Wild Thing - The Troggs

Pay attention to this - of the many tabs of this 1966 Troggs protopunkerthat I've seen on the net, this is the only one that gets the 'wild thing,I think I love you' break correct. Which is all the more amazing whenyou see how laughably simple it actually is.

As Dave Marsh said in _The New Book of Rock Lists_: 'Based on their playingstyle, the Troggs [troglodytes, i.e. cave dwellers] in question would haveto be considered Neanderthals - Cro-Magnons had art.' -- AWR

"Wild Thing" (Chip Taylor)

Intro:

-------------
-------------
-----9r7-----
-------------
-------------
-------------
^^^ slow reverse bend

A    D     E
/ / / / / / / /

Verse:

A           D    E    D
Wild thing ...

A           D    E     D
Heart ...

A            D     E     D
Everything ....

A           D     E
Wild t....     / / /

Break 1:

guitar:

v v v v v
-----------|-------------------------
--5--5-----|-5-----------------------
--5--6-(5)-|-6-----------------------
--5--7--5--|-7-----------------------
--5--7--5--|-7-----------------------
-----------|-------------------------

bass:

v v v v v
-----------|-2-----------------------
-----2-----|-------------------------
-----------|-------------------------
-----------|-------------------------

Wild thing, I ....
[above riff]

But I wanna ....

[above riff]

Come on and ....

[above riff]

I love you

A    D     E    D     A    D     E    D
/ / / /  / / / /  / / / /   / / / /

[repeat verse]

[ocarina solo over verse chords - no ocarina tab, but there are only four notes to it (E, G, A, and B) and you too should be able to play it within five minutes of picking up an ocarina]

Break 2:

Wild thing, I think ......
A    D     E    D     A    D     E
/ / / /  / / / /   / / / / [hold 4 bars]

[repeat verse]

Coda:

A          D     E
Wild t...
D        A        D     E
C'mon, c'mon, ....
D                     A
Shake it, shake ....[fade]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers