Love Potion No 9

"Love Potion Number Nine"

(Leiber/Stoller)

Verse 1:

I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth

You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth

She's got a pad down at 34th and Vine

Sellin' little bottles of

Love Potion Number Nine

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"

She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink

She said "I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink"

It smelled like turpentine and looked like India ink

I held 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

Coda:

Love Potion Number Nine

Love Potion Number Nine

[hold] --single notes--

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