John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker - Whiskey And Wimmen guitar tab

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Whiskey and Wimmen - John Lee Hooker

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standard tuning

capo 1 (notes in relation to capo)

the blues line is not quite standard 12 bar blues, the lyrics are, just not the music.

INTRO

e|----------------------|

B|o--------------------o|

G|----------------------| Repeat 3x

D|o--------------------o|

A|----------2-2-4-2-4---|

E|--0-0-4-4-------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + a

e|-----------------------|-------------|

B|-----------------------|-------------|

G|-----------------------|-------------|

D|----------4-(4)/6\\4\\2--|--2-2-2/4\\2--|

A|-----------------------|-------------|

E|--0-0-4-4--------------|-------------|

1 + 2 + 3 4 + 1 2 + 3 a 4

e|----------------------|

B|o--------------------o|

G|----------------------| Repeat x3

D|o--------------------o|

A|----------2-2-4-2-4---|

E|--0-0-4-4-------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + a

e|----------------------|

B|----------------------|

G|----------------------| *Tag*

D|----------2-2-4-2-4---|

A|--0-0-4-4-------------|

E|----------------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + a

Verse# --see message at bottom

e|----------------------|

B|o--------------------o|

G|----------------------|

D|o--------------------o|

A|----------2-2-4--4----|

E|--0-0-4-4-------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Whiskey and Wimmin almost wrecked my life

Whiskey and wimmin almost wrecked my life

Werent for whiskey and wimmin, i have money today (play *Tag*)

Nightlife Nightlife Nightlife

aint no good aint no good for me

I had a good start but wimmin and whiskey tore it down

e|--

B|--

G|--

D|2- hit that note a couple of times inbetween the verse.. some slight bending on some notes.

A|--

E|--

Whiskey and Wimmin aint no good for me

Whiskey and wimmin aint no good aint no good for me

I had a lot of money, and big fine car, but i lost everything i had

aw i did

during the end part here, hit

e|---

B|---

G|-8- a cuple of times, some single note hits

D|---

A|---

E|---

I had a lot of money at one time but nightlife, and whiskey wrecked my life.

#to make it sound better, you could play it as a standard blues, 12 bar progression. The

appears to be playing a regular blues underneath what the guitar does. The recording I

is somewhat muddy in terms of that, but this is what it sounds like to me.

| / slide up

| \\ slide down

| h hammer-on

| p pull-off

| ~ vibrato

| + harmonic

| x Mute note

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