Back Door Man chords by Howlin' Wolf

Intro: E


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I am a back door man
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I am a back door man
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Well the men don't know, but the little girls understand

Verse 1:
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When everybody's tryin' to sleep
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I'm somewhere making my midnight creep
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Every morning, when the rooster crow
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Something tell me,   I got to go

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I am a back door man
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I am a back door man
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Well the men don't know, but the little girls understand

Verse 2:
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They take me to the doctor, shot full o' holes
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Nurse cried, please save the soul
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Killed him for murder, first degree
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Judge's wife cried,    let the man go free


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I am a back door man
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I am a back door man
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Well the men don't know, but the little girls understand

Verse 3:
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Stand out there
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Cop's wife cried, don't take him down
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Rather be dead, six feets in the ground
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When you come home you can eat pork and beans
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I eats mo' chicken, any man seen

Outro
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I am a back door man
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I am a back door man