=|==2-2-2-2--0---2---o||-2-2-2--2-2=|===2===|==2-------|| ||o--2---2---2--2--0=|==0-0-0-0--0---0---o||-2-2-2--2-0=|===0===|==0-------|| ||---0---0---0--0----|--------------------||-0-0-0--0---|-------|----------|| ||-------------------|-----------3--------||------------|-------|----------|| 1 2 3 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 4 1 2 3 4 &---1234----123 [*:: end of 2nd Chorus, go to PART C-2 from here...] [**:: middle of 3th Chorus, go to Part C-3 from here...] **CHORUS 1: [PART C-1] I'm on a Highway to Hell-- On the Highway to Hell-- Highway to Hell-- On the Highway to Hell-- **VERSE 2: [a` la Verse 1] No stop signs-- speed limit-- Nobody's gonna slow me down-- Like a wheel, gonna spin it-- Nobody's gonna mess me around-- Hey, Satan--payin' my dues-- Playin' in a rockin' band-- Hey, mama, look at me-- I'm on my way to the {E5} Promised Land-- [oh, poor Bon Scott!...] **CHORUS 2: [PART C-1-->C-2] I'm on a Highway to Hell-- Highway to Hell-- I'm on the Highway to Hell-- Highway to Hell-- [to PART C-2] --Don't stop now-- %PART C-2 ["tag" to Chorus2]-- D G D D G D G D G |--2-----3-----2===|======2-----------|--2-----3-----2===|=2--3----2---3---|| |--3-----3-----3===|======3-----------|--3-----3-----3===|=3--3----3---3---|| |--2-----0-----2===|======2-----------|--2-----0-----2===|=2--0----2---0---|| |--0-----0-----0===|======0-----------|--0-----0-----0===|=0--0----0---0---|| |------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|| |--------3---------|------------------|--------3---------|----3--------3---|| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4---------1234 1 & 2 & 3 & 4&----1 &2& 3 4 "--Don't stop now--" **LEAD TACIT [played over PART C-1] (I woulda trancribed Angus's lead, but I thought, hell, YOU can do just as well, jammin' on the A pentatonic minor scale! . . . Of course, a Gibson SG would help!) **CHORUS 3: [PART C-1-->C-3] I'm on a Highway to Hell-- On a Highway to Hell-- I'm on a Highway to Hell-- On a Highway to[stutter-pause: PART C-3] %PART C-3 [stutter-pause in middle of 3rd Chorus]-- A5 D [lead gu. descending smear] |---------------.--|------------------| |---------------3--|-\-\-\------------| |--2--2--2---2--2--|--\-\-\-----------| |--2--2--2---2--0--|---\-\-\----------| |--0--0--0---0--0--|----\-\-\---------| |------------------|------------------| 1 2 3 4 & "High__way to--"[stop] **CHORUS 3 (continued) [PART C-1...] Highway to Hell--{I'm on a Highway to Hell}Highway to Hell-- {Highway to Hell}Highway to Hell--{Highway to}Highway to Hell [after Held-D chord:] And I'm goin' down-- all the way-- [then--A5 thirty-second-note extended strum (cliche 70's coda)] I'm on the Highway to Hell. [then--single staccato A5] *===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===* | Thomas C. Gannon | tgannon@charlie.usd.edu | U of SoDak (Vermillion) | * ------------------------------- _-^-_ ------------------------------- * | "--If I decide to practice a / o )=\ slight movement from right | * to left . . . or from left { /===} to right . . . it's * | nobody's business but my \ (=o=/ own." (_A_Day_for_Eeyore_) | *===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===* ^-_=^ *===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------