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Babylon Sisters by Steely Dan - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            BABYLON SISTERS

Transcription and chart
Peter Kruger


[Intro]

|Gb5     |       |B        |Ab7      |E         |Abm7    |

|Ebmadd9 Ebsus4  |Ebmadd9 Ebsus4    | 

|Gb5     |B      |Ab7      |B       |E F#/E   |   A7-5    |

|Ebmadd9 Ebsus4  |Ebmadd9 Ebsus4  |

|E F#/E   |      A7-5   |Ebmadd9 Ebsus4     |Ebmadd9 Ebsus4|Bb7sus4 . . ..

[Verse 1]         
                                  
              Cm7           Eb13
Drive west on Sunset to the sea
                 Dbmaj9        
Turn that jungle music down
Ab13                  Gbmaj13      Bbm7
     Just until we're out of town
           Cm7       G7sus4/D
This is no one night stand
               Bbm7
It's a real oc casion
                           Cm7
Close your eyes and you'll be there
     Eb/F            Bbmaj7
It's everything they say
    E7-5             Ebmaj13
The end of a perfect day
        A7+5+9                 Dm7
Distant lights from across the bay

[Chorus]

                Eb    F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
Dm7                   Eb    F/Eb
      Babylon sisters shake it
C9             F13
    So fine so young
Bbmaj7          Bbm7   Eb9    
Tell me I'm the only   one
                        ^ ^                   ^   ^           ^     ^    ^ 
|Dm7       |C9       |Eb F/Eb     |         |B/E Gb/E      |Db/Gb Ab/Gb Bb7-9|

Ebm7            Db6             
Here come those Santa Ana winds

  |Bmaj7  B7    |E6/9    A7-5    |
 a gain
  |Ebm7        |Ebm9     Ebm7    |Ebm7-5   Ebm(maj7)  |Ebm7-5    Ebsus4|Bb7sus4           
 
[Verse2]
               Cm7              Eb13
We'll jog with show folk on the sand
                          Dbmaj7                                        
       Drink kirschwasser from a shell
Ab13                Gbmaj13        Bbm7
      San Francisco show and tell
              Cm7     G7sus4/D
Well I should know by now
                 Bbm7   Eb/Bb  
That it's just a spasm
       Fm/Bb     Cm7
Like a Sunday in T.J.
          Eb/F               Bbmaj9
That it's cheap but it's not free
         E7-5               Ebmaj7
That I'm not what I used to be
         A7+5+9                Dm
And that love's not a game for three

[Chorus]
        Dm7     Eb    F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
Dm7                 Eb    F/Eb
    Babylon sisters shake it
C9            F13
   So fine so young
Bbmaj7          Bbm7  Eb9          
Tell me I'm the only  one
                     ^ ^                 ^   ^            ^     ^    ^ 
|Dm7      |C9     |Eb F/Eb    |        |B/E Gb/E       |Db/Gb Ab/Gb Bb7-9|

Ebm7            Db6             
Here come those Santa Ana winds

   |Bmaj7  B7     |E6/9 A7-5    |Bbm7      |Cm7      |Eb13        | % |
 a gain
   |Dbmaj9        |Ab13         |Gbmaj9    |Bbm7     |               |
                                                           My friends say
 Cm7      G7sus4/D  
 no don't go
                Bbm7    Eb/Bb  
For that cotton candy
           Fm/Bb        Cm7
Son you're playing with fire
    F11               Bbmaj7
The kid will live and learn
      E7-9                Ebmaj13
As he watches his bridges burn
         A7+5+9         Dm7
From the point of no re turn

[Chorus]
                Eb    F/Eb
Babylon sisters shake it
Dm7                   Eb    F/Eb
      Babylon sisters shake it
C9             F13
    So fine so young
Bbmaj7          Bbm7   Eb9    
Tell me I'm the only   one

[Coda]


|Dm7        |        |Eb F/Eb      |           |

|Dm7        |        |G/F Fmaj7    | Ebmaj7    |

|Dm7        |        |Eb F/Eb      |   Ab7-5   | 

|Dm7        |        |G/F Fmaj7    |   Ebmaj7  | 


|Dm7       |        |Eb F/Eb
                             You got to shake it baby you got to
                               Ab7-5                 
                      Shake it baby you got to shake
Dm7        |        |G/F Fmaj7    |   Ebmaj7    |
Shake it
|Dm7       |        |Eb F/Eb
                             You got to shake it baby you got to
                               Ab7-5                 
                      Shake it baby you got to shake it


Repeat 
        

We also have 25 songs by Steely Dan

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• Any Major Dude Will Tell You
• Babylon Sisters
• Black Cow
• Black Friday
• Deacon Blues
• Dirty Work
• Do It Again
• Dont Take Me Alive
• Fire In The Hole
• Gaucho
• Haitian Divorce
• Hey Nineteen
• Home At Last
• Josie
• Kid Charlemagne
• Midnight Cruiser
• My Old School
• Only A Fool Would Say That
• Pearl Of The Quarter
• Peg
• Pretzel Logic
• Reelin In The Years
• Rikki Dont Lose That Number
• The Caves Of Altamira

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