Whippin' Post

by The Allman Bros. Band, Frank Zappa · posted by WaltP

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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)

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Tab

WHIPPIN’ POST
By: Gregg Allman
The Allman Brothers Band
Frank Zappa
Key: Am

-3 4    6  -54-3
I been run down
 -3    6    -5  4 -3 -3
Lord, I’ve been lied to
-3  4   6    -5  -5
And I don't know why
5  6   -5   -5  -5   5  -5  -5 5 -54-3
I let that mean wom-an make me a fool
-3   7   -7  -7 -7 6-55-56
She took all my mon-  ey
   6    -5 -5   5
Wrecked my new car
 6   -5    5   -5  5  -5  6    -5   4   -3
Now she's with one of my good-time bud-dies,
5   6    5  -5   5    6    -5  4-3  
a-drink-in' in some cross-town bar

 -3    4   4*-55
Some-times I feel  
  5    6   7* 6    6   7  -7
Some-times I feel like I been
-7 6 -7  7   -7   7   -5 5
Tied to the whip-pin' post
 -7  -7  7   -7   7   -54-3
Tied to the whip-pin' post
 -7  -7  7   -7   7   6-55
Tied to the whip-pin' post
  6   -5   5   6   -5  -5 -54-3 -32
Good Lord, I feel like I'm dy-  in'

6    -5     4*  -3
My friends tell me
  5   5    6    6  5-5 5
That I’ve been such a fool
-3  6  -5  5    6   -5 -5   4   -3
and I have to stand by and take it
-3 -3   6   5   6  5-5 4-3
ba-by, all for lov-ing you
  7   7   7   7 6-55  5
Drown my-self in sor-row
-3 -3  -5  -5  -5    -5    6
And I look at what you’ve done
-3    6  -5    -5  5    -5 
But noth-in' seems to change;
 5   6    -5   -5   5  -5 6
The bad times stay the same,
-3  6  -55  -54-3
And I can't run

-3    4   4*-55
Some-times I feel  
  5    6   7* 6    6   7  -7
Some-times I feel like I been
-7 6 -7  7   -7   7   -5 5
Tied to the whip-pin' post
 -7  -7  7   -7   7   -54-3
Tied to the whip-pin' post
 -7  -7  7   -7   7   6-55
Tied to the whip-pin' post
  6   -5   5   6   -5  -5 -54-3 -32
Good Lord, I feel like I'm dy-  in'

-3    4   4*-55
Some-times I feel  
  5    6   7* 6    6   7  -7
Some-times I feel like I been
-7 6 -7  7   -7   7   -5 5
Tied to the whip-pin' post
 -7  -7  7   -7   7   -54-3
Tied to the whip-pin' post
 -7  -7  7   -7   7   6-55
Tied to the whip-pin' post
  6   -5   5   6   -5  -5 -54-3 -32
Good Lord, I feel like I'm dy-  in'

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