Nothin' But The Devil (Lightnin' Slim)

from the Rory Gallagher album A Blue Day For The Blues

tabbed by Kay-Uwe Graw on the 4th of May 2000


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Playing Notes:

/ - slide up
\ - slide down
s - slide between notes
h - hammer on
p - pull off
~ - vibrato
b - bend note
* - notes played without slide
x - muted

played in Open D (D A D F# A D from low to high)

 
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D-|-0--------------------------/3-----------------------------/3---/3---------|


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                                                                       well,


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 you know you said little girl             you were cheatin' your daddy right


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               leave home in the morning                ain't back 'til late


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 at night        that's nothin' but the devil             making treat me the

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 way you do                            I go to break out like the measles


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             I'm gonna be all over you


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 woke up early this morning baby   you're dressed up like a queen   you say


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 you're going to see your sister        but your sister you'll never see


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|-3-s-5-5---------------5--5---------5-5--5-5--5--5----5----5----5----5---5-|
         it's nothin' but the devil             making t r e a t me the way

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 you do                                            gonna break out like the


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 measles       gonna inject you with the Asian flu


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               well, you know you said little girl             do your daddy


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 wrong        you go out in the evening        you're never coming home


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|-3-s-5-5---------------5---5--------5-5--5-5--5--5----5----5----5----5---5-|
          it's nothing but the devil             making t r e a t me the way

                              *)           (*
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 you do                                       break out like the measles

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 inject you with the Asian flu


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                                                            well, you know

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 you said little girl             treat your daddy wrong            gone in

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 the morning and you don't       come back at all            nothin' but the


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 devil          make you treat me the way you do


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                  I'm gonna break out like the measles          I'm gonna be

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 all over you                                        oh oh oh  oh oh


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            oh oh  oh oh  oh  oh oh                                 oh  oh


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   oh  oh  oh  oh  oh     oh  oh  oh  oh

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           I'm gonna break out like the measles             gonna be all over

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 you


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