Joshua Elgar-Chetwyn
joshua.chetwyn@googlemail.com
HOWL
JOHNNY FLYNN
CAPO 2nd FRET
If the intro doesn't make sense send me and email and ill send you a recording of what
it should sound like
Chords used:
Em: 022000
B7: 021200
C: 332010
G: 320000
D': 000213
E': xxx987
E'* xxx9810 (9, 8, 10)
Intro/Verse:
Intro/Verse:
Em D G C B7
|---0---0--- 3---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---0-3b----h1---0h1p1-----------0-----0------1-----1-----------------0------------|
|-----------h2-----------------------------------------0h2p2p0----0h2--------------|
|-2----------------------------------------------0h2--------------0h1--0h1p10------| x2
|-2------------------------2--------0h2---------------------------0h---------------|
|-0-----------------------0-3---3------------0-------------------------------------|
This part is pretty loose and bluesy and no means right, but its what I can get and play
that sounds okay.
INTRO Solo
Strum B7 chord
|-----9b-9b---------------------------------0----0---0--------|
|--9/10b-10b--8b-8b-6b-6b-6/8---------------------------------|
|-------------------------------7b------0h2--2/4---4/2-----2--|
|-----------------------------------------------------------1-|
|-----------------------------------------------------------2-|
|---0----------0-----0----------0------0----------------------|
VERSE:
Em D
Howl for my homeland
C B7
Wherever that was
Em D
And howl for the homage
C B7
That's been gone and lost
BREAK:
C G
To the passing and temporal
C G
The eons gone by
C G
There's nothing to praise
C G
Not in earth, sea or sky
B7
Or was what is holy's been shot
Em
And in time to know
C
The rest will soon follow
G B7
All the rest will soon go
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/johnny_flynn/howl_tab.html ]
CHORUS:
C G
Stay in the light, Joe
C Em
Stay with yourself
C G
Put up a fight
C B7
Don't rest on the shelf
INSTRUMENTAL: C G C Em C G B7
B7 Walk down to Em into the verse
Hold B7 Chord shape
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|---2---2---2-----------|
|-----------------2-----|
|-2---0-----------2-----|
|---------3---2---------|
VERSE:
Em D
Growl at the pedestal
C B7
Growl at the pinch
Em D
The last of the ports
C B7
Has broken the winch
BREAK:
C G
Oh, the legacy is gone
C G
And the people who knew
C G
Have lost their minds
C G
Or left, there's a few
B7
Who are choking on what
Em
And the will to hold on
C
With their principles pinned
G B7
To the courts of above
CHORUS:
C G
Stay in the light, Joe
C Em
Stay with yourself
C G
Put up a fight
C B7
Don't rest on the shelf
INSTRUMENTAL: C G C Em C G B7 - 2x's
B7 Walk down to Em
Hold B7 Chord shape
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|---2---2---2-----------|
|-----------------2-----|
|-2---0-----------2-----|
|---------3---2---------|
VERSE:
Em D
Me and the teardrop
C B7
Me and the mountain
Em D
Oh, me and the check
C B7
And to meet my accountant
BREAK:
C G
Oh, me and the wolf
C G
Who was eating my heart
C G
And me and my friends
C G
Who laugh in the dark
B7
Oh, and you and yours two
Em
And you and yours three
C
And you and yours ever
B7 with walk down
And ever be free
CHORUS:
C G
Stay in the light, Joe
C Em
Stay with yourself
C G
Put up a fight
C B7
Don't rest on the shelf
