Rocky Racoon by the Beatles
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Tabbed by Frederic Maquet
This song was tabbed from the Anthology 3 CD, so the lyrics , tune, etc, might
be different. It's a really nice song, which you should play by fingerpicking
the bass string first (low strings) and then the higher strings. The C/B chord
is a transitional chord....Anyway, this is a beuatiful song and fun to sing,
and basically I had to tab something by the Beatles (not "Something", the song,
that's already been tabbed!).
The recording is in G#7, but you should tune the guitar down one step,
such that you can play the easier Am chords...if you want to play with
the record.
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Email me corrections at f.maquet@ic.ac.uk
Intro: (shown here with standardly tuned guitar chords, words are spoken
in some sort of americain drawl!)
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G#m7 C#7
Rocky Raccoon, he was a fool onto himself,
F# B
And he would not swallow his foolish pride,
B/Bb G#m7
Mind you, coming from a little town in Minnesota,
It was not the kind of thing that a young guy did
C#7 F# B B/Bb
when a fellah went and stole his chick away from him...
Verse 1: (tuned down guitar...same chords as above...)
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Am7 D7
Now Rocky Raccoon, checked into his room,
G C C/B
only to find Gideon's Bible.
Rocky had come, equipped with a gun,
To shoot off the legs of his rival.
His rival it seems, had broken his dreams,
of stealing that girl of his fancy,
Her name was Maggyll, and she called herself Lill,
but everyone knew her as Nancy,
Now she and the man, who called himself Dan,
Were in the next room at the how-down,
And Rocky burst in, and grinning a grin,
said Danny-Boy this is a showdown,
But Danny was hot, he drew first and shot,
And Rocky collapsed in the corner,
Dadadaadadadadadadadaddaa, laadalddadmadam
daldaadamadladmadladmaddam,
The Doctor walked in, stinking of gin,
proceeded to lie on the table,
The Doctor said Rock, you met your match son.
Rock said "it's only a scratch son", I'll be better soon,
Better soon said the doc, come on son,
Got to get hitched got to get back come on son,
go to go show that Danny-Boy.
However
Rock Raccoon, fell back in his room,
only to find Gideon's Bible,
Gideon checked out and left him no doubt,
To help with good Rocky's revival, aaaah
ladadam damadamadamdadam doobie doo's (etc...)
End.
Fred
Chords:
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Detuned: Standard-tuned:
Am7 002213 G#m7 466474
D7 x00212 C#7 446464
G 320033 F# 244322
G7 320001 F#7 242322
C 032010 B 224442
C/B x20010 B/Bb x14442
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