Chords for Don Dokken - I'll Name My Dog Gandalf (1 of 5)
Tempo:
95.4 bpm
Chords used:
B
Eb
G
D
Gb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[B] I was raised in foster homes, you know, orphanage for a while, [G] foster homes.
Had a mother [Em] and father, but they're 16 when I was born, so [D] my dad got shipped off to Korea
[G] and my mom got shipped off to the nuthouse.
So, you know, had a nervous breakdown at a young age, blah, blah, blah.
So I was raised mostly in foster homes, which is the irony of, I could say, wow, what a tragic [Ebm] story.
But if I wouldn't have been [B] raised in foster homes, I probably wouldn't have had a career.
Because [B] even though my father's a musician, so I'm genetically predisposed to music, my
escape in foster homes, when he got eight of us in a two-bedroom, you know, bunk beds
lined up all around the walls, [Gb] my escape was to go in the [B] garage and put on a little 45s
on my guitar and jam to guitars, jam to music.
I had little Kinks records and bro Brommels, I [D] remember my first single was a bro Brommels,
I was like, and a, what was it, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
I like trying to learn incense and peppermints on the guitar.
[Ab] Great little guitar sound.
[Gb] Yeah, that fuzzy thing.
That was like my [Gb] dream, you know, some people dream about being the president, I was dreaming
about someday I could afford a fuzz [N] box.
Yeah.
Once I get a fuzz box, I'm gonna be famous.
That's all I need.
That's a fuzz box.
Because I'll sound like Hendrix and everybody else.
Just give me that little damn big muff.
I want that big muff with that distorted, like, sound like two cars just hitting head on and
I'll sound incredible.
But that's what drove me to play music.
That was my escape.
I played my first [E] concert in the fourth or fifth grade.
That was my class project, like fourth or fifth grade.
I played [N] Louie Louie.
Did you really?
Yeah, with some kid on the [D] drums and I played guitar [Db] and [Eb] I wish I had that on [Ab] film.
Did you sing it?
Yeah, I was singing it.
I played Louie Louie, but you know, as you know, nobody knows the words to Louie Louie.
There's no words.
It's just Louie Louie, oh, oh, baby, we gotta go.
And this, and I love that the government spent, what, two million dollars writing the song?
I mean, how asinine.
They spent a million dollars to try to find out if there was some satanic or sexual connotations
and these experts are taking these special microphones and slowing it down and going,
I think he said vagina.
No, he said, all right now.
It's like, what?
At the end of the whole thing and the Warren Commission and J.
Edgar Hoover, they said,
I hate to tell you this, Hoover, but he's just mumbling.
It's [E] beer.
It's just drunk.
And he's from Jamaica or something like that.
He was a white kid, but he was from like Jamaica and it was slang.
Years later, they talked about it.
He said, it was like a, whoa, what's up, man?
It was like, that was lingo.
It was Jamaican lingo.
So it was like they're eubonics and he just eubonified that song.
So when I sang it in fourth grade, all I knew was Louie, [Eb] Louie, oh, oh, we gotta go.
And I was doing the, you know, I don't know what else.
I remember I was singing something that the teacher wasn't happy [B] about.
It was something about, come on, baby, [Ab] let's do it or something.
I don't know what I was saying.
I was just, you know, I was in the fourth or fifth grade, but [Eb] that's how it all started.
And then it all went downhill from there.
I think I was a terrible student because I think I'm bright.
I thought the teachers were stupid.
Some of the classes I went to, I'd just go, this is so boring.
It's so [B] stupid.
You know, there's your homework for the week.
Oh, you knock it out in an hour.
Now what do I do?
Yeah, but you're a reader, aren't you?
I was.
Aren't you a literary guy?
Used to be.
[Eb] Yeah, I was super literary when I was young.
I was a book freak.
I don't think I've read a book in about four years now.
I read, I just, I don't know what happened.
Television happened, you know, watching an E.
I can learn about history and the pyramids and I get to see them.
But before television, I mean, and we didn't really have a TV in foster homes.
We didn't have a TV.
You had one TV and that was a living room and kids weren't allowed in the living [C] room.
So you read.
[A] You read and you read and you read [B] and you read and you read and you escape.
Something about reading you escape.
I can do a novel when you read like The Hobbit.
Now it's Harry Potter, but I read The Hobbit.
And this Russian guy writes this book and you escape.
Pretty [N] soon you are, I had a dog named Gandalf.
I was like, well, I'll name my dog Gandalf.
No dog will respond to that word.
Just so you know, no dog will respond to the name Gandalf.
You can scream it to the rooftops and he's going, huh?
