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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:50:27 -0500 From: Andrew Rogers Subject: ./s/searchers/love_potion_no_9.crd "Love Potion Number Nine" (Leiber/Stoller) [Verse 1]

^AmI took my troubles down to M^Dmadame Ruth ^AmYou know that gypsy with the g^Dmold-capped tooth ^CShe's got a pad down at 34th and V^Amine ^DmSellin' little bottles of ^ELove Potion Number N^Amine

[Verse 2] I told her that I was a flop with chicks I'd been this way since 1956 She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign She said "What you need is Love Potion Number Nine" [Bridge]

She b^Dment down and turned around and gave me a wink She s^B7aid "I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink" It s^Dmmelled like turpentine and looked like India ink I h^Eeld my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

[Verse 3] I didn't know if it was day or night I started kissin' everything in sight But when I kissed the cop down at 34th and Vine He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine [repeat bridge, first three lines instrumentally] [repeat verse 3] Coda:

^DmLove Potion Number N^Amine ^DmLove Potion Number N^Amine ^Dm [hold] ^A--si^Bngle^A not^Ges-- ^Am Love Potion Number Nine

Notes: 1) on the first verse, slide chromatically to the Am and Dm 2) this is the Searchers' version; the Clovers' original used somewhat different chord changes (and had a final verse about "Love Potion Number Ten") -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

The Searchers - Love potion no 9