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Shakin’ All Over (with Spoonful) – guitar tab

Shakin' All Over (with Spoonful) | guitar tab
As performed by The Who
>From Live at Leeds, 1970 
Written by Johnny Kidd (and Willie Dixon) 
  ©1960 EMI Mills Music Inc. (& Spoonful ©1960 Hoochie Coochie Music)

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

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transcribed by                             Whotabs                    
litgo@aol.com      rev 2000-11-19          www.thewho.net/whotabs     
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NOTE: Leads are approximate!!

Em11    (0)(0)2233

                   [main pattern      ]
|-3p0-------------||------------------||-----------------|
|-----3-0---------||------------------||-----------------|
|---------2-0-----||------------------||--------------2^-|
|-------------2-0-||-----2-2-0-*0-----||-----2-2-0-*0*---|
|-----------------||--------------2-2-||-----------------|
|-----------------||-0-0--------------||-0-0-------------|

                      Em11   A
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-----2-0---0-------|
|---------2----0----|
|-------------------|
|----------------3^-|

When you move in right up close to me
That's when I get the shakes all over me

[chorus]
Em11
                            A A (G)^ A
Quivers down my backbone

     (G^) E                     
I got the shakes in the knee bones
                             |---------------------|
                             |-------7^\-5---------|
                             |-------7^\-5---------|
                             |-------------5-------|
                             |-------------5h7-----|
                             |---------------------|

 Quivers down my thigh bones    Like I'm          Shakin' all over
|-------------------|----------------------|--------|
|-------------------|----14^\--------------|--------|
|2------------------|----14^\12-14^--------|--------|
|2------------------|--------12------------|--------|
|0------------------|----------------------|--2-----|
|-------------------|----------------15\---|--0-----|

                                     3
|                     ||:    Em11 A :|| (E) (E) A G |
|-3p0-----------------|
|-----3-0-------------|
|---------2-0---------|
|------------2p0------|
|---------------2p0---|
|------------------3^-||-0-0

That's what happens when you say goodnight to me

|-3p2p0---------------|-----------|
|-------3p2p0---------|-----------|
|-------------2p1p0---|0\/-2^-0---|
|------------------0-2|-----------|
|---------------------|-----------|
|---------------------|-----------|

Bring this feeling all inside of me

|--------------------|---------7*-----------|---------------|
|-10^-10^-10^-10-8---|---------7*-8*--------|---------------|
|------------------9-|---------7*-7-----7*-7/9~-------------|
|--------------------|------------7-----7---|---------------|
|--------------------|----------------------|---------------|
|--------------------|----------------------|---------------|

[repeat chorus]
Quivers down my backbone
I got the shakes in the knee bones
Quivers in the thigh bones

       Like I'm...       Shakin' all over
|-------------------|--------|
|-7^\---------------|--------|
|-7^\5-7^-----------|--------|
|-------------------|--------|
|-------------------|--2-----|
|-------------------|--0-----|


|-3p0---------------||--------|---------||   
|-----3-0-----------||--------|---------||
|---------2-0-------||.-2-----|----%---.|| (14)
|-------------2p0---||.-2-----|--------.||
|-------------------||--0-----|---------||
|-------------------||--------|---------||
                                          [harm]

|-----------------------------|------------------|---|---|
|-----------------------------|------------------|---|---|
|-----------------------------|------------------|---|---|
|-----------------------------|------------------|-2-|---|
|-----------------------------|------------------|-0-|---|
|-3h5-3h5-3h5--3h5-3h5-3h5----|-3h5-3h5-3h5--3---|---|---|

||--------------------|---------------------||
||----2---3--2---0----|--2---3-----3----3---||
||.----2------2-------|---2----0--0----0---.||
||.-----2------2------|----2-----0----0----.||
||--0-------0---------|-0-------------------||
||--------------------|---------3---2-------||

|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|-----2-2-0-0*----0-|-----2-2-0-0*------|----0-2----0-1-2---|
|-------------2-2---|-------------2-2---|-------------------|
|-0-0---------------|-0-0---------------|-0-----------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|

