Dr Hook Cover of the Rolling Stone – Lesson on Guitar – Quick Facts
Written by Shel Silverstein, recorded by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show and released on the album, Sloppy Seconds, in 1973.
Guitar Chords, Lyrics, Harmonica Tabs
Cover of the Rolling Stone music and lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and provided for educational purposes and personal use only.
The following is my transcription of my version of this awesome song.
Cover of the Rolling Stone
Verse
A E
A A7 D
E A
Chorus
E A E D A
A
Well we’re big rock singers
We got golden fingers
E
and we’re loved everywhere we go
E
We sing about beauty
and we sing about truth
A
at ten-thousand dollars a show
A
We take all kinds of pills
that give us all kind of thrills
A7 D
but the thrill we’ll never know
E
Is the thrill that’ll getcha
when you get your picture
A
on the cover of the Rollin Stone
Chorus
E
Rolling Stone – Wanna see my picture on the cover
A
Stone – Gonna buy five copies for my mother
E
Stone – Gonna see my smilin’ face
D A
on the cover of the Rolling Stone
I got a freaky ole lady
name a cocaine Katy
who embroideries on my jeans
I got my poor ol’ grey haired daddy
drivin’ my limousine
Now it’s all designed to blow our minds
but our minds won’t really be blown
Like the blow that’ll getcha
when you get your picture
on the cover of the Rollin’ Stone
Chorus
We got a lot of little teenage
blue eyed groupies
who do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian Guru
who’s teaching us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy
so we never have to be alone
And we keep getting richer
but we can’t get our picture
on the cover of the Rollin’ Stone
Video Transcription
Hi. George here. Welcome to this video where I give you a quick and dirty lesson of Dr. Hook’s Cover of the Rolling Stone on guitar.
We’ll go through the guitar chords, strumming pattern and then jam through it.
So the chords are nice and easy. We have 4 chords. It starts off in A. We also play A7, and E, and D.
For the strumming, let me give you a quick example. So what we’re doing there is playing the root and the fifth. For A, play the root or A which is 5th string open and then play the chord. And then we play the 5th which is E, the 6th string open. That kind of idea.
Now for the E, we do the same thing. The root here is E, 6th string open, then we play the 5th which is B and is played on the 5th string 2nd fret with the second finger.
Ok, for D, we’re only going to do this for one measure in the song. It’s D, 4th string open and then A which is 5th string open.
Now to count that, it’s 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4. So we’re giving a little upstroke there as well.
Ok, so that’s the guitar chords and the strumming pattern so let’s just jam this through.
Alright, Dr. Hook’s Cover of the Rolling Stone – that’s how I play it on guitar. I hope you can use that to put that song together and I hope you enjoyed the video. Alright. Have a good day. Peace. See you next time.
Liked your leson.
Nice job man thanks! cant get enough of this song right now
George – this is a really great lesson! Showing the strumming pattern was
great. Thanks so much!
Instead of the bass to chord, you can also play it in a blues shuffle, and
a little faster than this. I’m sure he slowed it down for the lesson
Nice lesson….singing both low and high parts is difficult though….
merci bien , belle chanson et belle leçon !
Hmm, why no harmonica?
I hated this lesson the first time that I saw it, but it’s tough to play anything in the beginning. Thanks man!
God bless you
Wow. That was the best lesson ever. From the nice, slow explanation and strumming pattern to the chords posted in the corner. That was the quickest I have ever learned a song. Thank you very much!
Your good, nice cover
Hey you are really goodman. Great cover and lesson of one of the best fun songs to play. Peace and love brother.
hy georg, the song is crazy, as crazy ;-)) as that group, but I like it. dr hook is very good. I’m looking forward to your number here. have a good day in canada greetings ralf
Hi Ralf. Greetings from Canada. Glad you like this. Dr. Hook recorded some great party songs. Might be time to dust off another one.
Maybe Freaker’s Ball. What do you think?
i like this greetings ralf
I wasn’t really impressed until u began singing. Spot on vocals for this tune.
Glad you liked it. Thanks
Excellent!
Thanks
Super Cover…..nice job…:-)
It’s hard not to have a good time playing old Dr Hook songs.
Glad you enjoyed it and got something out of the lesson.
Keep on rockin.
Cheers, George
Dude not only did I learn something here but had a great time doing it. Great Job Thanks for a really informative lesson.
thanks ,aint heard it in YEARS, love it man ,keep em coming
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Hi. The song is in the key of A. So the scales to play over the various chords are going to be based on the key of A – 3 sharps, F#, C#, and G#.
When playing A, the scale would be A major = A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#.
For the D chord, the scale would be D lydian = D, E, F#, G#, A, B, C#.
And for E or E7, use E mixolydian = E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D.
All scales are build from the A major. Concentrate on the chord tones.
Hope that helps. Cheers
Hello George, great lesson thank you very much! Btw what scale could you use to improvise with this song?
Cheers man. Been thinking of this song for a few days. Lovely job
[..YouTube..] Cheers man. Been thinking of this song for a few days. Lovely job
Thank you very much
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Thanks from Canada. Cheers
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Thanks George. Very good.
[..YouTube..] Thanks George. Very good.
Not quick and dirty, BUT good and clean 🙂
Thanks a lot for this lesson.
greetings from germany
[..YouTube..] Not quick and dirty, BUT good and clean 🙂
Thanks a lot for this lesson.
greetings from germany
[..YouTube..] Not quick and dirty, BUT good and clean 🙂
Thanks a lot for this lesson.
greetings from germany
Thank you for the lesson.
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