Christine Cifras

Song: Christine
Artist: Siouxsie and the Banshees
Composers: Siouxsie Siuox and Steve Severin
Album: Kaleidoscope
 
Tabbed by DJ   28h Oct 2022
 
To hear the song, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtt_0OKzRek
 
DROPPED TUNING: D-G-C-F-A-D
The song will then sound in the key of D
 
De-tune all strings two steps below standard tuning.
Using a chromatic tuner makes this a bit easier.
The song is played in E on guitar, but, with the
full tone dropped tuning, the song will then sound
in the key of D. Note the bottom D string will be
quite slack and may need more frequent adjustment
to stay in tune during repeated practising.
 
I'm confident these are the chords the band plays,
but in the 2nd and last lines of the Choruses they
are quite dissonant and it takes quite a bit of
confidence to sing the melody line across them.
 
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
options for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers.
 
 
[Intro and Verses]        [Choruses]
Dmadd9/F = 1-0-3-2-3-0    E5      = 0-7-9-9-0-0
F5       = 1-3-3-x-x-x    Em7     = 0-10-12-12-0-0
E5 *     = 0-2-2-x-x-x    E6sus2  = 0-9-11-11-0-0
                          E6      = 0-4-6-6-0-0
                          E7sus4  = 0-5-7-7-0-0
 
[Bridge]                  [Final Break and Coda]
B5 = 7-9-9-x-x-x          Dmadd9/F = 1-0-3-2-3-0
E5 = 0-7-9-9-0-0          E5       = 0-7-9-9-0-0
                          EM7(no3) = 0-7-9-8-0-0
 
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[Intro]
  Dmadd9/F
|  /  /  /  /  |
 
   F5                  E5 *
|  /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/  |  /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/  |
 
   F5                  E5 *
|  /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/  |  /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/  |
 
  Dmadd9/F     E5 *         Dmadd9/F     E5 *
| /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / | /  /  /  / |
 
[Verse 1]
    Dmadd9/F                     E5 *
She tries not to shatter, kale - idoscope style,
         Dmadd9/F           E5 *
Person - ality changes be - hind her red smile,
Dmadd9/F                   E5 *
Every new problem brings a stranger inside,
Dmadd9/F               E5 *
Helplessly forcing one more new disguise
 
[Chorus]
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,
        E6  E7sus4      E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine,   ...ba - nana split lady,
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,
        E6  E7sus4         E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine   ...sees her faces un - furl
 
[Break]
     Dmadd9/F       E5 *
||:  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  :|| [x4]
 
[Verse 2]
Dmadd9/F              E5 *
Singing sweet savages lost in our world,
     Dmadd9/F               E5 *
This big eyed girl sees her faces unfurl,
Dmadd9/F             E5 *
Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle,
Dmadd9/F         E5 *
           Dis - integrating
 
[Chorus]
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,
        E6  E7sus4      E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine,   ...ba - nana split lady,
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,
        E6  E7sus4         E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine   ...sees her faces un - furl
 
[Bridge]
   B5             E5
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |
 
B5          E5    B5          E5    B5          E5
Oo---, oo - oo!   Oo---, oo - oo!   Oo---, oo - oo!
 
[Verse 3]
Dmadd9/F             E5 *
Oo---------------oo, oo!
Dmadd9/F             E5 *
Now she's in purple, now she's a turtle,
Dmadd9/F         E5 *
           Dis - integrating,
        Dmadd9/F   E5 *          Dmadd9/F   E5 *
Chris - tine,            Chris - tine
 
   Dmadd9/F       E5 *
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |
 
[Chorus]
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,
        E6  E7sus4      E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine,   ...ba - nana split lady,
        E5            Em7        E6sus2
Chris - tine,  ...the strawberry girl,
        E6  E7sus4         E6         E7sus4
Chris - tine   ...sees her faces un - furl
 
[Break]
    Dmadd9/F       E5    EM7(no3)
||: /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /   :|| [x4]
 
[Coda]
      Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Chris-tine,               Chris-tine,
      Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Chris-tine,               Chris-tine,
Dmadd9/F        E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Twenty two faces------------------------------------,
     Dmadd9/F   E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Dis- integrating------------------------------------!
 
      Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Chris-tine,               Chris-tine,
     Dmadd9/F   E5 EM7(no3)     Dmadd9/F  E5 EM7(no3)
Dis- integrating------------------------------------!
 
    Dmadd9/F       E5    EM7(no3)         Dmadd9/F
||: /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  :|| [x2]
 
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SONG FACTS
The song is inspired by a book about a woman named
Chris Costner Sizemore who was diagnosed with D.I.D.
after she witnessed two deaths and a horrible
accident within three months of each other.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously called
Multiple Personality Disorder) is when a traumatic
event, usually experienced as a child, causes someone
to develop individual personas (or 'alters') to deal
with different situations in life.
There was a movie, 'The Three Faces of Eve', released
in 1957, which was based on her experiences, but was
exaggerated for dramatic effect. This song was
inspired by Christine's struggle with the production
of the movie which had misrepresented her, how she
felt she had been exploited and her rights violated.
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