But yeah, I was really into reading.
I was just, because I didn't want to be stupid when I grew up.
I didn't want to be able to not be able to have a conversation.
Like [C] when I met a few people that were doctors and we became friends.
So I started reading like PDRs, the DSM [Fm]-4s.
I [Eb] go to my shrink, you know, to have [C] therapy and I'm like, [E] what's that book?
Oh, it's a DSM-4.
It's your little handbook for shrinks.
Breaks down your bipolar in grades of one, two, three, and [B] four.
What's the difference between bipolar and depressed?
Am I depressed this much or that much?
And he hands me the book.
Here, now, take the DSM-4.
Oh, there's all kinds of screwed up mental problems people have.
It's like this thick.
You can't say, I thought people were either depressed, manic, [Fm] psychotic,
[Bm] maniacal, or murderers.
Oh no, there's all kinds in between.
So it made you feel pretty good then.
Oh yeah.
I started, I can save [G] myself some money and see.
[B] Depressed, egocentric, egomaniacal?
No, I don't think maniacal.
I think it was George.
I'm more like down here.
Manic depressive, there I am.
One to four, do you wake up more than four days a week upset?
[G] How many times are you happy?
When you get happy, you get super happy.
You just start diagnosing yourself, which is a very dangerous thing to do.
Had a mother [Em] and father, but they're 16 when I was born, so [D] my dad got shipped off to Korea
[G] and my mom got shipped off to the nuthouse.
So, you know, had a nervous breakdown at a young age, blah, blah, blah.
So I was raised mostly in foster homes, which is the irony of, I could say, wow, what a tragic [Ebm] story.
But if I wouldn't have been [B] raised in foster homes, I probably wouldn't have had a career.
Because [B] even though my father's a musician, so I'm genetically predisposed to music, my
escape in foster homes, when he got eight of us in a two-bedroom, you know, bunk beds
lined up all around the walls, [Gb] my escape was to go in the [B] garage and put on a little 45s
on my guitar and jam to guitars, jam to music.
I had little Kinks records and bro Brommels, I [D] remember my first single was a bro Brommels,
I was like, and a, what was it, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
I like trying to learn incense and peppermints on the guitar.
[Ab] Great little guitar sound.
[Gb] Yeah, that fuzzy thing.
That was like my [Gb] dream, you know, some people dream about being the president, I was dreaming
about someday I could afford a fuzz [N] box.
Yeah.
Once I get a fuzz box, I'm gonna be famous.
That's all I need.
That's a fuzz box.
Because I'll sound like Hendrix and everybody else.
Just give me that little damn big muff.
I want that big muff with that distorted, like, sound like two cars just hitting head on and
I'll sound incredible.
But that's what drove me to play music.
That was my escape.
I played my first [E] concert in the fourth or fifth grade.
That was my class project, like fourth or fifth grade.
I played [N] Louie Louie.
Did you really?
Yeah, with some kid on the [D] drums and I played guitar [Db] and [Eb] I wish I had that on [Ab] film.
Did you sing it?
Yeah, I was singing it.
I played Louie Louie, but you know, as you know, nobody knows the words to Louie Louie.
There's no words.
It's just Louie Louie, oh, oh, baby, we gotta go.
And this, and I love that the government spent, what, two million dollars writing the song?
I mean, how asinine.
They spent a million dollars to try to find out if there was some satanic or sexual connotations
and these experts are taking these special microphones and slowing it down and going,
I think he said vagina.
No, he said, all right now.
It's like, what?
At the end of the whole thing and the Warren Commission and J.
Edgar Hoover, they said,
I hate to tell you this, Hoover, but he's just mumbling.
It's [E] beer.
It's just drunk.
And he's from Jamaica or something like that.
He was a white kid, but he was from like Jamaica and it was slang.
Years later, they talked about it.
He said, it was like a, whoa, what's up, man?
It was like, that was lingo.
It was Jamaican lingo.
So it was like they're eubonics and he just eubonified that song.
So when I sang it in fourth grade, all I knew was Louie, [Eb] Louie, oh, oh, we gotta go.
And I was doing the, you know, I don't know what else.
I remember I was singing something that the teacher wasn't happy [B] about.
It was something about, come on, baby, [Ab] let's do it or something.
I don't know what I was saying.
I was just, you know, I was in the fourth or fifth grade, but [Eb] that's how it all started.
And then it all went downhill from there.
I think I was a terrible student because I think I'm bright.
I thought the teachers were stupid.
Some of the classes I went to, I'd just go, this is so boring.
It's so [B] stupid.
You know, there's your homework for the week.
Oh, you knock it out in an hour.
