Bubba Ho Tep Chords & Tabs
Artist: unknown, but he's got skill
Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep
Title: wasn't credited, I think I'll call it "Bubba Ho-Tep, the Wicked Theme
Song!!"
For those who follow the Bruce Campbell series, I salute you, he is an under
credited actor. Spread him to all your friends, especially his best movie, "The
Army of Darkness". I was appalled to see that there are no tabs for this song,
which is played several times throughout BH-T. This is as close as I came, its
pretty good. For better timing play along with the movie, this is scene seven
on DVD, for VHS, this is where he explains the switch between him and Sebastian
Hath. I think it's about a 20 mins in, but not certain. Enjoy : )
Luke Maas
Tuning: standard
These chords are played slowly throughout the song in this order:
Em C G D
[--0--] [--0--] [--3--] [--3--]
[--0--] [--1--] [--0--] [--2--]
[--0--] [--0--] [--0--] [--3--]
[--2--] [--2--] [--0--] [--0--]
[--2--] [--3--] [--2--] [--0--]
[--0--] [--0--] [--3--] [--0--]
Em C G D (Plays once with each solo, is used as an intro, and as a random
filler)
Fades out with a: Em D C
Then lightly strum Em up and down four times
Continue to strum Em with down strokes (four times) noting else is
happening in the song, so I think that the soloing guitar is playing the
3rd string with each Em down stroke, it sounds extra pronounced.
Then it goes to an ending solo, which is still Em C G D
- I hope that makes sense, print it out and read along
to the movie before actually playing, to see if you
get it. It's actually really simple.
Solos:
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[---5--5-7/b5----5--7-b9--9-12/9-b7----5/4/5-----------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/misc_movies/bubba_ho_tep_tab.html ]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
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[---3---3-3/5/b3-----3--5--7----7--7--5---5--3/2/3-----------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
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[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[---3-5/b3---3--5-b7---10/7--5-b3-3/2-0~---------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------2----------------------------------------------2------------------------]
[---0--0---2/3/2p0-----0-3/5/3p0-----0-2/3/2p0-----0--0-2/3/2p0----------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[--------------------------------------2---------------------------------------]
[---0--0-3/5/3-----0--0-2/3/2p0-----0--0-2/3/2p0-------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
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[---5--5-7/b5----5--7-b9--9-12/9-b7--------------------------------------------]
[------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
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That's the basics. Like I said, play it with the movie, its really easy. It’s not
perfect, but have fun with it. I hear the Simpsons song in the other room, I've
got about 8 seconds, gotta go.
