Led Zeppelin - Prison Blues guitar tab

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From: euakan@eua.ericsson.se (Theo Kanter)

Subject: LYRICS: Prison Blues by Page/Farlow

Now that the debate on whether Jimmy Page is awesome or not has

subsided: This might be the right moment to contribute to the net with

some lyrics from an album which I stumbled over the other day, when I

visited the library: "Outrider".

I just thought: let the man speak for himself and stuck the cassette

into my walkman :-). Track after track with Jimmys patented riff style

rythm guitar and Plant-like vocalists - Synth guitars and all. Plant

was in fact on one of them :-) Excellent workmanship but nothing

earthshaking IMHO.

Then, all of a sudden a hear this awesome sound of an '59 Les Paul

through an amp cranked up to eleven pooring out sheer Beano tones and

starting off a straight 12 bar blues with Chris Farlow as a vocalist

(and he is extremely good at it too). Here goes:

~Title: Prison Blues

Album: Outrider (jimmy Page)

Written By: Jimmy Page & Chris Farlow

Vocals: Chris Farlow

Guitar: Jimmy Page

Drums: Jason Bonham

Bass:

{intro: '59 Les Paul and amp start oozing}

I've been a b-bad boy baby

I've been a bad boy all night long - oh yes I have,

Yes, I've been a bad boy honey,

I've been a bad boy all night long,

That woman, she don't even let me,

She did not even telephone.

I'm gonna leave my little honey,

Like a rabbit leaves the hole,

A-ow-ah leave my little honey baby,

Just like that little bunny rabbit leaves the hole,

I got a weasel in my pocket,

I'm gonna stick that weasel down my mamma,

I'm gonna stick it down that little hole.

{solo}

I'm never gonna get out of this prison babay,

The only way I get out is climb over the wall,

Oh baby, the only way out is that I get a ladder

and climb over the wall

Well I can't climb the ladder baby,

'Cause I'm afraid that I, that I might fall.

Come on yeah!

I'm staying in this Folsom prison honey,

Yeah, I'm gonna stay in this prison till the day that I day,

Oh, I'll stay in Folsom prison baby,

Oh, till the day, until the day that I die,

Hear more, I'm gonna kill nobody,

Oh my baby you know, you know that I'm staying alive

{outro}

'Cause I know baby, that's gonna be a great big lie,

(You know I'm livin' in this F-Fol' prison)

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Now, the lyrics are most likely a little off here and there

but it should be quite close. I just had to share this one with you.

The whole track just oozes. Yes, IMO Jimmy is an awesome player,

when he gets his mind to it.

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