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Song title:       Sexual Healing
Original Album:   Midnight Love
Other Album:      Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge Vol. 2
                  (for Neil Finn's cover)

Words and Music by Marvin Gaye / Odell Brown / David Ritz
Copyright © 1982 Columbia Records
Published by UMG

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Neil Finn performed this on Sydney DJ Andrew Denton's TripleM radio show
in 2001 as a "Musical Challenge". The transcription is of that performance.
For a version on acoustic guitar, this is as good as anything you'll find.

Guitar Figure 1 is played in the INTRO, VERSEs and CHORUSes.
Listen closely to the song to get the tempo and strumming. Timing is 4/4.


Key to tab
----------
h  - hammer-on
p  - pull-off
/  - slide up
\  - slide down
x  - muted note
_  - tied note


rallentando  - a gradual decrease of speed




INTRO:


[play: Guitar Figure 1]  [x2]


Guitar Figure 1

  G           Am                    F               C
|-3____---3---0---0---0---0-0-0__-|-1____---1-1__---0---0---0-0-0---|
|-0____---0---1---1---1---1-1-1__-|-1____---1-1__---1---1---1-1-1---|
|-0____---0---2---2---2---2-2-2__-|-2____---2-2__---0---0---0-0-0---|
|-0____---0---2---2---2---2-2-2__-|-3____---3-3__---2---2---2-2-2---|
|-2____---2---0---0---0---0-0-0__-|-3____---3-3__---3---3---3-3-3---|
|-3____---3-----------------------|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |




VERSE1:
Notes:
Guitar Figure 1 is played for the G-Am-F-C transitions.

Chords:
G   320003    F  x33211
Am  x02210    C  x32010


| G  Am  | F       C               | G     Am            | F      C  
     Ba____by, I'm hot just like an  oven,    I need some  lovin'...

| G  Am  | F   C                   | G       Am            | F            C  
     Ba____by, I can't hold it much  longer.    It's getting stronger and stronger,




CHORUS1:
Notes:
Guitar Figure 1 is played for the G-Am-F-C transitions.

Chords:
G   320003    C   x32010
Am  x02210    Dm  x00231
F   x33211    Em  022000


| G               Am             | F        C  
  When I get that feelin', I want    sexual healin'

| G      Am        | F    C   | G          Am     | F    C  
  Sexual    healing  baby         makes me feel so  fine,

| G            Am      | F    C  
    Helps to relieve my  mind

| G      Am        | F          C   
  Sexual    healing, baby, it's good for me

| G      Am           | Dm        Em        F    G  | C
  Sexual    healing is  something    that's good for  me.




BRIDGE:
Chords:
C   x32010    Em     x79987              G   320003
E   022100    F(II)  x8 10 10 10 8       Am  x02210
F   x33211    G(II)  x 10 12 12 12 10
Dm  x57765    C(II)  8 10 10 988


| C                           | E
  Whenever blue tear-drops are  fallin',

| F                      | Dm    Em    F(II)   G(II) | C(II)  
    And my emotional sta - bili -ty is leaving         me,

| C                   | E
    There is something  I can do:

     | F                       | Dm   Em      F(II)  G(II)
I can  get on the telephone and  call you up, baby,

| C(II)                    | E
    Honey I know, you'll be  there to relieve me,

| F             | Dm         
    The love you  give to me will free me

| C                                    | E
    If you don't know the things you're  dealin'

| F                               | Dm   Em   F(II)   G(II)
  I can tell you darlin' that it's     sexual healing 

| G                 Am            | F                 C  
    Get up, get up, get up, get up, let's make love tonight,

| G                   Am               | F               C  
    Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, 'cause you do it right.




VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
G   320003    F  x33211
Am  x02210    C  x32010


| G   Am  | F   C               | G        Am          | F           C  
      Ba____by, I  got sick this  morning,    a sea was  storming, inside of me

| G   Am  | F         C              | G       Am              | F          C  
      Ba____by, well, I  think I'm cap-sizin',    the waves are  rising and rising, 




CHORUS2:
Notes:
Play as for CHORUS1.

Chords:
G   320003    C   x32010    F(II)  x8 10 10 10 8
Am  x02210    Dm  x57765    G(II)  x 10 12 12 12 10
F   x33211    Em  x79987    C(II)  8 10 10 988


   | G               Am             | F        C  
And  when I get that feeling, I want    sexual healing

| G      Am         | F        C  
  Sexual    healing,  baby, is good for me,

| G          Am     | F          C  
    Makes me feel so  fine, it's such a rush

| G            Am      | F          C  
    Helps to relieve my  mind, it's good for us

| G      Am        | F        C  
  Sexual    healing  baby, is good for me

                                           [<---rallentando--->]
| G      Am           | Dm        Em        F(II) G(II) | C(II)  
  Sexual    healing is  something    that's good  for     me.


[end on arpeggioed C]