                                            [A  G] 
|----------------------|-------------------|
|-----3^\1-------------|-------------------|
|-0-2------2---0-2-----|-----2-2-0-0*----0-|
|----------------------|-------------2-2---|
|----------------------|-0-0---------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|

[official release edit]
=================================================================

|-------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
|-------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
|-----2-2-0-0*------|-----2-2-0-0-1-2---0-|-----0-1-2-----------|
|-------------2-2---|---------------------|---------------------|
|-0-0---------------|-0-0-----------------|-0-------------3^-0--|
|-------------------|---------------------|---------------------|

||--------------------||---------------------|---------------------|
||--------------------||---------------------|---------------------|
||.------------------.||---------------------|---------------------|
||.------------------.||----5-----5-----5--5h|7--------------------|
||--0-0--5^p3-0-5^p3--||-5h7--5h7---------7--|---------------------|
||--------------------||---------------------|---------------------|

| A     | A     Em11 | A 
A                                       Em11
Well, you could be a spoonful of diamonds
Could be a spoonful of gold
Just a little spoon of your precious love
Satisfy my soul

A       Em11 A            Em11  D
Everyone lies about you...
Everybody's wild about spoonful

[end Spoonful; return to official release]
===================================================================
                        6
||: A A A A | A A G5 D :||

  (A)                           (G) (D)    (A)
||------17---17---|-17---17---17---17----|-17---17-17-17---17---|
||---20---20^--20^|---20^--20^--20^--20^-|-20^--20^----20^--20^-|
||19^-------------|----------------------|----------------------|
||----------------|----------------------|----------------------|
||----------------|----------------------|----------------------|
||----------------|----------------------|----------------------|

                                 (G)     (D)
|-20^-20-17---------------17----------------------|
|-----------20-17-20-17-20---20p17h20p17----------|
|-----------------------------------------19p17---|
|----------------------------------------------19p|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|

  (A)                               (G)  (D)      
|-----------------17---|-------------------------|
|------------17h20--20-|-20^---------------------|
|---14h17p14-----------|------------/12h14-12h14-|
|17--------------------|-------------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------------|
  (A)                        (G) (D)
|--------------------|--------------|
|--------------------|--------------|
|-14---5^------------|--------------|
|--------7-----------|--------------|
|-----------5-7-3^-0-|-0-3-5^\-3----|
|--------------------|-----------5--|

  (A)                       (G)   (D)     (A)
|-----------------|---------------------|-----------|
|-----------------|---------------------|-----------|
|-----------------|---------------------|------7^^--|
|-----------------|---------------------|----5------|
|-3-3-3---3-3-3---|-3-3-3---------------|-3h5-------|
|------5--------5-|-------5-3h4h5-3h4h5-|-----------|

                    4  
||------------------||----------------5|-----------------|--------------|
||---5------5-------||--5-------5------|8^--5^-----5^----|5^------------|
||.---7^\p5---7^\p5.||----7^\p5--7^\p5-|-----7^\p5----7^\|-7^\p5--------|
||.-7------7-------.||-7-------7-------|----------7------|------7-5-7-7-|
||------------------||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|
||------------------||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|

                            
|-----------------|------------|-----------------|------------------|
|-----------------|------------|-----------------|------------------|
|-----2-2-0-0-----|-----2-2-5--|-----2-2-0-0-----|-----2-2----------|
|-----------------|---------5--|-------------2-2-|---------2-2-2----|
|-0-0---------3-0-|-0-0-----3--|-0-0-------------|-3-0-----0-3-0-0--|
|-----------------|------------|-----------------|---------------3^-|

                 3
||: E5 Em11 D A :||   Em11
                  |--------|
                  |---15---|
                  |---14^--|
                  |--------|
                  |--------|
                  |--------|

[repeat chorus]

[outro]              Em11                                            E
|-3p0--------------|-3--------12-------------------------------------0-
|-----3p0----------|-3-----------15p12-----15p12---------------------0-
|---------2p0------|-2-----14^--------14p12-----14p12----------------4-
|-------------2----|-2-------------------------------12---12--12-----2-
|------------------|-2----------------------------------10--10--10^--2-
|---------------3^-|-0--0--------------------------------------------0-

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litgo@aol.com

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