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Happy Jack (demo) – guitar tab

Happy Jack (demo) | guitar tab
By Pete Townshend, 1966
From: Another Scoop, 1987
Written by Pete Townshend ©1966 TRO-Essex Music, Inc.

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Transcribed by Drjasonsmith@aol.com
Previous transcription by Litgo@aol.com

2000-04-06                Whotabs                  www.thewho.net/whotabs/

Capo II

A7     x022xx

 (intro pattern)
|------------------------|----
|------------------------|----
|---------0---4----0-----|----
|-0---2-4-------2----4-0-|-0--
|------------------------|----
|------------------------|----

   D (main pattern; use palm mute)
||---------|---------||
||---------|---------||
||-2-------|-2-------||
||-0-4-4-4-|-0-4-4-4-||
||---5-5-5-|---5-5-5-||
||---------|---------||

D
      D           D           A7    D
Happy Jack wasn't old, but he was a man
   D            D           A7      D
He lived in the sand at the Isle of Man

[intro riff]

    D              D              A7       D
The kids all would sing, he would take the wrong key
        D           D             A7    D
So they rode on his head with their furry donkey

[intro riff]

But they never stopped Jack in the water lapping
And they couldn't distract him from the seagulls clapping

D

    G        
The kids couldn't hurt Jack
     A
They tried and tried and tried
     G
They dropped things on his back
    Asus4             A                 Asus4    A
And lied and lied and lied and lied and lied

But they never stopped Jack in the water lapping
And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy

| A    | D    | A    | D    | A    | D    | A    | D   Dsus4 |

But they never stopped jack in the water lapping
And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy

| A    | D    | A    | D    | G    | A  D | G    |

| A A  | A A  | A A  | A A  | A.......

The kids couldn't hurt Jack
They tried and tried and tried
They dropped things on his back
And lied and lied and lied and lied and lied

[opening lick ]
 


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