Repeat Verse and Chorus]

[Third Verse: C9 chord]
e|---3----3----------------------|
B|---3----3----------------------|
G|---3----3---Improv Rhythm------|
D|---2----2---with palm muting---|
A|---3----3----------------------|
E|-------------------------------|

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Cissy Strut – The Meters
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Tuning: standard

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------5p3---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------5----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------6----3---------------3--3-----------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------33--5---5------------------------------------|

The part in between is

e|----------------6--6-----5---5---------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------6--6-----6---6---------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------7--7-----5---5---------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

The next part is

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------5---------3-5p3--------5-3------5---3—5p3----------------------------|
D|--------------------------------5-----------------------------5----------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------3---------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
LEGEND

| / slide up
| slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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e|-----------------------------------6-6---5-5---|
B|-----------------------------------6-6---6-6---|
G|--5p3------------------------------7-7---5-5---|
D|-------5---------------------------------------|
A|----------6b--3~--------3-----3----------------|
E|------------------3h5------5-------------------|

e|---------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
G|--5-----5--3--5--3----5-----5--3-------------|
D|-----5-------------------5--------5----------|
A|-------------------------------------3~------|
E|---------------------------------------------|

This is the chord that is played during the organ solo
e|---3----|
B|---3----|
G|---3----|
D|---2----|
A|---3----|
E|--------|

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| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
| b Bend
| ~ Vibrato

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