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 chorusPlay on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound
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