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Wag The Dog by Mark Knopfler
Wag The Dog
Employed chords:
D9(no5): x54530
F: xx7565
E: xx6454
A5: x77x55
D7: xx757x
Bm/5-: xx976x
Bb: xx876x
A: xx765x
Intro D9(no5) then
D9(no5)
Now you can do the watusi
You can do it if you try
Any puppy Dog or pussy
Can do the jerk or do the fly
F E
Now you can do the wooly bully
A5
But can you pull the wooly wooly
Can you wag can you wag the dog
D7 Bm/5- Bb A
D9(no5)
You got the shimmy and the hustle
It's all the rage downtown
Yeh you don't have to have the muscle
To get into the mess around
F E
Cos' you can do the wooly bully
A5
But can you pull the wooly wooly
Can you wag can you wag the dog
D7 Bm/5- Bb A
D7
So make him sit make him stay
Come to heel go play
Roll him over lie still
Make him go kill attaboy D7 Bm/5-
Bb A
Wag that dog baby
D9(no5)
You have had the duck and mashed potato
Funky chicken on a roll
Move on up a little later
To the monkey and the stroll
F E
Now you can do the wooly bully
A5
But can you pull the wooly wooly
Can you wag can you wag the dog D7 Bm/5-
Bb A
Mmm wag the dog!
D7
Now go bow bow wow wow
Now go woof woof woof woof
D7 Bm/5-
Yeh that's right wag the dog
The locomotion boogaloo
The hully gully and the limbo too
Wag that dog
Yeh hitchhike for me baby
Now we're barefootin'
The funky funky penguin
That's the bug and that's the frug
Yeh but can you wag
Wag the dog can you wag the dog
Wag the dog can you wag the dog
Additional tips:
Something looking like the intro:
D9no5
E||--------------------------|-------------------------|
B||-----------------------3--|--------3--3----------3--|
G||--------5--5--------5-----|--------5--5--5----5--5--|
D||-----4--4--4-----4--4-----|-----4--4--4--4----4--4--|
A||--5-----5--5--5-----5-----|--5-----5--5--5----5--5--|
E||--------------------------|-------------------------|
-----------------------0--|--------------------------||
-----------3--------3--3--|-----------3--------3--3--||
--------5--5--------5--5--|--------5--5--------5--5--||
-----4--4--4-----4--4--4--|-----4--4--4-----4--4-----||
--5-----5--5--5-----5--5--|--5-----5--5--5-----5-----||
--------------------------|--------------------------||
Here's a way to play the D7 Bm/5- riff:
D7 Bm/5-
E||-------5-----------------|-------------------------||
B||-------7--7-----7--------|--6-----6--6-------6--6--||
G||-------5--5--------------|--7-----7--7-------7--7--||
D||--7----------7-----7--8--|-----9--9--9----9--9--9--||
A||--5----------------------|-------------------------||
E||-------------------------|-------------------------||
All along the sound you can hear a rythm guitar played by Richard
Bennett (maybe on his Gretsch). This track mostly features something like that:
E||--------------------------|-------------------------||
B||--------------------------|-------------------------||
G||--2--4--2--0--2--4--2--0--|--2--2--4--5----2--2--2--||
D||--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--||
A||--------------------------|-------------------------||
E||--------------------------|-------------------------||
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