Back Door Man Chords
by Howlin Wolf
Back Door Man by Howlin Wolf is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords E and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: E
E
I am a back door man
E
I am a back door man
G7 E
Well the men don't know, but the little girls understand
Verso 1:
E
When everybody's tryin' to sleep
E
I'm somewhere making my midnight creep
G7 E
Every morning, when the rooster crow
G7 E
Something tell me, I got to go
E
I am a back door man
E
I am a back door man
G7 E G7 E
Well the men don't know, but the little girls understand
Verso 2:
E
They take me to the doctor, shot full o' holes
E
Nurse cried, please save the soul
G7 E
Killed him for murder, first degree
G7 E
Judge's wife cried, let the man go free
E
I am a back door man
E
I am a back door man
G7 E
Well the men don't know, but the little girls understand
Verso 3:
E
Stand out there
E
Cop's wife cried, don't take him down
E
Rather be dead, six feets in the ground
E
When you come home you can eat pork and beans
G7 E
I eats mo' chicken, any man seen
Outro
E
I am a back door man
E
I am a back door man