WHO - "young man blues" Tablature

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From tihst3+@pitt.edu Thu May 8 14:09:08 1997
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:17:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Tilman Heckel <tihst3+@pitt.edu>
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: TAB: Young man blues by The Who

#-------------------------------PLEASE NOTE------------------------------#
# This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation #
# of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship,#
# or research. #
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That's how I play this riff. Corrections are welcome. Don't send money.
All credits go to Frank Warnatzsch, from whom I learned this more than
a dozen of years ago.
Til


Riff: Young man blues (The Who)



p = pull off

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-------------------------3---2---|-0-------------------------------|
|-------------------------4---2---|-0-------------------------------|
|---------------------2-----------|---------2p0-----0-------2p0-----|
|---------------------------------|-------------2---------------2---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-------------------------3---2---|-0-------------------------------|
|-------------------------4---2---|-0-------------------------------|
|-0-------2-----------2-----------|---------2p0-----0-------2p0-----|
|---------------------------------|-------------2---------------2---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-------------------------3---2---|-0-------------------------------|
|-------------------------4---2---|-0-------------------------------|
|---------------------2-----------|---------2p0-----0-------2p0-----|
|---------------------------------|-------------2---------------2---|
|-3-------0-----------------------|---------------------------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-------------------------3---2---|-0-------------------------------|
|-------------------------4---2---|-0-------------------------------|
|-0-------2-----------2-----------|---------2p0-----0-------2p0-----|
|---------------------------------|-------------2---------------2---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
|---------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-2-------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-2-------------------------------|
|-3-------0-----------------------|-0-------------------------------|

Tabbed 1997 by Tilman Heckel <tihst3+@pitt.edu>


And here come the lyrics:
From: lclement@pipeline.com (Luis Clemente-Guzman)

Young Man Blues
(Mose Allison)
as performed by The Who


(opening riff)

Uh well the young ....

(opening riff again)

I said the young man....

(opening riff one more time)

Uh well you know in the ....

(yet one more time...)

But you now nowadays....

(one last rfiff and then on with the solo)

They ain't got ...

(solo)

In the old days... * Roger is basically
In the old days.. * improvising (or ad-lib)
When the young man... * words (he's got to do
walked by... * something while the
They stepped BACK! * others are jamming!)
They stepped BACK! *

(opening riff to end)

Nowadays if you're ....

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