Red Hot Chili Peppers – Backwoods (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
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Someone spilled blood many years ago

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Someone spilled blood but do you know

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That from the backwoods where the Chuck Berrys grow

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Come your long tall daddies of rock and roll
[Chorus]
F#m     E        A   B
Take me to your backwoods now

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Take me to your backwoods now
[Verse 2]
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Spinning down from the clouds like a tornado

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Spinning out of control like a psychedelic soul

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With a rhythm hitting harder than Larry Holmes

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Come your long tall daddies of rock and roll
[Chorus]
F#m     E        A   B
Take me to your backwoods now

F#m     E        A   B
Take me to your backwoods now

[Interlude]
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|7-9-7-9-7-9-7-9-|
A|7-9-7-9-7-9-7-9-|
E|7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|      4x
[Chorus]
F#m     E        A   B
Take me to your backwoods now

F#m     E        A   B       n.c.
Take me to your backwoods now
{Solo] B B B B A A F#m F#m A B [Interlude] F#m F#m F#m F#m [Verse 3]
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Mr. Uplift Mofo my man Bo Diddley

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Hit sippin' a bottle of nickel ripple

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Play the lickity split finger lickin'€™ licks

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For all you wicked city slick chicks

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And all you nitty gritty hicks

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We'll make your nipples ripple

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Make you wanna dip your dipple

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Make you wanna soak your hickory stick

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That's right

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Because my man has a grip on it

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And I do mean on it

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Which brings to mind

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A very sinister minister kind of guy

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A man named Little Richard

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Who was born to make them b*****s stir

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Thatâ€'s right he'€™ll make the sweet substance drip

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From the middle of your hillbilly lips

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And like the farmer milks his cow

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The Howling Wolf will howl

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And since times does allow

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You all can take me to your backwoods now
[Outro]
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Take me to your backwoods now                  [x4]

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Take me to your backwoods