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Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf
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Written by Howlin' Wolf (aka Chester Burnett)
Transcribed by Greg O'Beirne (gobeirne@tartarus.uwa.edu.au)
[Riff 1]
2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 +
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B|--5-------8E|E|---------------------------------------||--------------|
G|--------------------------------7-------------------------------|
D|--------------------------7/9-----9-------7-----5---------------|
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[Riff 2]
2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 +
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B|--5-------3E|E|---------------------------------------||--------------|
G|--------------------------------7-------------------------------|
D|--------------------------7/9-----9-------7-----5---------------|
A|E|E|---------------------------------------||-----------7-----5-------|
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[Harmonica Riff]
(arranged for guitar)
2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 +
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B|-5-------5~~~~~~~--------3-----3-5-----5-8-----8-5-----0-5-----0-|
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2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 +
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B|-5-------5~~~~~~~--------3-----3-5-----5-8-----8-5-----0-5-----0-|
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2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 +
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B|-5-------5~~~~~~~--------3-----3-5-----5-8-----8-5---12~~~~~~~---|
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I've done the time thingies on top of each bit as 234 1234 1 instead
of the usual 1234 1234 as that's the way the riffs are phrased.
I hope it make sense when you're playing it :) Throughout the song,
play a mixture of the first and second riffs. The harmonica comes
in after every second verse. I was going to write the lyrics but I
can't decipher many of them :)
