If you want the original sound, play on a 5 strings open G tuned guitar, with capo on 3rd fret (it gives you an open Bb). Then play like that: D+-----|-----------|---------------|-------------------|----------------|-//- B+---5-|-6-6-----5-|-6-6---5-5-6-6-|-4---3--4--3-3-4-3-|--3-4-3-3-3-3-5-|-//- G+---5-|-5-5-----5-|-5-5---5-5-5-5-|-3---3--3--3-3-3-3-|--3-3-3-3-3-3-5-|-//- D+---5-|-7-7-----5-|-7-7---5-5-7-7-|-5---3--5--3-3-5-3-|--3-5-3-3-3-3-5-|-//- G+-----|-----------|---------------|-------------------|----------------|-//- And repeat all way down. Intro C/F Bb/Eb (2 times) Verse 1 C/F Bb/Eb If you start me up, if you start me up I?ll never stop. C/F Bb/Eb If you start me up, if you start me up I?ll never stop. C/F Bb/Eb I?ve been running hot, you got me rifting, gonna blow my top. C/F Bb/Eb You can start me up, you can start me up, I?ll never stop, never stop, never stop, never stop. Chorus 1 C F You make a grown man cry, (3 times) C F C F C F/C Spread out the oil, the gasoline, Eb Bb C/F I walk smooth ride in mean, mean machine. Bb/Eb --------------- Start it up. Verse 2 C/F Bb/Eb You can start me up, kick on the starter, give it all you?ve got. (you got, you got) C/F Bb/Eb I can?t compete with the riders in the other heats. C/F Bb/Eb You rough it up, if you like it you can slide it up, Slide it up, slide it up, slide it up. Chorus 2 C F Don?t make a grown man cry, (3 times) C F C F C F/C My eyes dilate, my lips go green, Eb Bb C/F My hands are greasy, she?s a mean, mean machine. Bb/Eb --------------- Start it up. Verse 3 CBb/Eb Start me up. Ah----------- you?ve got to, you?ve got to, never, never, never stop. CBb/Eb Start me up. Ah----------- Start it up. (Never, never.) Chorus 3 C F You make a grown man cry, (3 times) C F C F C F/C Ride like the wind, at double speed, Eb Bb C/F I?ll take you places that you?ve never, never seen. Bb/Eb ---------------------------------- Ending C/F Bb/Eb If you start it up, love the day when we will never stop, never stop, never, never, never stop. CBb/Eb Tough me up, ------------------------------- never, never stop. C/F Bb/Eb You, you, you make a grown man cry. C/F Bb/Eb You, you, you make a dead man come. C/F Bb/Eb You, you, you make a dead man come. C/F Start me up.