Prison Blues
Words & Music:
Jimmy Page & Chris
Farlow
This is a classic new blues
song. The "Outrider"
recording is oozing with all the raw sexuality of a '59 Les Paul at its best in
Jimmy Page's hands. I've just
given the basic blues structure as it applies to this song. Pick your key, crank up your amp to
"eleven", get those fingers ready for some sleazy bends and
go...to...town! Be sure to
"stutter" the starting consonants when it seems appropriate, a la
George Thorogood, as vocal fills.
(If anyone has tabbed this, I would love to see it!)
I IV I V
I
IV
I
I've been a b-bad boy,
baby. I've been a bad boy all
night long; oh, yes I have.
IV
I
Yes, I've been a bad boy,
honey. I've been a bad boy all
night long.
V
IV
I [turnaround of choice]
That woman, she don't even let
me, she did not even telephone.
I'm gonna leave my little
honey like a rabbit leaves the hole.
A-ow-ah leave my little honey
baby, just like that little bunny rabbit leaves the hole.
I got a weasel in my pocket,
I'm gonna stick that weasel down my mamma.
I'm gonna stick it down that
little hole.
INSTRUMENTAL VERSE(S):
I'm never gonna get out of
this prison, baby.
The only way I get out is
climb over the wall.
Oh baby, the only way out is
that I get a ladder and climb over the wall.
Well, I can't climb the
ladder, baby, 'cause I'm afraid that I, that I might fall.
Come on, yeah!
I'm staying in this Folsom
Prison, honey.
Yeah, I'm gonna stay in this
prison 'til the day that I die.
Oh, I'll stay in Folsom
Prison, baby, ooo, 'til the day, until the day that I die.
Hear more, I'm never killed
nobody.
Oh, my baby, you know, you know
that I'm staying alive.
V
bV IV [n.c. stop chord]
I [blues outro of
choice]
'Cause I know, baby----, yeah,
that's gonna be a great big lie.
[spoken over final chord:
"You know, I'm livin' in this F-Fol' prison!"]