Boris The Spider Guitar Tab

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Boris the Spider
By The Who
>From A Quick One/Happy Jack, 1967
Written by John Entwistle

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transcribed by
litgo@aol.com
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D5    x577xx
Db5   x466xx
C5    x355xx
B5    x244xx
Bb5   x133xx
F5    133xxx
G5    3x0033


[intro]
|D5 Db5 C5 B5 Bb5   F5 |G5     |D5 Db5 C5 B5 Bb5   F5 |G5     |

[verse]
|D     D    Bb  Bb   F  F  G G |C        |
 Look, he's crawling up my wall
|C     C   G   G  Bb Bb F  F |G        |
 Black and hairy, ve-ry small
|C   C    G  G Bb   Bb F  F |C        |
 Now he's up a-bove my head
|C   C   G  G Bb Bb  F  F  |G        |
 Hanging by a little thread

[chorus]
|D Db C B   Bb F  |G     |D Db C B   Bb F  |G     |
 Boris  the spider        Boris  the spider

Now he's dropped on to the floor
Heading for the bedroom door
Maybe he's as scared as me
Where's he gone now, I can't see

[repeat chorus]
Boris the spider
Boris the spider

|F# G F# G F# G F# G|F# G F# G F# G F# G|
 Cree-py,  craw-ly   Cree-py,  craw-ly
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|4-/54-/54-/54-/5|---------%---------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|

||:F#   G  F#   G  F#   G  F#   G:||4
   Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||.------------------------------.||
||.4---/5-4---/5-4---/5-4---/5.||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||

There he is wrapped in a ball
Doesn't seem to move at all
Perhaps he's dead, I'll just make sure
Pick this book up off the floor

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

Creepy, crawly
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly

He's come to a sticky end (creepy, crawly)
Don't think he will ever mend (creepy, crawly)
Never more will he crawl 'round (creepy, crawly)
He's embedded in the ground (creepy, crawly)

Boris the spider
Boris the spider

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Dan Lead Player	#1 by Dan archy at Feb 22, 1970 at 1:51 PM EST
	Yeah, I don't think there's really any deeper meaning to this song...I read in a book that it was about John's arachnophobia.

No Picture Toni Average	#2 by Toni at Jan 17, 1979 at 10:43 PM EST
	I've had a few pet tarantulas and i named them all boris. Those low and high notes are awesome. Sleep Peacefully John.

No Picture CHUNK ZIZZLE Rhythm Player	#3 by CHUNK ZIZZLE at Oct 26, 2000 at 7:50 PM EST
	topace is crazy. this is not a metaphor for anything. i assure you.

No Picture IvZ Average	#4 by IvZ at May 31, 2003 at 12:57 AM EST
	definetly high

No Picture Jacob Lead Player	#5 by Jacob Julian at Oct 19, 2005 at 11:40 AM EST
	wasnt there a cartoon that went along with this? somewhere in my childhood i reme,ber watching a cartoon with this song. does anyone else?

No Picture Andrew Wanna Be	#6 by Andrew Long at Dec 3, 2005 at 7:58 PM EST
	It's about arachnaphobia. I love drug-induced inspiration because it seems to make the mind go to places nobody ever imagined. I played this song and it annoyed my youngest sister to no end. It is one of the funniest songs of all time. Kudos to the master of all bass players!

No Picture Avinash Average	#7 by Avinash Dutta at Jan 8, 2006 at 12:41 AM EST
	Really funny song. Makes me smile. I played this a bunch of times and my whole family was about to shoot me cuz they got so annoyd. :D

No Picture Crystal Average	#8 by Crystal at May 27, 2006 at 9:23 PM EST
	Entwhistle wrote this because he was afraid of spiders when he was a child. I also heard another theory in which "Boris the Spider" represented the Soviet Union, which creeped and crawled to execute their "evil deeds", which means The Who was making fun of the paranoia of the Cold War at the time.

No Picture metalis4ever Average	#9 by metalis4ever at Jun 3, 2006 at 1:01 AM EST
	Actually on "Left for Live", John explains the meaning of the song. It's a song dedicated to his pet spider which had died a couple of days prior to him writing the song. "This one's for Doris the spider, it's called Boris the Spider."

No Picture Brandon Average	#10 by Brandon Weathers at Jan 26, 2007 at 8:44 PM EST
	this was the most requested song at their concerts

No Picture Devin Average	#11 by Devin Moreno at May 7, 2007 at 9:20 AM EST
	K each member had to write a song or 2 for the album at least, and the producers would give them a lot of money, so they did it, and this was one that John Entwhistle did, cuz he usually didn't usually write songs. He wasn't high, he wasn't making fun of the Soviet, he just wanted to have a fun song and express himself. Well, he really made it fun :D I have to admit at random times I just start singing "Creepy, Crawly, Creepy, Crawly, Creepy Creepy, Crawly Crawly" etc. :D

No Picture John Lead Player	#12 by John Fitch at Jul 3, 2007 at 5:15 PM EST
	Hahaha that's awesome. This song is great, pure fun