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Here you go, best as I can play it, anyway:

"Sweet Thing"

Lead line is played on top two strings (little E and B). I'll just tab those two strings. It looks like this:

9 9 7 7 9 9 /5 5 /5 5
10 10 9 9 10 10 /7 5 /7 5

The "/5" and "/7" mean slide those notes up to those frets from the frets just below. Play that figure twice, letting an A note ring in between.

The chords for the verses are A and Dmajor. Prince plays the first A from the fifth fret. It's a barre chord without making an index-finger bar; just lay the index finger over the top two strings. (Get to know and love that position because it's how almost all of "Cream" is played.)

You can play the Dmajor either on the second fret:

E 2
B 2
G 2
D 0
A x
E x

or on the fifth fret:

E 5
B 7
G 6
D 7
A x
E x

The second time the A chord is played in the verse, Prince does a little fill, usually something like this:

E
B
G
D 2
A 2 4 2
E 3 4

He plucks an A chord on the fifth fret at the end of that, then plays the Dmajor.

The chorus is three notes played to the "Oh, you are my" and they are A-B-D-A. Prince plays these on the (low) E and A strings, sliding from the A to the B.

Then the "Sweet thing" part is the chords G and A played twice each, with a little twist. Prince is plucking the D, B and E strings, and on the third pluck he is playing an extra note on the sixth, or little E, string. For the G chord, it's an A note, and for the A chord it's a B note.

The chorus part is played three times and then he lets the song end.

That's it, although Prince throughs in a few fills here and there. If you get what I've layed out down, then adding fills will be easy.

"Cream"

It's in Bflat. Prince plays the Bb chord like described above - index finger covering the little E and B strings; middle finger on the G string and ring finger on the D. The Bb chord is played with the index finger on the sixth fret. Prince strums the bottom strings and plucks the top two strings to give it that funky sound.

The verses are Bb and Eb. He plays Eb by just laying his index finger over the G, D and B strings on the eighth fret. The fills are done using the rock scale and starting on either the sixth fret (which means just hammering between the sixth and eighth frets) or the third fret (hammering the third and fifth frets). I play them both on the G, D and B strings.

The chorus is Bb and F. Sometimes Prince makes F as a barre chord on the tenth fret, and sometimes he makes it with what I call the "D" fingering starting on the fifth fret (I'm sure there is a better name, but I didn't go to Michigan P ).

The little progression at the end of the chorus ("Cream, shu-boogie bop") are the chords Gminor, Ab and Bb. I used to play this part with a downward progression - Eb/Db/Bb. Both sound good; in fact, mix them up to be really funky.

I hope this helps, and I welcome any corrections, as I am a hack guitarist.

That tab didn't line up very well. The "10"s on the bottome row should be below the "9"s on the top row.

The "9"s on the bottom row should be below the "7"s on the top row.

The "/7"s on the bottom row should be below the "/5"s on the top row; and the "7"s on the bottom row should be below the "5"s on the top row.

It might help to copy that onto a piece of paper. Good luck!

And the other tab looks even worse. The fill should be, in this order: E string - 3rd fret, 4th fret; A string - 2nd fret, 4th fret, 2nd fret; D string - 2nd fret. I hope that helps.