The Allman Brothers - Whipping Post

From [email protected] Tue Apr 8 13:06:18 1997
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:08:28 -0700
From: Doug Landry
To: [email protected]
Subject: TAB: 'Whipping Post' by 'Gregg Allman'

"Whipping Post" Words and Music by Gregg Allman as performed by The Allman
Brothers Band.

Transcribed by Terry Landry ([email protected] or [email protected])

*My transcription can be used in addition to the one submitted by Mike
Duncan ([email protected]). My transcription has a little more
Detail, but putting Mike's and mine together will probably give everyone a
More complete picture of how to play this song. There is also bass tab
Submitted by [email protected], and guitar chords submitted by Glen Macon
([email protected])

H = hammer on ^ | / = slide up \ = slide down
P = pull off | = bend V = release ~~~~ = vibrato N.C. = no chord

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.
|---------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------5h8-5---|
|-5h7-7-----5h7-7-----5h7-7-----5h7-5-7-|
|-5h7-7-----5h7-7-----5h7-7-----------7-|
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------| repeat

FIRST VERSE
(chord progression: guitars, organ)
A Bm C Bm
I've been run down.
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.
And now she's with one of my good time buddies drinking in some cross town bar.

PRE-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------------------------------------|