Kiss chords


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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 (E9D9).

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:

Kiss chords E9 intro TAB
How to play Kiss chords | E9 intro chord

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.

Kiss chords and TAB turnaround
How to play Kiss chords | Verse 3 turnaround

On a final note, the solo is played using a G shape for the A7 – A6 movement.


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Kiss – 5 similar tunes

When you can play Kiss chords, try these five tunes from the song book.

Prince

Find out more about Prince, the man who wrote Kiss chords.

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.

Prince tunes.


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