The Rolling Stones

Sympathy for the Devil

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Please allow me to introduce myself
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I'm a man of wealth and taste
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I've been around for a long, long year
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Stole many a man's soul and faith

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And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
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Had his moment of doubt and pain
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Made damn sure that Pilate
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Washed his hands and sealed his fate

      B
    Pleased to meet you
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    Hope you guess my name
                B
    But what's puzzling you
            A            E
    Is the nature of my game

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I stuck around St. Petersburg
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When I saw it was a time for a change
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Killed the Czar and his ministers
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Anastasia screamed in vain

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I rode a tank
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Held a general's rank
           A
When the Blitzkrieg raged
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And the bodies stank

      B
    Pleased to meet you
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    Hope you guess my name
                B
    But what's puzzling you
            A            E
    Is the nature of my game

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I watched with glee
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While your kings and queens
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Fought for ten decades
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For the Gods they made

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I shouted out
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"Who killed the Kennedys?"
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When after all
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It was you and me

 E                  D
Let me please introduce myself
       A                 E
I'm a man of wealth and taste
                       D
And I laid traps for troubadours
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Who get killed before they reached Bombay

      B
    Pleased to meet you
                       E
    Hope you guess my name
                B
    But what's puzzling you
            A            E
    Is the nature of my game
       E
    Oh yeah, get down, baby

      B
    Pleased to meet you
                       E
    Hope you guess my name
                B
    But what's puzzling you
            A            E
    Is the nature of my game

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Just as every cop is a criminal
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And all the sinners saints
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As heads is tails
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Just call me Lucifer
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'Cause I'm in need of some restraint

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So if you meet me
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Have some courtesy
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Have some sympathy, and some taste
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Use all your well-learned politesse
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Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah

      B
    Pleased to meet you
                       E
    Hope you guess my name
                B
    But what's puzzling you
            A            E
    Is the nature of my game
        E
    Um baby, get down

 E
Woo, who
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Oh yeah, get on down
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Oh yeah
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Oh yeah!
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Tell me baby, what's my name
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Tell me honey, baby guess my name
         A
Tell me baby, what's my name
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I tell you one time, you're to blame
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Ooo, who
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Ooo, who
       A
Ooo, who
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Ooo, who, who
       E
Ooo, who, who
       D
Ooo, who, who
       A
Ooo, who, who
    E
Oh, yeah
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What's my name
          D
Tell me, baby, what's my name
           A
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name
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Ooo, who, who
       E
Ooo, who, who
       D
Ooo, who, who
       A
Ooo, who, who
       E
Ooo, who, who