Riding With The King original guitar chords by
Eric Clapton
B.b. King

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Key: B major

Intro 1

A7

A7

A7

A7

B7

B7

B7

B7

Verse 1
B7 B7 
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I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid
E7 E7 
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I blew it all at the penny arcade
B7 B7 
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A hundred dollars on a Kewpie doll
E7 E7 
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B7 B7 
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No pretty chick is gonna make me crawl
G7 G7 
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Get on a TWA to the promised land
E7 E7 
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Every woman, child and man
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Gets a   Cadillac
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and a great big diamond ring
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Don't you know you're riding with the king?
E7 E7 
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A7 A7 
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Verse 2
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He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier
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He's gonna check us all on out of here
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Up to that mansion on a hill
Where you can get your
E7 E7 
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B7 B7 
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G7 G7 
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Get on a TWA to the promised land
E7 E7 
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Everybody clap your hands
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And don't you just love
the way that he sings?
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B7 B7 
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Don't you know we're riding with the king?
E7 E7 
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Riding with the king
A7 A7 
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B7 B7 
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Don't you know we're riding with the king?
E7 E7 
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A7 A7 
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Bridge 1
D D 
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A tuxedo and shiny 335
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You can see it in his face
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the blue never lie
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Tonight everybody's getting
A7 A7 
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their angel wings

Interlude 1
And don't you know we're riding with the
B7 B7 
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B7 B7 
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(king?) (I stepped out of Mississippi
when I was ten years old)
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A7 A7 
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(With a suit cut sharp as a razor
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and a heart made of gold)
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(I had a guitar hanging just about waist high)
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(And I'm gonna play this thing...)
A7 A7 
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Don't you know we're riding with the

Outro 1
B7 B7 
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king?
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E7 E7 
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A7 A7 
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B7 B7 
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Don't you know we're riding with the king?
B7 B7 
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E7 E7 
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A7 A7 
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B7 B7 
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Don't you know we're riding with the king?
B7 B7 
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E7 E7 
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A7 A7 
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B7 B7 
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Riding, you're riding with the king
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E7 E7 
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[Repeat and fade]

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