Superstition - Stevie Wonder

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Song: Superstition
Artist: Stevie Wonder
Composer: Stevie Wonder
Album: Talking book

Tabbed by DJ  2nd April 2016

To hear the track, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftdZ363R9kQ

DROPPED TUNING
DE-TUNE ALL ST
D#-G#-C#-F#-A#
The song will 

: 
RINGS down a s
-d#
then sound in 

emi-tone to
the original r

ecorded key of

 Ebm

Using a chromatic tuner makes it easier to get this
tuning more accurate

Palm mute the bridge for an extra funky feel

Please IGNORE ANY POP-UP CHORD BOXES the website might
automatically suggest and use the typed chord shapes in the
chord legend below.

Chords are all named as if still in standard tuning:
  = 075700         = x35353       = x21203
() = x02020      = x10130     = 022002
   = x24242     = x02030     *   = x02223

h = hammer-on    N.C. = No chords

NOTE: The verses are played as a continuous Em7 chord riff
but the optional (A7) is just shown as a suggestion to make a
single rhythm guitar a bit more interesting if you don't have
the riff as an accompaniment.
Keyboard players can use the transpose function set to (-1)
to display chords in Eb, and just ignore the A7's.

Please take a second to scroll down to the bottom of the page
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[Intro]
d# |----------
A# |----------
F# |----------
C# |----------
G# |-------5-7
D# |--5-h7----

--|
--|
--|
--|
--|
--|

[Clavinet Riff
          (
d# |----------
A# |----------
F# |----------
C# |----------
G# |----7-5-7-
D# |--0-------

]
           
--------------
--------------
--------------
-5------------
-----7---5-h7-
--------------

         (
-|------------
-|------------
-|------------
-|-----------5
-|------5-7---
-|--5-7-------


----------|[x4]
----------|
----------|
----------|
-------5--|
--5-h7----|

[Verse 1]
(         
Very super - s

    ( 
titious,      

 (         
  writing's on

       (
 the wall,
 (      
    Very super

       (
 - stitious,  

  (     
     ladder's 

           (
'bout to fall,
 (      
    Thirteen m

          (
onth old baby-

  (  
---,     broke

             
 the looking g

  (
lass---,
 (      
    Seven year

           
s of bad luck-

(
----,
     (  
    The good t

              
hings in your 

  (    (
past

[Chorus]
              
When you be - 

       
lieve in thing

s...
            
...That you do

            
n't under - st

          
and then you s


uffer,
       
   ...Supersti

              
tion ain't the

  (     
 way,    yeh -

     (    (
e -yeh!

[Verse 2]
     (  
    Oo, very s

           
uper - stitiou

 (  (
s----,     was

              
h your face an

    (
d hands,
 (      
    Rid me of 

         (
the problem---

      (
--,     do all

)          (
 that you can,
 (      
    Keep me in

         (
 a daydream---

   (  
-,       keep 

           
me going stron

 (
g,
 (      
     You don't

           
 wanna save me

   (
------,
 (      
     Sad is my

   (    (
 song------

[Chorus]
              
When you be - 

       
lieve in thing

s...
            
...You don't u

         
nder - stand t

        
hen you suffer

,
       
    ...Superst

              
ition ain't th

   (
e way,
           
Yeh -e -yeh, y

   (    (     (
eh!

[Bridge]
          
| /  /  /  / |

       
 /  /  /  / | 

     
 Ah-----------


---!   Ow!

[Riff]
          (
d# |----------
A# |----------
F# |----------
C# |----------
G# |----7-5-7-
D# |--0-------

           
--------------
--------------
--------------
-5------------
-----7---5-h7-
--------------

         (
-|------------
-|------------
-|------------
-|-----------5
-|------5-7---
-|--5-7-------


----------|[x2]
----------|
----------|
----------|
-------5--|
--5-h7----|

[Verse 3]
(          
 Very super - 

     (  
stitious-----,

  (     
      nothing 

         (
more to say,
  (     
      Very sup

          (
er - stitious,

     (
        The De

)            
vil's on his w

 (
ay,
 (      
     Thirteen 

           
month old baby

 (  (
, hmm      bro

              
ke the looking

   (
 glass,
       (
    Seven year

           
s of bad luck-

(
----,
     (  
    The good t

              
hings in your 

   (    
past!      Umm

    (
 -hum!

[Chorus]
              
When you be - 

       
lieve in thing

s...
            
...That you do

            
n't under - st

          
and then you s


uffer,
      
     ...Supers

              
tition ain't t

     (      (
he way------,
         (
No, no no!

     (

[Horn riff]
    * 
|  /  /  /  / 

      
 |  /  /  /  /

      
  |  /  /  /  

*     
/  |  /  /  / 

 /  |

[Coda - Repeat
          (
d# |----------
A# |----------
F# |----------
C# |----------
G# |----7-5-7-
D# |--0-------

 Riff]
           
--------------
--------------
--------------
-5------------
-----7---5-h7-
--------------

         (
-|------------
-|------------
-|------------
-|-----------5
-|------5-7---
-|--5-7-------


----------|
----------|
----------|
----------|
-------5--|
--5-h7----|

[Suggestion fo
       
d# |----0-----
A# |----0-----
F# |----7-----
C# |----5-----
G# |----7-----
D# |----0-----

r Ending]
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