Kiss | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| E9 N.C | A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 N.C |
Uh!
Verse 1
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
You don’t have to be beautiful to turn me on.
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
I just need your body, baby, from dusk ’til dawn.
| D9 | D9 | D9 | D9 |
You don’t need experience to turn me out.
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
You just leave it all up to me, I’m gonna show you what it’s all about.
| E7 | E7 | D7 | D7 |
You don’t have to be rich to be my girl, you don’t have to be cool to rule my world.
| E7 | E7 | D7 | E9 N.C |
Ain’t no particular sign I’m more compatible with, I just want your extra time and your, kiss.
Instrumental 1
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 N.C |
Ah, uh-huh.
Verse 2
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
You gotta not talk dirty, baby. Mm, and if you wanna impress me (uh, ah, ah).
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
You can’t be too flirty, mama, I know how to undress me, yeah.
| D9 | D9 | D9 | D9 |
I want to be your fantasy, maybe you could be mine.
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
You just leave it all up to me, we could have a good time, uh.
| E7 | E7 | D7 | D7 |
You don’t have to be rich to be my girl, you don’t have to be cool to rule my world.
| E7 | E7 | D7 | E9 N.C |
Ain’t no particular sign I’m more compatible with, I just want your extra time and your, kiss.
Instrumental 2
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 N.C |
Yes, ah, ah, ah, ah, oh, ah. Ah, I think I wanna dance.
Solo
| A7 | A7 A6 | A7 A6 | A7 A6 | A7 | A7 A6 | A7 A6 | A7 A6 |
Uh, woo! Gotta, gotta, oh. Little Girl Wendy’s Parade.
| D9 | D9 | D9 | D9 | A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 N.C |
Gotta, gotta, gotta.
Verse 3
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
Women not girls rule my world, I said they rule my world.
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
Act you age, mama, not your shoe size and maybe we could do the twirl?
| D9 | D9 | D9 | D9 |
You don’t have to watch Dynasty, to have an attitude, uh.
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
You just leave it up to me, my love will be your food, yeah.
| E9 | E9 | D9 | D9 |
You don’t have to be rich to be my girl, you don’t have to be cool to rule my world.
| E9 | E9 | D9 | E9 N.C |
Ain’t no particular sign I’m more compatible with, I just want your extra time and your, kiss.
Outro
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 | to fade
Kiss chords, progressions, and TAB
Similar to Mustang Sally in both chord structure and popularity on the cover band’s emergency setlist, Kiss is a blues format tune that stretches over 24 bars, rather than 12. The chords move like this:
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
| D9 | D9 | D9 | D9 | A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 |
| E7 | E7 | D7 | D7 | E7 | E7 | D7 | E9 |
This is then followed by a re-intro of another four bars, like this:
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 N.C |
The final verse works best with 9 chords for both chords IV and V (E9 – D9).
Talking about 9 chords, when you go to chord IV after chord I, it does for some reason sound best as a 9 chord, not a dom7.
These would be the traditional “James Brown 9 chords”. For the intro and end of verse E9, we use a shape unique to Kiss built on the upper part of an E shape. These 9 chords look like this in TAB:
For verse 3’s final turnaround, Prince plays the Kiss signature 9 chords over the turnaround as constant 16th notes, reminiscent of Curtis Mayfield’s classic Move On Up, which looks like this in TAB.
On a final note, the solo is played using a G shape for the A7 – A6 movement.
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Prince
Prince released his debut in 1978 and followed it up with a new studio album almost every year until 2015.
His best tunes include Kiss, Purple Rain, I Feel For You, 1999, Let’s Go Crazy, Little Red Corvette, Cream, Sign ‘O’ The Times, and Alphabet St.
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