{"id":28677,"date":"2026-01-06T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=28677"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:52:00","slug":"start-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/start-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Start me Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
Start me up\r\n \r\n    C<\/span> - F<\/span>    C<\/span> - F<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n \r\n                C<\/span>                                                   F<\/span>\r\n   If you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop.\r\n                C<\/span>                                                   F<\/span>\r\n    If you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop.\r\n                    C<\/span>                                                           F<\/span>\r\n    I've been running hot, you got me rifting, gonna blow my top,\r\n                C<\/span>                                                  F<\/span>\r\n    if you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop.\r\n \r\nG<\/span>                                         C<\/span>    - G<\/span>                                         C<\/span>\r\n    You make a grown man cry,        you make a grown man cry,\r\nG<\/span>                                         C<\/span>\r\n    you make a grown man cry!\r\nG<\/span>\r\n    Spread out the oil, the gasoline,\r\n                                                                       C<\/span>       F<\/span>\r\n    I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n \r\n       C<\/span>                                                    F<\/span>\r\n   Start it up, kick on the starter give it all you got,\r\n        C<\/span>                                                     F<\/span>\r\n    I can't compete with the riders in the other seats.\r\n                C<\/span>                                                F<\/span>\r\n    If you rough it up, if you like it you can slide it up, slide it up\r\nG<\/span>                                           C<\/span>    - G<\/span>                                        C<\/span>\r\n    Don\u2019t make a grown man cry,      don\u2019t make a grown man cry,\r\nG<\/span>                                           C<\/span>\r\n    don\u2019t make a grown man cry !\r\nG<\/span>\r\n    My eyes dilate, my lips go green,\r\n                                                                                     - F<\/span>\r\n    my hands are greasy, she's a mean, mean machine.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n \r\n       C                          F\r\n   Start me up, give it all you got !\r\n       C                                  F\r\n    Start it up, never, never slide it up !\r\nG                                         C    - G                                       C\r\n    You make a grown man cry,       you make a grown man cry,\r\nG                                         C\r\n    you make a grown man cry !\r\nG\r\n    Ride like the wind at double speed,\r\n                                                                            C      - F\r\n    I'll take you places that you've never, never seen.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\n \r\n       C                                                       F\r\n   Start it up, love the day when we will never stop !\r\n       C                   F\r\n    Tough me up, never stop !\r\n      C                                                   F\r\n    You, you, you make a grown man cry !\r\n      C                                          F\r\n    You, you make a dead man cum !\r\n       C                                                 F\r\n    You, you, you make a dead man cum \u2026.\r\n \r\n(orig. = capo 3rd)    (The Rolling Stones)\r\n
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Start me up C – F C – F [Verse 1] C F If you start me up, if you start me up, I’ll never stop. C F If you start me up, if you start me up, I’ll never stop. C F I’ve been running hot, you got me … CLICK TO VIEW SONGStart me Up<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28678,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28677\/revisions\/28678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}