The first verse that I played for you, and again, I'm not patterning this after any specific Robert Johnson song, I'm just going to play these typical licks that he played a lot. So once I come out of the turnaround in the first verse, I'm gonna slide into this Ha. And I've got my open, fifth thumping really aggressively. So much so that I'm getting the fourth string. And then I'm picking as I slide it down. Then I'm putting my first finger on the fifth fret of the first string, making a diminished chord.
I'm sliding back into it. Listen to His recordings little queen of spades I guess Come on in my kitchen I just I get all the songs mixed up in any Robert Johnson tin in the key of A he pretty much does this so we got we could just leave it there play this or she saw me do that went to a seventh lick here so all that is is that a seventh that we started the song with? Move it down one fret. So the first first if I'm remembering right, I played this right they're just giving it a quick update And then putting the pinky down. So it's thinking too much trying to remember what I showed you. But I'm really all these verses, you're taking a few basic licks and just combining them in all sorts of different ways.
So then when we go to the four, we're going to this D seven and I'm just dump them on the bass with my thumb on the second fret of the sixth string. And every now and then you'll hear him get the sixth string and then quickly put his thumb back down. And we're gonna go back to that a shape that lick right here, we're going Just putting my pinkie down for one pic, take it off again. And then moving back into that a shape. So listen to this. And then right there, we can play that straight through or we can do something like this.
And we'll talk about that here in a little bit. But the first time we're just playing it straight through. And then when he goes to the five, it's the seventh D seven. We get the Ha. And then we wrap up the verse with that turn around. So let me try to play the first verse that I played in the original part of the song If I get some things wrong I could go back and look at it.
Let's just do it. So let's start out with the beginning of the song first verse. And here we have the first verse.