The Doors – Build Me A Woman (Guitar)

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There are slight variations on the live versions of this song by The Doors, **some contain explicit lyrics** This is a version for novice guitar players using a simple blues chord structure in standard tuning. Lead guitar players will find other tabs on UG. There are 20 bars in Verse 1, but regular 12 bars in verse 2 and in the instrumental and verse 3 is 16 bars. This version is tabbed from The Doors Absolutely Live 1970 Blues in E, 4/4 time [Intro] (guitar)
E E E E
(keyboards and guitar)
E E E E [Verse 1]
E
Give me a witness, darling, I need a witness, babe

E
I got the poontang blues, yeah

A                             E
I got the poontang blues, yeah

          B            A                           E     B
Top of my head down to the bottom of my cowboy shoes, alright
[Verse 2]
E
Build me a woman, make her ten feet tall

A                                                   E
You got to build me a woman, make her ten feet tall

B                         A             E   B
Don't make her worthless, don't make her....small, right, oh, come on
[Instrumental] (keyboards)
E x4 A x2 E x2 B A E B
(guitar)
E x4 A x2 E x2 B A E B [Verse 3]
E
You got to build me a woman, make her ten feet tall

A                                       E
Build me a woman, make her ten feet tall

B                          A
Don't make her worthless, don't make her small

B                      A                  D D# E
Build me someone I can ball all night long