Young Man Blues tab by The Who

From tihst3+@pitt.edu Thu May  8 14:09:08 1997


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


And here come the lyrics:

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 ....