Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

Tuning: , E A D G B E

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Strumming pattern note: The riff begins with a lead in of three 16th notes so that beat 2 in the
pattern above is really beat 1, then apart from the one lead in beat the riff is composed of a bar
of 4/4 and a bar of 5/8.  Play an A5 chord with a downstroke just before beat 8, then play another
one at the beginning of a new bar and hold until the next occurrence of the riff; generally, though
not always, for two bars of 4/4, followed by the lead in to the riff again.


[Main Riff] (play in between verse vocal lines, as if you needed to be told)

             4
e|---------|--
B|---------|--
G|---------|--
D|-----5-6-|-7
A|---7-----|--
E|---------|--
              

/4            
--------------
--------------
---5b------7-9
-------7------
-7------------
--------------
              

                     5/8                  (hold chord)
-------------------|---------------------|-----------------
-------------------|---------------------|-----------------
-5h7p5-----5b------|---------------------|-2---------------
-------7-7-----7---|-5-7-7---------2-----|-2---------------
-------------------|-------5-7-3-5-0-----|-0---------------
-------------------|---------------------|-----------------
 \ 3 /

   b = bend (1/4 tone), h = hammer on, p = pull off


[Intro]



[Verse 1]

Hey hey mama, 

said the way y

ou move

Gon' make you 

sweat, gon' ma

ke you groove


[Verse 2]

Ah ah child, w

ay ya shake th

at thing

Gon' make you 

burn, gon' mak

e you sting


[Verse 3]

Hey hey baby, 

when you walk 

that way

Watch your hon

ey drip, I can

't keep away


[Chorus]
            
Oh yeah, oh ye

         
ah ah, ah, ah 

ah
            
Oh yeah, oh ye

         
ah ah, ah, ah 

ah
            
Oh yeah, oh ye

         
ah ah, ah, ah 

ah
            
Oh yeah, oh ye

         
ah ah, ah, ah 

ah


[Verse 4]

I gotta roll, 

I can't stand 

still

Got a flamin' 

heart, can't g

et my fill


[Verse 5]

With eyes that

 shine, burnin

' red

Dreams of you 

all through my

 head


[Bridge]

Ah ah ah ah ah

 ah

Ah ah ah ah ah

 ah ah
         
Hey baby, whoa

      
 my baby, my p

retty baby
           
Darlin' makes 

                     
'em do it now
   
Hey baby, oh m

y baby, my pre

tty baby
           
Move the way y

             
ou're doin' no

             
w


[Verse 6]

Didn't take to

o long 'fore I

 found out

What people me

an by down and

 out


[Verse 7]

Spent my money

, took my car

Started tellin

' her friends 

she gon' be a 

star


[Verse 8]

I don't know b

ut I been told

A big legged w

oman ain't got

 no soul


[Chorus]
            
Oh yeah, oh ye

         
ah ah, ah, ah 

ah
            
Oh yeah, oh ye

         
ah ah, ah, ah 

ah
            
Oh yeah, oh ye

         
ah ah, ah, ah 

ah
            
Oh yeah, oh ye

         
ah ah, ah, ah 

ah


[Verse 9]

All I ask for,

 all I pray

Steady rollin'

 woman gon' co

me my way


[Verse 10]

Need a woman g

onna hold my h

and

Won't tell me 

no lies, make 

me a happy man


[Bridge]

Ah ah ah ah ah

 ah

Ah ah ah ah ah

 ah ah


[Outro]
            (x5)
          
      
(Fade out)

        

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