Key: C
Introduction: C F C F C F G Bb
C F C F C F Bb
1. If you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop.
C F C F C F Bb
If you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop.
C F C F C F
I've been running hot, you got me rifting,
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gonna blow my top,
C F C F C F Bb
if you start me up, if you start me up, I'll never stop.
C F
You make a grown man cry,
C F Eb D C
you make a grown man cry,
C F Eb D C
you make a grown man cry!
C F/C C F/C C
Spread out the oil, the gasoline,
C
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine.
C F C F C F Bb
2. Start it up, kick on the starter give it all you got,
C F C F C F Bb
I can't compete with the riders in the other seats.
C F C F C F Bb
If you rough it up, if you like it you can slide it up, slide it up
C F
Don't make a grown man cry,
C F Eb D C
don't make a grown man cry,
C F Eb D C
don't make a grown man cry !
C F/C C F/C C
My eyes dilate, my lips go green,
C
my hands are greasy, she's a mean, mean machine.
C F C F C F Bb
3. Start me up, AHHH give it all you got !
C F C F C F Bb
Start it up, never, never slide it up !
C F
You make a grown man cry,
C F Eb D C
you make a grown man cry,
C F Eb D C
you make a grown man cry !
C F/C C F/C C
Ride like the wind at double speed,
C
I'll take you places that you've never, never seen.
C F C F C F Bb
4. Start it up, love the day when we will never stop !
C F C F C F Bb
Tough me up, t,t,t,t, never stop !
C F
You, you, you make a grown man cry !
C F C F C F Bb
You, you, you make a dead man come !!
C F C F C F Bb
You, you, you make a dead man come !