Now what do I do?
Yeah, but you're a reader, aren't you?
I was.
Aren't you a literary guy?
Used to be.
[Eb] Yeah, I was super literary when I was young.
I was a book freak.
I don't think I've read a book in about four years now.
I read, I just, I don't know what happened.
Television happened, you know, watching an E.
I can learn about history and the pyramids and I get to see them.
But before television, I mean, and we didn't really have a TV in foster homes.
We didn't have a TV.
You had one TV and that was a living room and kids weren't allowed in the living [C] room.
So you read.
[A] You read and you read and you read [B] and you read and you read and you escape.
Something about reading you escape.
I can do a novel when you read like The Hobbit.
Now it's Harry Potter, but I read The Hobbit.
And this Russian guy writes this book and you escape.
Pretty [N] soon you are, I had a dog named Gandalf.
I was like, well, I'll name my dog Gandalf.
No dog will respond to that word.
Just so you know, no dog will respond to the name Gandalf.
You can scream it to the rooftops and he's going, huh?
But yeah, I was really into reading.
I was just, because I didn't want to be stupid when I grew up.
I didn't want to be able to not be able to have a conversation.
Like [C] when I met a few people that were doctors and we became friends.
So I started reading like PDRs, the DSM [Fm]-4s.
I [Eb] go to my shrink, you know, to have [C] therapy and I'm like, [E] what's that book?
Oh, it's a DSM-4.
It's your little handbook for shrinks.
Breaks down your bipolar in grades of one, two, three, and [B] four.
What's the difference between bipolar and depressed?
Am I depressed this much or that much?
And he hands me the book.
Here, now, take the DSM-4.
Oh, there's all kinds of screwed up mental problems people have.
It's like this thick.
You can't say, I thought people were either depressed, manic, [Fm] psychotic,
[Bm] maniacal, or murderers.
Oh no, there's all kinds in between.
So it made you feel pretty good then.
Oh yeah.
I started, I can save [G] myself some money and see.
[B] Depressed, egocentric, egomaniacal?
No, I don't think maniacal.
I think it was George.
I'm more like down here.
Manic depressive, there I am.
One to four, do you wake up more than four days a week upset?
[G] How many times are you happy?
When you get happy, you get super happy.
You just start diagnosing yourself, which is a very dangerous thing to do.
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_ [B] I was raised in foster homes, you know, orphanage for a while, [G] foster homes.
Had a mother [Em] and father, but they're 16 when I was born, so [D] my dad got shipped off to Korea
[G] and my mom got shipped off to the nuthouse.
So, you know, had a nervous breakdown at a young age, blah, blah, blah.
So I was raised mostly in foster homes, which is the irony of, I could say, wow, what a tragic [Ebm] story.
But if I wouldn't have been [B] raised in foster homes, I probably wouldn't have had a career.
Because [B] even though my father's a musician, so I'm genetically predisposed to music, my
escape in foster homes, when he got eight of us in a two-bedroom, you know, bunk beds
lined up all around the walls, [Gb] my escape was to go in the [B] garage and put on a little 45s
on my guitar and jam to guitars, jam to music.
I had little Kinks records and bro Brommels, I [D] remember my first single was a bro Brommels,
I was like, and a, what was it, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
I like trying to learn incense and peppermints on the guitar.
[Ab] Great little guitar sound.
[Gb] Yeah, that fuzzy thing.
That was like my [Gb] dream, you know, some people dream about being the president, I was dreaming
about someday I could afford a fuzz [N] box.
Yeah.
Once I get a fuzz box, I'm gonna be famous.
That's all I need.
That's a fuzz box.
Because I'll sound like Hendrix and everybody else.
Just give me that little damn big muff.
I want that big muff with that distorted, like, sound like two cars just hitting head on and
I'll sound incredible.
But that's what drove me to play music.
That was my escape.
I played my first [E] concert in the fourth or fifth grade.
That was my class project, like fourth or fifth grade.
I played [N] Louie Louie.
Did you really?
Yeah, with some kid on the [D] drums and I played guitar [Db] and [Eb] I wish I had that on [Ab] film.
Did you sing it?
Yeah, I was singing it.
I played Louie Louie, but you know, as you know, nobody knows the words to Louie Louie.
There's no words.
It's just Louie Louie, oh, oh, baby, we gotta go.
And this, and _ I love that the government spent, what, two million dollars writing the song?
I mean, how asinine.
They spent a million dollars to try to find out if there was some satanic or sexual connotations
and these experts are taking these special microphones and slowing it down and going,
I think he said vagina.
No, he said, all right now.
It's like, what?
