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Title: Soul Man
Artist: Blues Brothers
Album: The Blues Brothers Complete
Tuning: Standard
Tabbed by: CJ Hoyle (cjhoyle@gmail.com)

This tab is 100% correct 
I have been very careful making sure everything is exactly as recorded.

Intro 
(let it ring)
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|2-------------2-|0---------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|0-------2-------|
|----------------|----------------|3---------------|----------------|

Verse 
[0:11]               
|----------------|----------------|
|2---2-----------|----------------|
|--------4-4-2---|0---0---2---4---|
|----------------|----------------|


Chorus
[0:36]
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|


|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|------2---------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|0-2/4---2-------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

Verse 
[0:52]

Chorus
[1:09]

Verse 
[1:25]

Chorus
[1:42]

Transitional Phrase 
(after this part everything is one semi-tone higher)
[1:59]
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----0-----0---0-|----2-----2---2-|----------------|----------------|
|3-------3-------|----------------|0-------0---0---|2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
|----3-----0-1-2-|3-------3---3---|----------------|----------------|----------------|

ENDING Intro Sounding Riff
(the first line is just 1 semi-tone down from the intro)
[2:09]
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|3-------------3-|1---------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|1-------3-------|
|----------------|----------------|4---------------|----------------|

(this part has a weird rhythm, so listen to it before you play it)
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|3-3---3---3---3-|1-1---1---1---1-|----------------|--0/3-----------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|1-----3---------|
|----------------|----------------|4-4---4---4---4-|----------------|
ENDING Verse  
(1 semitone from regular verse)      
[2:26]
|----------------|----------------|
|3---3---0-0-----|------------0---|
|------------3---|1---1---3-------|
|----------------|----------------|

ENDING Note (let the second one ring)
[2:51]
|----------------|----------------|
|3---------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|1---------------|


Any comments or corrections send
them to...

CJ Hoyle (cjhoyle@gmail.com)