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You Shook Me All Night Long Guitar Tablature
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
(Young/Johnson/Young)

Okay, I've been all over the internet and looked at a bunch
of different tabs for this song, and NONE OF THEM WERE 
CORRECT!!! Which is why I tabbed this.  Anyways...

h=hammer on
p=pull off
b=bend
r=release bend
~=vibrato
/=slide up
=slide down

The intro goes like this:

Standard tuning, let ring
e|3-------------5-|--3-3---32-----|----------------|
B|3-------------3-|--3-3-------3---|3-------------3-|
G|0-------------0-|--0-0---------2-|2-------------2-|
D|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0---------|0-0-0-0-0-3h4-0-|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|


|----------------|3-------------5-|--3-3---32-----|
|----------3-----|3-------------3-|--3-3-------3---|
|------------2---|0-------------0-|--0-0---------2-|
|--0-0-3h4-----0-|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0---------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|


|----------------|----------------|
|3---------------|----------------|
|2---------------|----------------|
|0---------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|

Then it goes into the chords.  The three chords used during
the verse are:

          G        C        D
        EADGBE   EADGBE   EADGBE
        320003   032010   xx0232

They are used in a four-bar pattern like so:

|G   C | C G C G | D  G | G D G|

She was a fast machine
She kept my motor clean
She was the best *** woman that I
Ever seen,
She had the sightless eyes
Tellin' me no lies
Knockin' me out with those American thighs
Takin' more than her share
Had me fightin' for air,
She told me to come
But I was already there
'Cause the walls started shakin'
The earth was quakin'

At this point, the D chord is strummed repeatedly during the
last two lines leading up to the chorus:

My mind was achin'
We were makin' it and

Chorus
|----3-----------|----------------|
|----0-----------|----------------|
|----0-----------|--0-------0-----|
|----0-----------|----0-------0---|
|----2-----0-2-3-|------2-------0-|
|3---3---3-------|----------------|
 You  shook me all___  night__ long

                          (repeat)*
|----2-----------|----------------|
|----3-----------|----------------|
|----2-----------|--0-------0-----|
|----0-----------|----0-------0---|
|----------0-2-3-|------2---------|
|----------------|--------------3-|
                             
*When repeating, leave out the first note in the first bar
of the chorus - the same note should carry over from the 
repeat.

Second verse:

Workin' double time on the seduction line
She was one of a kind, she was mine, all mine
Wanted no applause, just another cause
Made a meal outta me, and come back for more
Had to cool me down to take another round
Now I'm back in the ring to take another swing

'Cause the walls were shakin'...
(back to chorus)

The bridge from the chorus to the solo alternates between
a D chord and a modified G:

              D       mod. G
          
            EADGBE    EADGBE
            xx0232    xx0033

Riff under the solo:

|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|--------------0-|
|----------0-2-3-|------2---------|
|3-------3-------|----------------|

                            repeat
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|
|----------0-2-3-|------2---------|
|----------------|--------------3-|

Now for the solo:

   hold bend
|----------------|3---1-----------|----------------|
|2b3-------------|-b3---3r2-------|----------------|
|----------------|-----------3p0--|0-------0-------|
|----------------|--------------0-|----------3-0---|
|----------------|----------------|--------------3-|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|


|----------------|----------------|----3-3---0-3-3-|
|----------------|----------3-6-6-|--3-------------|
|------3~~~~-0---|----3-----------|----------------|
|----------------|5~~~------------|----------------|
|--1-------------|----------------|----------------|
|----3-----------|----------------|----------------|


|6b7-65-3~~---8-|--6-----------15~~~~~~~~~~~~~---15-13p10-|
|----------------|----8-5-8---8---|------------------------|
|----------------|----------------|------------------------|
|----------------|----------------|------------------------|
|----------------|----------------|------------------------|
|----------------|----------------|------------------------|


|------------------------|------13----------------|
|13-11-------13-11-------|14b15----14b15----------|
|------12----------12----|---------------17-15----|
|------------------------|---------------------17-|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

                                         pre-bent
|---------------------20-|---19~~~~~~~---18r17-15-|
|17-15-17-15-------------|------------------------|
|17-15-17-15-------------|------------------------|
|------------------17----|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

                          pre-bent
|17----15-13b15----------|------------------------|
|---17-------------------|15r14----14b15----------|
|------------------------|------12----------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

             pre-bent
|------15----18r17----15-|
|---17-------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
   You really took me and you...

The song jumps back into the chorus here.  After the chorus,
the D chord is strummed progressively louder and louder,
culminating in a final chord, which is immediately muted, to
end the song.
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