At the end of the whole thing and the Warren Commission and J.
Edgar Hoover, they said,
I hate to tell you this, Hoover, but he's just mumbling.
It's [E] beer.
It's just drunk.
And he's from Jamaica or something like that.
He was a white kid, but he was from like Jamaica and it was slang.
Years later, they talked about it.
He said, it was like a, whoa, what's up, man?
It was like, that was lingo.
It was Jamaican _ lingo. _
So it was like they're eubonics and he just eubonified that song.
So when I sang it in fourth grade, all I knew was Louie, [Eb] Louie, oh, oh, we gotta go.
And I was doing the, you know, I don't know what else.
I remember I was singing something that the teacher wasn't happy [B] about.
It was something about, come on, baby, [Ab] let's do it or something.
I don't know what I was saying.
I was just, you know, I was in the fourth or fifth grade, but [Eb] that's how it all started.
And then it all went downhill from there.
I think I was a terrible student because I think I'm bright.
I thought the teachers were stupid.
Some of the classes I went to, I'd just go, this is so boring.
It's so [B] stupid.
You know, there's your homework for the week.
Oh, you knock it out in an hour.
Now what do I do?
Yeah, but you're a reader, aren't you?
I was.
Aren't you a literary guy?
Used to be.
[Eb] Yeah, I was super literary when I was young.
I was a book freak.
I don't think I've read a book in about four years now.
I read, I just, I don't know what happened.
_ Television happened, you know, watching an E.
I can learn about history and the pyramids and I get to see them.
But before television, I mean, and we didn't really have a TV in foster homes.
We didn't have a TV.
You had one TV and that was a living room and kids weren't allowed in the living [C] room.
So you read.
[A] You read and you read and you read [B] and you read and you read and you escape.
Something about reading you escape.
I can do a novel when you read like The Hobbit.
Now it's Harry Potter, but I read The Hobbit.
And this Russian guy writes this book and you escape.
Pretty [N] soon you are, I had a dog named Gandalf.
I was like, well, I'll name my dog Gandalf.
No dog will respond to that word.
Just so you know, no dog will respond to the name Gandalf.
You can scream it to the rooftops and he's going, huh? _ _
But yeah, I was really into reading.
I was just, because I didn't want to be stupid when I grew up.
I didn't want to be able to not be able to have a conversation.
Like [C] when I met a few people that were doctors and we became friends.
So I started reading like PDRs, the DSM [Fm]-4s.
I [Eb] go to my shrink, you know, to have [C] therapy and I'm like, [E] what's that book?
Oh, it's a DSM-4.
It's your little handbook for shrinks.
Breaks down your bipolar in grades of one, two, three, and [B] four.
What's the difference between bipolar and depressed?
Am I depressed this much or that much?
And he hands me the book.
Here, now, take the DSM-4.
_ Oh, there's all kinds of screwed up mental problems people have.
It's like this thick.
You can't say, I thought people were either depressed, manic, [Fm] psychotic,
[Bm] maniacal, or murderers.
Oh no, there's all kinds in between.
So it made you feel pretty good then.
Oh yeah.
I started, I can save [G] myself some money and see.
_ _ [B] Depressed, egocentric, _ egomaniacal?
No, I don't think maniacal.
I think it was George.
I'm more like down here.
Manic depressive, there I am.
One to four, do you wake up more than four days a week upset?
[G] How many times are you happy?
When you get happy, you get super happy.
You just start diagnosing yourself, which is a very dangerous thing to do. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] I was raised in foster homes, you know, orphanage for a while, [G] foster homes.
Had a mother [Em] and father, but they're 16 when I was born, so [D] my dad got shipped off to Korea
[G] and my mom got shipped off to the nuthouse.
So, you know, had a nervous breakdown at a young age, blah, blah, blah.
So I was raised mostly in foster homes, which is the irony of, I could say, wow, what a tragic [Ebm] story.
But if I wouldn't have been [B] raised in foster homes, I probably wouldn't have had a career.
Because [B] even though my father's a musician, so I'm genetically predisposed to music, my
escape in foster homes, when he got eight of us in a two-bedroom, you know, bunk beds
lined up all around the walls, [Gb] my escape was to go in the [B] garage and put on a little 45s
on my guitar and jam to guitars, jam to music.
I had little Kinks records and bro Brommels, I [D] remember my first single was a bro Brommels,
I was like, and a, what was it, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
I like trying to learn incense and peppermints on the guitar.
[Ab] Great little guitar sound.
[Gb] Yeah, that fuzzy thing.
That was like my [Gb] dream, you know, some people dream about being the president, I was dreaming
about someday I could afford a fuzz [N] box.
