Gun Club: "Run Through The Jungle" (from the "Miami" album)
[written by John Fogerty*]
The following three variations of the basic riff are played throughout the song. The numbers in front of the verse lines tell the number of the riff variation to be used. #1: D Em D Em D Em7 D Em -------------7------------------------- -------------8------------------------- --7-9--7-9-7-7---7-9------------------- --7-9--7-9-7-9---7-9--9-7-------------- ----7--------7-----7------10-7-------7- ----0--------------0------------0-10---
#2: D Em D Em D Em7 D Em D Em D Em Em7 -------------7-------------------7-7- -------------8-------------------8-8- --7-9--7-9-7-7---7-9--7-7-9-7----7-7- --7-9--7-9-7-9---7-9--7-7-9-7-7--9-9- ----7--------7-----7----------9--7-7- ----0--------------0-----------------
#3: D Em D Em D Em7 D Em Esus4/D (1 time) -------------7---------7-- -------------8---------10- --7-9--7-9-7-7---7-9---7-- --7-9--7-9-7-9---7-9---9-- ----7--------7-----7---7-- ----0--------------0------ intro: the guitar kicks off with riff #1 accompanied by a stomping bass drum, the bass comes in on the second half on the riff, then follows riff #2 played with the entire band and finally riff #1 is repeated.
(2)
Some are coming on passenger
some coming on a freight
(1)
others will come walking
and none have time to wait
(3) I will run through the jungle
I will run through the jungle
(1) I will run through the jungle
and I won't look back
instrumental = riff #2
(1)
And get me out of this water
before it starts to rise
(2)
I've never been no christian
I don't want to be baptized
(3) I will run through the jungle
I will run through the jungle
(1) I will run through the jungle
and I won't look back
instrumental = riffs in order #1, 1, 1 and 3 (with vocals doing some "hmm" and "uhh"
etc.)
(1)
I started to kill my woman
she lay across the bed
(2)
she looks so ambitious
took back everything I said
(3) I will run through the jungle
I will run through the jungle
(1) I will run through the jungle
and I won't look back
instrumental = riffs in order #1, 3, 1 and 1 (with vocals like before)
I will run through the jungle
I will run through the jungle
I will run through the jungle
and I won't look back
instrumental = riffs in order #1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1 and 1
(with vocals like before as well as chorus)
*note: as JLP writes in his book 'Go Tell The Mountain' he couldn't understand John Fogerty's words, so he wrote the first two verses by himself and took the third from Willie Brown's "M. & O. Blues"