Whipping Post
Words & Music:
Gregg Allman (Allman Brothers Band)
Tabs by Terry Landry & Mike Duncan
INTRO (bass guitar)
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------3h5-3---|
|-3h5-5p3h5-3h5-5p3h5-3h5-5p3h5-------5-| repeat
The guitars join.
First, one doubles the bass line.
Then the other does this.
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|----------------------------|
|-------------------------------5h8-5---| |----------------------------|
|-5h7-7-----5h7-7-----5h7-7-----5h7-5-7-| or |----222-----222----222------| vamp
|-5h7-7-----5h7-7-----5h7-7-----------7-|
|----222-----222----222------|
|---------------------------------------|
|-0--000--0--000--0-000--5-3-|
|---------------------------------------|
|----------------------------|
Main riff:
Am Bm(2) Am(5) Bm(2) [another version subs C for the AM(5)]
I've been run down, and I've been lied to.
And I don't know why I let that mean woman make me a fool.
She took all my money, wrecked my new car.
Now, she's with one of my good time buddies,
Drinking in some crosstown bar.
CHORUS:
Bm7 D7(5)
E7(7)
Sometimes I feel, sometimes I feel,
A D
C A D C
Like I've been tied to the whippin' post, tied to the
whippin' post,
A D
C A [strum,
mute, then n.c.]
Tied to the whippin' post, Good Lord I feel like I'm dying.
BRIDGE
^full
^full
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|--|--|------|--|------------|---------------------10h12p10----|
|-5|--|-----5|--|------------|10p8--------10-12-13-10h12p10-13-|
|-7|--V--5--7|--V--5-7p5-----|-----9p7-----9-11-12----------12-|
|------------------------7---|---------10----------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
repeat bar
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO OVER Am [try
Am pentatonic, A aeolian, C ionian, D dorian, etc.]
My friends tell me that I've been such a fool.
And I have to stand by and take it, babe, all for loving you.
I drown myself in sorrow, 'cause I look at what you've done.
But nothing seems to change, the bad times stay the same
& I can't run.
CHORUS & BRIDGE:
GUITAR SOLO:
Then we encounter this two octave run of the A aeolian mode
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|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-|
|-------------------------5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-8-8-8-8-------------------|
|-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-8-8-8-8---------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------5-5-5-5--5\--|
|-------------------------5-5-5-5-6-6-6-6-8-8-8-8--------------|
|-4-4-4-4-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
And now a rhythm and lead trade off...
A
Bm
C
Bm <---------rhythm
guitar, organ }
^full ^full ^full ^full
}
|-----17|------17|------17|------17|---|
}
|-----20|------20|------20|------20|---|<--lead
guitar }
|--------------------------------------|
}repeat
|--------------------------------------|
}
|--------------------------------------|
}
|-5-5------7-7------8-8------7-7-------|<--bass
guitar }
[n.c.]
Sometimes I feel... [repeat chorus in half-time with blues
fills]
+++++++++++++++++
Fills for Chorus:
^full (release silent)
|-------------------------10|-10-8-------------------|
|--------------------8-10----------10-8--------------|
|-----------------/9---------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------4-5--------------------------------------|
|-5---8----------------------------------------------|
sometimes I
feel (lead fill in Am [I use this one])
^full^full
^full
|------------------------17-20|--20|-20-17-20|-------|
|------------------17-20-----------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------5----------------------------------------|
|-5---7-------7-5------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
sometimes I
feel (again, one fill I use)
CHORUS
A
~~~~~~~
|---------------5--5---------------------|
|---------------5--5-8-5-----------------|
|---------------6----7-5-5-7--5----------|
|---------------7--------5-7--5----------|
|---------------7------------------------|
|---------------5------------------------| repeat (at the
word "tied")
Like I've been
tied to the whipping post