Yeah.
Once I get a fuzz box, I'm gonna be famous.
That's all I need.
That's a fuzz box.
Because I'll sound like Hendrix and everybody else.
Just give me that little damn big muff.
I want that big muff with that distorted, like, sound like two cars just hitting head on and
I'll sound incredible.
But that's what drove me to play music.
That was my escape.
I played my first [E] concert in the fourth or fifth grade.
That was my class project, like fourth or fifth grade.
I played [N] Louie Louie.
Did you really?
Yeah, with some kid on the [D] drums and I played guitar [Db] and [Eb] I wish I had that on [Ab] film.
Did you sing it?
Yeah, I was singing it.
I played Louie Louie, but you know, as you know, nobody knows the words to Louie Louie.
There's no words.
It's just Louie Louie, oh, oh, baby, we gotta go.
And this, and _ I love that the government spent, what, two million dollars writing the song?
I mean, how asinine.
They spent a million dollars to try to find out if there was some satanic or sexual connotations
and these experts are taking these special microphones and slowing it down and going,
I think he said vagina.
No, he said, all right now.
It's like, what?
At the end of the whole thing and the Warren Commission and J.
Edgar Hoover, they said,
I hate to tell you this, Hoover, but he's just mumbling.
It's [E] beer.
It's just drunk.
And he's from Jamaica or something like that.
He was a white kid, but he was from like Jamaica and it was slang.
Years later, they talked about it.
He said, it was like a, whoa, what's up, man?
It was like, that was lingo.
It was Jamaican _ lingo. _
So it was like they're eubonics and he just eubonified that song.
So when I sang it in fourth grade, all I knew was Louie, [Eb] Louie, oh, oh, we gotta go.
And I was doing the, you know, I don't know what else.
I remember I was singing something that the teacher wasn't happy [B] about.
It was something about, come on, baby, [Ab] let's do it or something.
I don't know what I was saying.
I was just, you know, I was in the fourth or fifth grade, but [Eb] that's how it all started.
And then it all went downhill from there.
I think I was a terrible student because I think I'm bright.
I thought the teachers were stupid.
Some of the classes I went to, I'd just go, this is so boring.
It's so [B] stupid.
You know, there's your homework for the week.
Oh, you knock it out in an hour.
Now what do I do?
Yeah, but you're a reader, aren't you?
I was.
Aren't you a literary guy?
Used to be.
[Eb] Yeah, I was super literary when I was young.
I was a book freak.
I don't think I've read a book in about four years now.
I read, I just, I don't know what happened.
_ Television happened, you know, watching an E.
I can learn about history and the pyramids and I get to see them.
But before television, I mean, and we didn't really have a TV in foster homes.
We didn't have a TV.
You had one TV and that was a living room and kids weren't allowed in the living [C] room.
So you read.
[A] You read and you read and you read [B] and you read and you read and you escape.
Something about reading you escape.
I can do a novel when you read like The Hobbit.
Now it's Harry Potter, but I read The Hobbit.
And this Russian guy writes this book and you escape.
Pretty [N] soon you are, I had a dog named Gandalf.
I was like, well, I'll name my dog Gandalf.
No dog will respond to that word.
Just so you know, no dog will respond to the name Gandalf.
You can scream it to the rooftops and he's going, huh? _ _
But yeah, I was really into reading.
I was just, because I didn't want to be stupid when I grew up.
I didn't want to be able to not be able to have a conversation.
Like [C] when I met a few people that were doctors and we became friends.
So I started reading like PDRs, the DSM [Fm]-4s.
I [Eb] go to my shrink, you know, to have [C] therapy and I'm like, [E] what's that book?
Oh, it's a DSM-4.
It's your little handbook for shrinks.
Breaks down your bipolar in grades of one, two, three, and [B] four.
What's the difference between bipolar and depressed?
Am I depressed this much or that much?
And he hands me the book.
Here, now, take the DSM-4.
_ Oh, there's all kinds of screwed up mental problems people have.
It's like this thick.
You can't say, I thought people were either depressed, manic, [Fm] psychotic,
[Bm] maniacal, or murderers.
Oh no, there's all kinds in between.
So it made you feel pretty good then.
Oh yeah.
I started, I can save [G] myself some money and see.
_ _ [B] Depressed, egocentric, _ egomaniacal?
No, I don't think maniacal.
I think it was George.
I'm more like down here.
Manic depressive, there I am.
One to four, do you wake up more than four days a week upset?
[G] How many times are you happy?
When you get happy, you get super happy.
You just start diagnosing yourself, which is a very dangerous thing to do. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _