Song: (Sittin' on) The dock of the bay
Artist: Otis Redding
Composers: Otis Redding and Steve Cropper
Tabbed by DJ  27th Mar 2015

To hear the original song, copy and paste this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug

'Remember me' album version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-q559-hhUA

USEFUL PLAYING INFO:

Emphasise the bass notes of each chord.

Any inversions of the main chords will work fine, I just prefer
to use mainly barre chords for the Verses, and then the
1st inversions for the descending bass notes in the Choruses.

The G/D in the INTRO, and the E/B in the CODA, are the standard
G and E chords but just emphasising the alternating bass note.

For the Asus4 chords in Verse 2 hammer-on on the 2nd string note.

The BRIDGE riffs are based more on the 'Remember me' album version
(Link shown near top of page). Quickly slide-up from the F to the G, 
and also the Em to the F, if this is tricky for you skip those first
passing chords and go straight to the second chord in each case.

Please IGNORE ANY CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS the website displays, they are
not my personal choices. They are generated automatically from the
site's generic database and often do not show the best options for 
a particular chord progression.
Please use the voicings suggested below in the text column numbers.

NOTE: Chords in brackets are played as bass note progressions only

   = 320033               = 022100         = xx0232
 = xx0033         ()    = 3xxxxx     *   = x32010
 * = 355433         () = 2xxxxx    ()   = x3xxxx
   = 799877         ()  = 1xxxxx    () = x2xxxx
   = 8-10-10-9-8-8  ()  = 1xxxxx         = 133211
  = 688766          *    = x02220        = 022000
   = 577655           = x02230       = x22100

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[Intro] (See b
           
e |---------3-
B |---------3-
G |---------0-
D |---------0-
A |-----------
E |---3---3---

ottom of page 
             
3---3-3---|---
3---3-3---|---
0---0-0---|---
0---0-0---|---
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for alternativ
     
------3-3---3-
------3-3---3-
------0-0---0-
------0-0-----
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3---3---------

e Intro riff)
3---| [x2]
3---|
0---|
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[Verse 1]
            
Sittin' in the

         
 morning sun,
             
I'll be sittin

             
' when the eve

      
----ning comes

,
            
Watching the s

          
hips roll in,
          
   And then I 

             
watch 'em roll

         
 a - way a - g

ain ...Yeah!

[Chorus]
             
I'm sittin' on

     ( (
 the dock of  

)( 
  a    bay,
             
Watching the t

    (  (
ide roll------

)( 
- a  - way,
             
Oo, I'm just s

              
ittin' on the 

           *
dock of a bay,

 
            (
Wasting time--

 
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-!

[Verse 2]
          
I left my ho -

    
 me in Georgia

,
             
'Headed for th

          
e 'Fris - co--

    ( (
- Bay,
            
Well, I've had

         
 noth - ing to

 
 live for,
              
And look like 

             
nothing's gonn

          
a come my---- 


way

[Chorus]
              
So, I'm just g

             
onna sit on th

  ( (
e dock of    a

/ 
    bay,
             
Watching the t

    (
ide roll----- 

 
a  - way,
             
Oo, I'm sittin

              
' on the dock 

     
of a bay, 
            (
Wasting time--

 
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---!

[Bridge]
            
   Look like  

   
...nothing's g

onna change,
(  
              

             
  Every - thin

  
g ...still rem

ains the same,
(  
              

             
 I can't do wh

            
at ten people 

    
tell me to do,
           
      So, I gu

              
ess, I'll re -

 
 main the same

, yes!

[Verse 3]
           
Sittin' here r

*         
est - ing my b

ones,
             
And this lonel

             
iness won't le

        
ave me a - lon

e,
            
It's ...two th

           
ousand mi - le

   
s I  roam,
             
Just to make t

          
his dock my---

  
- home

[Chorus]
              
Now, I'm just 

             
gonna sit at t

   ( (
he dock of    

 
a    bay,
             
Watching the t

    (
ide roll----- 

 
a  - way,
              
Hoo - wee, jus

             
t sittin' on a

           
 dock of a bay

,
            (
Wasting time--

 
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-!

[Coda - whistling]
         
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 Alternative for the Intro:
(Palm mute the bridge to emulate the bass guitar)

e |-----------
B |-----------
G |-----------
D |-----------
A |--------3-h
E |--3---3----

---------|----
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---------|----
---------|----
5--3-h5--|----
---------|--3-

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----3-h5--3-h5
--3-----------

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--| [x2]
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--| h = Hammer-on notes
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