Black Dog Tab

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    LED ZEPPELIN - BLACK DOG (Page/Plant/Jones) From LED ZEPPELIN
                   IV. Released on November 8th 1971.
 
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    Tabbed by:PJVillanueva
 
 
 
 
 
    This song has one of the best riffs in the Zeps catalog and they
    did a great job with all those deceptive time signature changes,
    but I'd have cut the number to less than four minutes long and
    would also have cut most of the final solo because I think it's
    too long and Page wasn't very sound there.
 
 
 
 
    Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move,
    Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.
 
    Ah, ah, child, way you shake that thing,
    Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.
 
    Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way,
    Watch your heartache drip, can't keep away.
 
    Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh, oh
    Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh, oh
 
    I gotta roll, can't stand still,
    Got a flamin' heart, can't get my fill,
    Eyes that shine burning red,
    Dreams of you all through my head.
    Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah...
 
    Hey baby, oh baby, pretty baby,
    Tell me what you do me now.
    Hey baby, oh baby, pretty baby,
    Tell me what you do me now
 
    Didn't take too long before I found out
    What people mean by down and out.
 
    Spent my money, took my car,
    Started tellin' her friends she' goin' be a star.
 
    I don't know, but I've been told
    A Big legged woman ain't got no soul
 
 
    Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh, ah
    Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh, ah
 
    All I ask for, when I pray,
    Steady rollin' of woman gonna come my way.
 
    Need a woman gonna hold my hand
    Tell me no lies, makes me a happy man.
 
    Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah...
 
    Ahhhhhh!
 
    Ooooh-ahhhh
 
 
 
    00:06
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    Hey hey     mama        said    way you     move        gonna
                                the    
 
 
 
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    make        sweat       gonna   make        groove
        you                             you
 
 
                            X
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    00:18
    Ah, ah, child, way you shake that thing,
    Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.
 
 
                            X
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    00:29
    Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way,
    Watch your heartache drip, can't keep away.
 
 
 
    00:35                   X
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    00:40
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    00:52
 
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                                Oh          yeah                oh 
 
 
 
 
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           yeah                 oh              oh              oh
 
 
 
 
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                                Oh
 
 
    00:58
 
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            yeah                oh          yeah                oh
 
 
                                            (.
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                oh              oh              I
 
 
 
    01:04
      gotta roll, can't stand still,
    Got a flamin' heart, can't get my fill,
 
    Eyes that shine burning red,
    Dreams of you all through my head.
 
    Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah...
 
 
    4/4
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    ah              ah              aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
 
            x    xx X   x   xx  X
 
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    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
 
    01:39
    x
 
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    aaaaahh     Hey         baby                oh          baby 
 
 
 
 
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                    pretty  baby            Tell    what    do  me  now.
                                                me      you
 
 
 
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    02:03
    Didn't take too long before I found out
    What people mean by down and out.
 
    Spent my money, took my car
    Started tellin' her friends she' goin' be a star.
 
    02:26
    I don't know, but I've been told
    A Big legged woman ain't got no soul
 
    Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh, ah
    Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, oh, ah
 
    03:01
    All I ask for, when I pray,
    Steady rollin' of woman gonna come my way.
 
 
 
    03:06                   X
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    03:12
    Need a woman gonna hold my hand
    Tell me no lies, makes me a happy man.
 
    Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
 
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    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh
 
 
    SOLO
    03:36
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    03:48
 
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    04:13
 
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        B  Bend
        R  Release
        /  Slide up
        \  Slide down
        H  Hammer-on
        P  Pull-off
        ~  Vibrato
        +  Harmonic
        x  Mute note
        .  Play note like a dot in standard notation
        ^  Ties two notes together
        (. Pause
X