Mannish Boy
by Muddy Waters
🎵 Blues
Difficulty
★★☆☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
Muddy Waters' swaggering one-chord blues vamp in A. Built on a driving stop-time riff with stinging double stops, this 1955 answer to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man" became a blues anthem.
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
A|--0--0--3--4--5----0--0--3--4--5----0--0--3--4--5---|
E|--0--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0--0---|
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
A|--0--0--3--4--5------5--4--3--0---------------------|
E|--0--0--0--0--0------0--0--0--0--0------------------|