Howlin Wind

pre>capo at fret 2 intro
D / d / g / d d / d / a / a
D / d / f# / g d / a / d / d

G a d
Now don't you try to put it down,
G a d
Don't pour cold water over me,
G a d g
'cause i been up and i been down, yeah
E a
She's the warmest thing i've ever seen,

A d g d g d
'cause she got red hot gypsy blood
A d
Keeping me warm tonight,
A d g d g d
Yes she got red hot gypsy blood
A d
Keeping me feeling all right.

G a d
Now don't you try to sell your wares,
G a d
'cause i'll buy everything you've got, yeah,
G a d g (g / f# / f / e)
Pots and pans and caravans
E a
And jet black curls all tied right up in a knot

A d g d g d
'cause she got red hot, hey hey, gypsy blood, oh yeah,
A d
Keeping me warm tonight.
A d g d g d
Yes she got red hot gypsy blood, oh,
A d a / g / g a / g / g
Keeping me feeling all right, ooh ooh.

(instrumental verse)

G a d
Now don't you try to sell your wares, little babe,
G a d
'cause i'll buy everything, just about everything you've got,
G a d g (g / f# / f / e)
Pots and pans and charabancs,
E a
Jet black curls all tied right up in a knot

A d g d g d
'cause she got red hot, hey hey, gypsy blood, hmm hmm,
A d
Keeping me warm tonight, yeah.
A d g d
Yes she got red hot, huh, gypsy blood, oh oh,
A d
Keeping me feeling all right,

(a) d g
Yeah i feel all right, baby,
D g
Yeah i feel all right now
D g
Yeah i feel all right,
D g (d)
Oh, i feel all right, hmm. /pre>

pre>e a / e a / e a / e b7 a

A e
You want me be someone better
A e
I just wanna monkey 'round yeah
A e
You want me to write you a letter
A e a e
But the words just won't come the right way
A e b
My pen won't listen to a thing that i say

E a e a e a e a
Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey
A b7 e a
Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
A b7 e a e a e a e b7 a
Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey.

Maybe you're getting sloppy
Under the midday sun oh yeah.
You come on like a carbon copy
But i just wanna hang to the way you live.
Don't you want the love i got to give

Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey
Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey.

Sax solo

A e a e
Well i just wanna hang to the way you live.
A e b
Don't you want the love i got to give

Silly thing hey hey silly thing hey hey
Well it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
Silly thing hey hey yeah hey hey.
I said you don't-a mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
Silly thing hey hey repeat and fade /pre>

pre>e b e
Don't seem to be no break in the line don't seem to be no break boys
E
They ruined my vision screwed up my eyes
B e
I'll tell you what i'm gonna do boys
A e
I'm going back to schooldays i'm going back to schooldays
B e
I'm going back to schooldays to put them right

They tell me that it was like a film out here
But it's a real horror show boys
They told me that it was all black and white
There's so many shades i can see boys
I'm going back to schooldays i'm going back to schooldays
I'm going back to schooldays to put them right

A e b
Ain't nobody wants to know you when you're down
A b
And everybody wants to lose you when you're found.

Now if i think i might break even i might go home quietly
I'll marry a rich girl but otherwise
I'm going to raise hell and rightly.
I'm going back to schooldays i'm going back to schooldays
I'm going back to schooldays to put them right

(instrumental verse with comments)
Shake it! whew! yeah! that's all right!

Now if i seem just a might confused, don't give me all of the blame boys
24 years just obeying the rules, no wonder i'm half-insane boys.

I'm going back to schooldays i'm going back to schooldays
I'm going back to schooldays to put them right
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'm going back to schooldays i'm a-going back to schooldays
I'm going back to schooldays to put them right
I'm going back to schooldays i'm a-going back to schooldays
I'm going back to schooldays to put them right
(fade on) to put them right yeah! to put them right huh! /pre>

pre>intro c f c f c f c f c f c f

C g f g

C f c f c f c f
White honey get it from the candy man
C f c f c f c f
White honey yeah any time i think i can.
G c
You wake up early in the morning
G c
A-playing on the clarinet
G c
Whole town down when the man comes around
F g
And no one pays their rent it's all spent on
C f c f c f c f
White honey get it from the candy man
C f c f c f c f
White honey yeah any time i think i can.
G c
She's come and laid on a sample
G c
A little sweet white honey bee
G c
Tastes so good that the whole town stood
F g
And stared and looked at me they all see the
C f c f c f c f
White honey get it from the candy man
C f c f c f c f
White honey eee any time i think i can.

C'mon and (scat to chorus and the chords as in intro)
Sax break and repeat c g f g as in intro
G c
But now i ain't wanna criticise
G c
But let me tell you what i found
G c
Since they took away the record machine
F g
White honey don't come around. get down!
C f c f c f c f
White honey get it from the candy man oh oh oh oh oh
C f c f c f c f
White honey-ee any time i think i can
C f c f
Said honey what you doing what you doing what you doing
C f c f
What you're doing downtown tell me baby.
C f c f
Honey what you do what you do what you doing
C f c f
You're trying to make me look like a clown.
C f c f
I said hit white honey when the chips are down
C f c f
I'm gonna taste white honey when ain't no one around
C f c f c f
I said honey honey honey honey honey honey honey honey yeah
C f c f
Wah wah wah i said bop do do do do do bop do do do do do
C f c f c f
Bop do do do do do bop do do do do do bop do do do do do
C f c f c f c g f g
Bop do do do do do bop do do do do do bop yeah yeah
C f c f c f c g f g
White honey white white honey honey white now yeah yeah.

Fade on variations of the above /pre>

pre>c g d em
C bm am
The waterfalls trinkling
C bm am
Like bells to my ear
C bm am em bm
The earth rolls out before me through smiles and tears.

A country lost, a soul discovered
The ruin that i once was will soon recover.

Chorus

C g d em
And i know a howlin' wind runs through here blowin' every day.
C g d em
Yeah a howlin' wind runs through here takes my breath away.

Swing time is here children, for large and small
Let's dance before the fever is upon us all.
Yeah it's a strange religion, without any god.
The preacher walks with innocence spares the rod.

Chorus g g
Hey ey hey ey

Swing time is here children for large and small
Let's rock before the fever is upon us all.

Chorus
C g d em
Howl, i'm gonna howl, i'm gonna howl, i'm gonna howl
C g d em
I'm gonna howl, i'm gonna howl howl howl howl /pre>

pre>bb f (3 times)
G c g c
I've got a lady doctor she cure da pain for free
G c bb f g
I've got a lady doctor oh there ain't nothing wrong with me.
G c g c
I went in with a heart burn into the surgery
To my surprise two pretty eyes was running up and down me.
Said now be a patient patient stretch right out on that couch
Help yourself to the pills cure your ills
Bb f g
I'm never gonna square it on out.

Repeat chorus

Well all the cats said go see her it's only just down the road
You go in with pneumonia come out with just a heavy cold
She won't give you no jargon no medical how-do-you-do
Well just get right down under that stethoscope
Baby let that lady mess on with you.

Repeatr chorus (then instrumental chorus)

Repeat chorus (twice, sung up an octave)

Ain't nothing wrong with
Ain't nothing wrong with me
Bb f bb f c bb f g
Ooh ooh ooh ooh lady doctor yeah. /pre>