Fogerty John – The Old Man Down The Road tab ver. 2

intro:|-----------------------------|---------------------------------------||-----------------------------|---------------------------------------||-----------------------------|---------------------------------------||-5-7-7b(8)-5-----------------|-5-7-7b(8)-(8)-b(8)7-5-----------------||-------------7--0-----7---7--|-----------------------7--0-----7---7--||------------------3-0---0----|----------------------------3-0---0----|

          E7
He take-a thunder from the mountain
          G
He take-a lightnin' from the sky
             A
He bring the strong man to his beggin' knees
            E7
He make the young girl's mama cry

CHORUS:
           E7
You got to hidey-hide
           G
You got to jump and run
           A
You got to hidey-hidey-hide
    C       D             E7
The old man   is down the road

Verse 2:
He got the voices speakin' riddles
He got eyes as black as coal
He got a suitcase covered with rattlesnake hide
And he stands right in the road

(chorus, with "away" added to end of 2nd line)

(instrumental, same pattern as chorus)

Verse 3:
He make the river call your lover
He make the barking of the hound
Put a shadow 'cross the window
When the old man comes around

(chorus; this time, add "again" to end of 2nd line
   and sing 4th line twice)


there's alot of this:

|----16----16-16---16-16\---------------||---------------------------------------|  ---(mute this string)|-/16---16------16----------------------||---------------------------b(8)7--5----||------------------------------------7--||---------------------------------------|

and this bass run:

|----------------------------||----------------------------||----------------------------||-2-2-2-2-0------------------||-----------2-0--------------||---------------0------------|

I'm still working on this one:

|----------------------------------||---b2(2.5)---------b2(2.5)--------||---b2(2.5)-0-----0-b2(2.5)-0------||-2-----------2---------------2----||----------------------------------||----------------------------------|


You may not be able to play all these parts by yourself; I know I can't.  
Fogerty MUST have had multiple guitars/tracks doing them (that's my story and 
I'm sticking with it).

Tab notes:

--8b(9)--  play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach the
             pitch of fret nine
--b(9)8--  play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
             releasing until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
-8b(8.5)-  play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach the
             pitch a half note higher than the normal pitch of fret eight
---15\---  play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
             undefined, judge by ear)