Backstreet Girl bass tab by The Rolling Stones

BACKSTREET GIRL (Bassline)

As recorded by The Rolling Stones
(From the 1967 Album FLOWERS)

Words and Music by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

Transcribed by Slowhand


Gtr I (E A D G) - 'Bill Wyman - Bass'


  Intro
  Q=154
  3/4
  Gtr I
  H.    H.    H.    H.
||----------|---------|---------|-------|
||o---------|---------|---------|-------|
||o---------|---------|---------|-------|
||--3-------|-3-------|-3-------|-3-----|

 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|--------||
|---------|---------|---------|-------o||
|-5-------|-3-------|---------|-------o||
|---------|---------|-3-------|-3------||


  1st - 4th Verses
  $
  $$
  H.    H.    H.    H.
||----------|---------|---------|-------|
||o---------|---------|---------|-------|
||o---------|---------|---------|-------|
||--3-------|-3-------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-5-------|-3-------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-3-------|-3-------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------||
|---------|---------|---------|-------||
|-5-------|-3-------|---------|-------||
|---------|---------|-3-------|-3-----||


 Pre-Chorus
 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-7-------|-6-------|-7-------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-5-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|-3-------|-5-------|-------|
|-7-------|---------|---------|-5-----|


 H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|-------||
|---------|---------|-------||
|---------|-5-------|-5-----||
|-5-------|---------|-------||


 Chorus
 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-5-------|-5-------|-5-------|-5-----|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|


           1.
    To Coda
    To Coda
 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-5-------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|-5-------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-3-------|-3-------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|--------||
|---------|---------|---------|-------o||
|-5-------|-3-------|---------|-------o||
|---------|---------|-3-------|-3------||


 2.
  D.S. al Coda D.S.S. al Dbl. Coda
 H.    H.     H.    H.
|---------|---------||---------|--------||
|---------|---------||---------|--------||
|---------|---------||---------|--------||
|-3-------|-3-------||-3-------|-3------||


           Outro
 &&
 H.    H.     H.    H.
|---------|---------||---------|-------|
|---------|---------||---------|-------|
|---------|---------||---------|-------|
|-3-------|-3-------||-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|-5-----|
|-3-------|-3-------|-------|


      H.=H
 H.    H.    Q H   +H.
|---------|---------|---------|--------*|
|---------|---------|---------|--------*|
|-3-------|---------|---------|--------*|
|---------|-3-------|-3--3----|-(3)----*|


Duration 🏷Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature 🏷Legend
----------------
 h  - hammer-on
 p  - pull-off
 b  - bend
 pb - pre-bend
 r  - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
 /\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
 s  - legato slide
 S  - shift slide
 - natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
 ~  - vibrato
 tr - trill
 T  - tap
 TP - trem. picking
 PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
 \n - tremolo bar down
 n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
 =  - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
 <> - volume swell (louder/softer)
 x  - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
 o  - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc 🏷Legend
-----------
 | - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
 : - bar (freetime)
 $ - Segno
 & - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths




I don't want you to be high
I don't want you to be down
Don't want to tell you no lie
Just want you to be around

Please come right up to my ears
You will be able to hear what I say

Don't want you out in my world
Just you be my backstreet girl

Please don't be part of my life
Please keep yourself to yourself
Please don't you bother my wife
That way you won't get no help

Don't try to ride on my horse
You're rather common and coarse anyway

Don't want you out in my world
Just you be my backstreet girl

Please don't you call me at home
Please don't come knocking at night
Please never ring on the phone
Your manners are never quite right

Please take the favors I grant
Curtsy and look nonchalant, just for me

Don't want you part of my world