Chord/Tab song: Handsome Johnny

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Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny


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Tabbed By: Adam O'Neil ([email protected])
Email: [email protected]
Notes: This is the woodstock version of Richie Havens classic, Handsome
Johnny. There is a woodstock DVD going round with some great
footage of this track and I worked it out from that.
Tuning: Open D (D,A,D,F#,A,D)

Chords -

D - (OOOOOO)
E9- (222220)
[A] [-] [(777777)]
[B9-] [(777775)]
Strumming Style - Fast (8/sec roughly)
Playing Style - Played with thumb to bar whole fret. Pull thumb off E9 to play
open for a couple of strums ad lib.

Intro - E9,D,E9,D

[A]Hey look yonde[B9]r, [E9]tell me w[D]hat's tha[E9]t you see[D],

[A]marching to th[B9]e f[E9]ields o f [D]Concord [E9][D]

[A]It look s like [B9]H an[E9]dsome Joh[D]nny with [E9]a musket [D]in his hand

[B9]Marching to the Concord [D]war. [E9] [D]Hey, [B9]Marchi ng to the concor [D]d war. [E9][D]

Break - E9,D,E9,D

Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Gettysburg
It looks like Handsome Johnny with flintlock in his hand
Marching to the Gettysburg war, Hey marching to the Gettysburg war

INTERLUDE:

Hey, it's a [A]long [B9]hard [E9]road, It's a [A]long [B9]hard [E9]road
It's a [A]long [B9]hard [E9]road before we'll be free.

Hey look yonder, tell me what's that you see
Marching to the fields of Dunkirk
It looks like Handsome Johnny with a carbine in his hand
Marching to the Dunkirk war, Hey marching to the Dunkirk war

Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Korea
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M1 in his hand
Marching to the Korean war, Hey marching to the Korean war

Interlude

Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Viet Nam
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M15
Marching to the Viet Nam war, Hey marching to the Viet Nam war
Hey, look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Birmingham
It looks like Handsome Johnny with his hand rolled in a fist
Marching to the Birmingham war. Hey, marching to the Birmingham war

Interlude

Hey what's the use of singing this song
Some of you are not even listening
Tell me what it is we've got to do
Wait for are fields to start glistening
Hey wait for the bullets to start whistling

Hey here come the hydrogen bombs
And here come the guided missile
Here come the hydrogen bombs
I can almost hear its whistle, I can almost hear its whistle