Hound Dog | Chords + Lyrics
Verse 1
| N.C | C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, cryin’ all the time.
| F | F7 F | C7 | C7 |
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, cryin’ all the time.
| G (G7) | F (F7) | N.C | N.C |
Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine.
Verse 2
| C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
Well, they said you was high-classed. Well, that was just a lie.
| F | F F7 | C7 | C7 |
Yeah, they said you was high-classed. Well, that was just a lie.
| G (G7) | F (F7) | N.C | N.C |
Yeah, you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine.
Verse 3
| C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, cryin’ all the time.
| F | F7 F | C7 | C7 |
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, cryin’ all the time.
| G (G7) | F (F7) | N.C | N.C |
Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine.
Solo 1
| C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
| F (F7) | F (F7) | C7 | C7 |
| G (G7) | F (F7) | C7 | C7 |
Verse 4
| C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
Well, they said you was high-classed. Well, that was just a lie.
| F | F7 F | C7 | C7 |
Yeah, they said you was high-classed. Well, that was just a lie.
| G (G7) | F (F7) | N.C | N.C |
Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine.
Solo 2
| C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
| F (F7) | F (F7) | C7 | C7 |
| G (G7) | F (F7) | C7 | C7 |
Verse 5
| C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
Well, they said you was high-classed. Well, that was just a lie.
| F | F7 F | C7 | C7 |
Yeah, they said you was high-classed. Well, that was just a lie.
| G (G7) | F (F7) | N.C | N.C |
Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine.
Verse 6
| C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, cryin’ all the time.
| F | F7 F | C7 | C7 |
You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog, cryin’ all the time.
| G (G7) N.C | N.C | N.C | Db6/9 C6/9 |
Well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine
Hound Dog’s chords, progressions, and TAB
A classic among early Rock N Roll tunes, Elvis‘s Hound Dog shook the world and got all the girls screaming.
It wasn’t actually his own composition, or a tune written for him as he would experience later in his career, Hound Dog was a Big Mama Thornton cover, but Elvis certainly made it his own.
The writers, Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, initially didn’t like Elvis’s version. Apparently, it sounded too white, but claimed that 7-8 million sales later, it started to sound better to them!
What exact chords Elvis himself plays on the acoustic is not that interesting or important, it’s what his side man, Scotty Moore, does that we all want to find out more about.
Or perhaps even more importantly, what can you do if called upon to play Hound Dog in a live band?
As a member, I’ll give you the essential bits (using TAB of course) so you can play this Elvis classic in a band, as the only guitarist.
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