Lyr/Chords Req: Dead Flowers

Subject: Dead Flowers
From:
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 06:30 PM

Its a song I like recorded by the Good Brothers in ?1970s? I think it was first done by the Rolling Stones. Anybody have chords/lyrics?

Thanks,

Al

Subject: RE: Dead Flowers
From: Biskit
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 07:39 PM

When you’re sittin' there in your silver upholstered chair,
Talkin' to some rich folks that you know,
I hope you don't see me in my ragged company.
You know, I could never be alone.

CHORUS: So take me down, little Suzy. Take me down.
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every mornin'.
Send me dead flowers by the mail.
Send me dead flowers to my weddin',
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave.

When you’re sittin' back in your rose-pink Cadillac,
Makin' bets on Kentucky derby day,
I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon,
And another girl to take my pain away. CHORUS

Now I don't know exactly how the stones did it but I play it in the key of G.

Subject: RE: Dead Flowers
From: Mooh
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 09:55 PM

I do it in D, as I think the Stones did, or at least it was in D in the unauthorized biography. Great song, by the by.

Subject: RE: Dead Flowers
From: Mooh
Date: 15 Mar 00 - 09:57 PM

As above, but I think it's "silk upholstered chair". Cheers.

Subject: LYR.ADD.:: Dead Flowers
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 04:48 PM

Here's a more accessible posting of this nostalgic song (copy and paste into WORD/TIMES/12 for chord matching):

Dead Flowers

(As sung by Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones)

D-------------------A--------------G------------------D
When your sittin' there in your silk upholstered chair,
-------------------A--------------------G/D
Talkin' to some rich folks that you know,
-------------------------A--------------G--------------D
I hope you won't see me in my rag-ged com-pa-ny,
-------------------------------A--------G/D
For you know, I could ne-ver be a-lone.

Chorus:

D------------A------------------------------D
So take me down, little Suzy, take me down,
--A-------------------------------------------------D
I know you think you're the queen of the un-derground;
----------------G--------------------------------D
And you can send me dead flowers every mornin',
G---------------------------------D
Send me dead flowers by the mail,
G--------------------------------------D
Send me dead flowers to my wed-din',
------------------------------A---------------G/D
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave.

When you're sittin' back in your rose-pink Cadillac,
Makin' bets on Kentucky Derby Day,
I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon,
And another girl to take my pain away. (CHO2X)

This was the favorite song of one of my old Michigan singing buddies by the name of Clover. Wonder what he's doing now?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Dead Flowers
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 04:55 PM

They wrote some beauties, this is one of them.

Subject: RE: Dead Flowers
From: alanabit
Date: 16 Apr 03 - 09:10 AM

I like this one a lot. It originally followed "Sister Morphine" (which oddly enough is not a drug song, but about someone dying in agony after an accident). In its context on the Sticky Fingers album, the placing of this cheerful ditty about heroin abuse is in monumental bad taste. You have to be a Stones fan to like that sort of thing. And I am!

Subject: RE: Dead Flowers
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Apr 03 - 09:55 AM

It's a song which you sing with great spirit knowing full well that you will never succumb to drugs, alcohol, disease, infidelity, or even hangnails. Someone else will, but not you and your buddies.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Dead Flowers
From: GUEST,Bartholomew
Date: 16 Apr 03 - 09:56 AM

My Bass Player, Mr. Michael Kueffer, used to sing it "I'll be in my basement room with my Wheaties and a spoon" with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Can't have those nasty drug references now, can we?



Have nice day

Bart

Subject: RE: Dead Flowers
From: lamarca
Date: 16 Apr 03 - 10:27 AM

I love the version sung by Townes Van Zandt - it's on one of his live albums, and was included in the soundtrack for The Big Lebowski.