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Suspicious Minds

(Mark James)


Copyright Press Music Company

Original by Mark James in 1968


RCA studio session - January 23, 1969 - American Studios - Memphis

 January 23, 4-7 am

XPA5 1227-08

XPA5 1227-na - Harmony vocal overdub


Overdub session for RCA studio - January 23, 1969 - American Studios - Memphis

 XPA5 1227-08 - Backup overdub


Overdub session for RCA - May 7, 1969 - RCA Studio A - Nashville

 XPA5 1227-na


Overdub session for RCA - August 7, 1969 - United Recording - Las Vegas

 XPA5 1227-na
August 1969 Single A side RCA 47-9764 Suspicious Minds / You'll Think Of Me
Monaural master (without added horns):
June 30, 1987 CD RCA 6221-2-R The Memphis Record
Version with continuous ending and one fade:
1988 CD RCA 6401-2-R 50 Worldwide Gold Hits Volume 1 - Part 2
Re-mixed version:
September 24, 2002 CD RCA BMG 07863 68079-2 Elvis 30 Nr 1 Hits
Isolated excerpt of Elvis' harmony vocal overdub:
December 10, 2002 DVD Audio RCA BMG BMG 07863 65053-9 Elvis 30 Nr 1 Hits
Outtakes:
Takes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7: December 2012 CD FTD 506020-975050 Elvis Back In Memphis
Take 6: September 28, 1993 CD RCA BMG 66160-2 From Nashville To Memphis The Essential 60's Masters I
Rehearsal and take 6: October 10, 2001 2001 CD FTD 74321 84216-2 Memphis Sessions
Take 7: July 29, 1997 CD RCA 07863-67469-2 Platinum A Life In Music
A line of Save The Last Dance For Me with substitution of the word "take" for the word "dance" - Take 7: April 12, 1999 CD RCA 07863 67677-2 Suspicious Minds - The Memphis 1969 Anthology


Overdub sessions for Warner Brothers Motion Picture "This Is Elvis" - January 30, 1981 - T.B.S. - Hollywood

 LPA5 5818 Edited version of CPA5 4740 January 14, 1973 Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite
April 14, 1981 LP RCA CPL-2-4031 This Is Elvis






Version 1          Version 2          Version 3   

Version 4          Version 5          Version 6   


* We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby.
Why can't you see, what you're doing to me,
When you don't believe a word I say?


** We can't go on together, with suspicious minds
And we can't build our dreams, on suspicious minds.


So if an old friend I know, drops by to say hello,
Would I still see suspicion in your eyes
Here we go again, asking where I've been.
You can see the tears are real I'm crying.


** Repeat


Oh, let our love survive,
I'll dry the tears from your eyes.
Let's don't let a good thing die when honey,
You know I've never lied to you; Mmm, yeah, yeah!


* Repeat


*** Don't you know I'm caught in a trap, I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby.


**** Repeat (another 6 times!) 



Standard tuning.
Intro:
     G
E||----------------------------|----------------------------|
B||----------------------1-----|----------------------1-----|
G||--------0---------0------0--|--------0---------0------0--|
D||-----0-----0--0h2---2-------|-----0-----0--0h2---2-------|
A||----------------------------|----------------------------|
E||--3-------------------------|--3-------------------------|
     C
E||----------------------1-----|----------------------1-----|
B||--------1---------1------1--|--------1---------1------1--|
G||-----0-----0--0h2---2-------|-----0-----0--0h2---2-------|
D||----------------------------|----------------------------|
A||--3-------------------------|--3-------------------------|
E||----------------------------|----------------------------|
     D                            C
E||----------------------3-----|----------------------1-----|
B||--------3---------3------3--|--------1---------1------1--|
G||-----2-----2--2h4---4-------|-----0-----0--0h2---2-------|
D||--0-------------------------|----------------------------|
A||----------------------------|--3-------------------------|
E||----------------------------|----------------------------|
     G
E||----------------------------||
B||----------------------1-----||
G||--------0---------0------0--||
D||-----0-----0--0h2---2-------||
A||----------------------------||
E||--3-------------------------||
h=hammer on
  G
    We're caught in a trap
  C
    I can't walk out
  D             C               G
    Because I love you too much baby
  G
    Why can't you see
  C
    What you're doing to me
  D                  C              D    C    Bm    D
    When you don't believe a word I say?
  C             G
    We can't go on together
  Bm                D
    With suspicious minds
  Em             Bm
    And we can't build our dreams
  C               D     D7
    On suspicious minds

    So, if an old friend I know
    Drops by to say hello
    Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?
    Here we go again
    Asking where I've been
    You can't see these tears are real
    I'm crying
    We can't go on together
    With suspicious minds
    And be can't build our dreams
    On suspicious minds
    (Slowly)
  Em           Bm
    Oh let our love survive
  C            D
    Or dry the tears from your eyes
  Em                  Bm
    Let's don't let a good thing die
  C                 D
    When honey, you know
               G
    I've never lied to you
    C   G     D7
    Mmm yeah, yeah