• Song:

    Black Snake Moan

  • Artist:

    Samuel L Jackson

Tabbed by: Joel Gonzalez

Tuning: Open D minor (DADFAD)

                                                I aint played for 
                                                nobody in years

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                                        Wanted me some kids! 
                                        Whole mess of them, but
                                        for Rose my wife... Kids 
                                        are for another time.

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                                          Then one spring...
                                                    (lightly rake)
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I seen a change in her. Breast           Then one day Rose said she had to
started swollen up. Couple of mornings   go to Jackson to visit her folks
I hear her in the bathroom throwing up.  and she didn't want me to go so I 
I done seen it in other woman before     stayed. 
so I knew. 
                                   (let ring)
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                You know how they talk about a woman, having that glow...
                She didn't have it know more! She done cut it out! 
                Got rid of it!
  "mute"	
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                                        That voice in my head
      "mute"             "mute"              "mute"             "mute"
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  Every time I think its gone,                               Calls me when  
         it comes howling back                               I'm ailing
       "mute"             "mute"            "louder"           "louder"
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       When I can't find                Lost in the pines	  
       my way home 
     "louder"           "louder"           "louder"            "louder"
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  I calls it the                     Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
  Black Snake Moan 
       "louder"           "louder"           "full"
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  Black snake all in my room

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                                     Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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  Black snake all in my room

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                                           Some pretty mamma
                                           better get this black snake soon

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                                  (Let ring)
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     Black snake is evil                  Black snake is all I see
      "full"
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      Black snake is evil                 Black snake is all I see

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              Woke up this morning!              Black snake moved in on me!

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                                                   (let ring with feedback)
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| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| x   Mute note
| b   Bend
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