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Back Door Man

by Willie Dixon / The Doors · posted by chibluesteve

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
-5 -4 -3 3 -4  
 I  am 
6  3    -4  -3 3 2 
a back door  man
-3 -4 -3 3 2  
 I  am 
6  3    -4  -3 3 2
a back door man
 2    3  -5   -4   -3 3 2  
Well the men don't know, 
 2   2  -5 -5  -5 6   3  2  2 
but the little girls understand

 -5  -5 -4 3 2   -4 -4  -3  -4
When everybody's tryin' to sleep
-5   -5   2    2  2  2    2   3    2
I'm somewhere making my, midnight creep
-5 -4  6   6    -5  -4  -5  -4   -3    
Every morning, when the rooster crows
 -5   -4   -3   2   <3 3  2  1  2  
Something tells me, I've got to go

Chorus:
-5  -4 -3 <3 2
 I  am
 <3   2    2
back door man
6 -4 -3 <3 2
I am
2  <3   2    2
a back door man
 2    3  -5   -4   -3 3 2
Well the, men don't know, 
 2   2  -5 -5  -4 -3 3  2 3   2
but the little  girls  understand

 -5    -4  -4 -3  3  -3 -4    -4   -3  3   -4
They, take me to the doctor, shot full of holes
 -4   -3 <3 2    -4    -3  <3  -3 3 2
Nurse cries,   please save the soul
   -4   -3  <3  -3 -4   -5 -4   -4   -3 <3 -4
Accused him for murder, in the first degree
 -4      -4    -3    -4 -4  -4  -4  2
Judge's wife cried, let the man go free

repeat chorus

 -5  -4    -4  -3 -3  -4    -3   3   -4
The cop's wife cried Don't take him down,
 -4 -3 <3   2    -4  -3   <3 -3   3  2
Rather be dead, six feets in the ground
 -4  -4   -3   <3   -3  -4  -5   -4  -4  -3 <3 -4
When you come home you can eat, pork and beans
-4  -4  -3   -4 -4   -4  -4   2
 I eats mo' chicken, any man seen

repeat chorus
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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