title: Riding With The King Solo)
key: Blues
harp type: Chromatic
genre: B
skill: Intermediate

Riding With The King (Chromatic Solo)
Words & Music by John Haitt
From the album of the same name
Key of A Major changing to B Major
Range: A3 to B5
This solo includes the adapted guitar intro and Eric
Clapton’s vocal part from the duet of the same name.
It does not include B.B. King’s vocals or Recitation.
Tab notations:
none = blow – = draw * = button in
__ = hold . = lower register ~~ = wavering hand cup
-5_-5* = slide smoothly from note to note
-2*3 = The -2* is a grace note. Blow 3 is the main note.
(notes with no spaces or hold lines are grace notes)
Intro: -.3 2 -.3 -2* -.3 -2*3 -.3 -2* -.3 -2*3 -.3
3* -3~~ -.3 2 -.3 -2* -.3 -2*3 -.3 -2* -.3 -2*3 -.3
-2* -.3 3* -.3 -2*___ -2* -4 -5* -5* 2 2*
-5* -5* -3_ -5* -4
3* -2* -2* 3* -4 -4_ -4_ -2* -3 -4_ -5_-5*_
I dreamed I had a good job and I got well – paid.__
3* -4 -4 -5*_ -4 -4 -5 -4 -4_ -4___
I blew it all_ at the pen-ny ar_-cade.
-4 -4 -5* -2* -2* -2* -4 -4_ -5_6_
Our hard earned dol-lars on a cup-id_ doll.
3* -4 3* -5* -4 -4 6 -5_ -4 -4___
No pret-ty chick is gon-na make me crawl.
-6* -6* -6* -6* 6_-5 6_-4
Get on a T. W.__ A.__
-5* -5* -5* 6 6_-5*_-4__
to the Prom-ised Land._____
-6 6 -56 -4 -5*_ -5* -4-5__
Ev-‘ry wo-man, child, and man__
-4 -4 -6 6 -5_6
gets a Cad-il-ac__
6 -4 -5_ -4 6 -5 6_-5_-4____
and a great big dia-mond ring.______
6 -5 6 -5* -6 -5* 6 -4
Don’t you know you’re rid-in’ with The
-6*__6_-5_-4__-5*_-4_
King?________________
-2* -2* -2* -4 -4 -4 -5* -3-2*
He’s on a mis-sion of mer-cy
3* -2* -4 -4_ -5_-5*_
to a new fron-tier.__
-3 -4 5* -5 -4 -4 -4 -5 -4 -4_____
He’s gon-na check us all out, out of here.__
-3 -4 -4 6 -2* -3 -4_ 7*__
Up to that man-sion on the hill,
-3 -4 -4 -5* -4 -4 -5* -3*_-2* -3_-4_
where you can get your pre – scrip – tion_ filled
-6* -6-6* -6* -6* -6_-5 6_-4
Get on a T. W.__ A.__
-5 -5 -5 6 -5_6__-5_-4_
to the Prom-ised Land________
-6* 6 6 6 6__ -5 -4_-5__
Ev-‘ry-bod-y, clap your hands.
-4 -5 -4 -5 -5
And don’t you girls love
-4 -5 -5 -4 -5__-6*_6__-5_-4__
the way that it seems_____________
6 -5* 6 -5* -5 4* 6 -5 -6*__6_-5_-4_____
Don’t you know we’re rid-in’ with The King?____________
-4 6 -5 6 -6* 6_-5_-4__
We’re rid-in’ with the King.____
6 -5 6 -5 6 -5* 6 -5*
Don’t you know you’re rid-in’ with The
-6*___6_-5_-4______
King?______________
-3 -6* -6* -6* -6* -6* -6* -6* -6*
A tux – e – do and a shin-y Three-
-6*_6 -5* 6_-5*__-4_-5*____
thir – ty – five.____________
-6* -6* -6* -6* -6* -6* -6*_
You can see it in his face,
-3 -6* 6 -5 6_-5_-4____
the blues is his life.______
-4 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5_
To-night, ev-‘ry-bod-y’s get-tin’ their
-6* -5 6_______
an-gel wings.__
-3 6 -5 6 -5* 6 -5* 6 -5* 6_-6*__-4______
And don’t you know we’re rid-in’ with The King?__________
B.B. King’s Recitation
-4 6 -5 6 -5 6 -5 6 -4 6_-6*________
Well, don’t you know we’re rid-in’ with The King?________
6 -5* 6 -5* 6 -5* 6 -5* -6*__-5_-4__-6*_-4__
Don’t you know you’re rid-in’ with The King?_______________
6__ -5* 6 -5* 6 -5 6 -5* -6*__-7_______
Don’t you know you’re rid-in’ with the King?_________
-3 6 -8 -5* 6 -5* 6 -5* -6*__6-6*_-5_-4___
You’re rid-in’, You’re rid-in with The King?_____________
-5 6 -5
You’re rid-in’,
-5 6 -5* 6 -5* -6*__-8___-6*_-5_-4_-5-5*__
you’re rid-in’ with The King._____________________
6 -5* 6 -5* 6_-5_-4___
Rid-in’ with The King._____
6 -5* 6 -5* -6*__6*_-6*___-4_-5_6__
Rid-in’ with The King.__________________
6 -5* -4 -2* -4_-5__
Rid-in’ with The King.__
(Begin fade)
6 -5* 6 -5* -6*__-8_____
Rid-in with The King._______
6 -5* 6 -6* 6_-5_-4_-5__
Rid-in’ with The King._______
(Fade out)
6 -5* 6 -5* 6 -5* 6 -5* -6*_-8________
Don’t you know you’re rid-in’ with The King?_________