Walkin The Dog Chords

KeyEb CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays582

Walkin The Dog by Johnny Rivers is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Eb. It uses the chords Eb, Bb, Cm, C, Am, C7, F, G and Ab. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Eb
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16
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Intro: Eb Bb Cm..C Am C Am..C Am C Am.. 

       C Am C Am..C Am C Am  
        

#1. 
C 
Mary Mack, dressed in black, silver buttons  

all down her back. 
C 
High hose, tipsy toes, she broke a needle and  
C7 
she can't sew. 

            F                    C 
Walking the dog, oh, walking the dog. 
       G                             F 
If you don't know how to do it, I'll show you  
                C   Bb Eb C 
how to walk the dog. 

#2. 
C 
Asked her mother for fify cents, to see the 

elephant jump the fence. 
C                               Ab 
Jumped so high, he hit the sky..never got back  
        C 
til the fourth of July. 
 
            F                    C 
Walking the dog, oh, walking the dog. 
       G                             F 
If you don't know how to do it, I'll show you  
                C 
how to walk the dog. 

#3. 
C 
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how do your garden 

grow? 
C 
You got a-silver bells and cockle shells and  
Ab                    C 
pretty maids all in a row. 

            F                    C 
Walking the dog, oh, walking the dog. 
       G                             F 
If you don't know how to do it, I'll show you  
                C   Eb 
how to walk the dog. 

INTERLUDE: C Am C F C Am Cm F C G Eb Cm G 

#4. 
C 
Asked my Mama for fifty cents, to see the 

elephant jump the fence. 
C                               Ab 
Jumped so high, he hit the sky..never got back  
        C                
til the fourth of July. 

            F                    C 
Walking the dog, oh, walking the dog. 
       G                             F 
If you don't know how to do it, I'll show you  
                C   Eb C 
how to walk the dog. 

OUTRO: 
C 
Ju-la-la-la-la-la-la-walkin'..ju-la-la-la-la- 

la-la-walkin'..ju-la-la-la-la-la-la-walkin'.. 
                 G                              
Whoa-now..if you don't know how to do it, I'll  
F                        C   G Eb Cm Eb C 
show you how to walk the dog.  
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante