Happiness Is A Warm Gun by The Beatles

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Happiness Is A Warm Gun by Beatles

    
 Note on fingerpicking part in beginning of the song: the bottom three
strings (low E, A, and D) are only struck by the thumb.  Your thumb
should have a steady motion and strike on each downbeat: strike the
A string then the D string then the E string then the D string--thats
four count--then start over again.  So the key to knocking this is 
getting comfortable with the thumb motion.  Once you get that, add in
the remaining strings using your other fingers.  By the way, this is
the same pattern John uses on Dear Prudence!  Oh, when the Dm comes, the
thumb just moves up a string so that it plucks the A, D, and G strings;
other than that the pattern is the same.  Have fun!


Fingerpicking pattern:
               
        Am7              Am6                Em9               Em
|-3---------------|-2---------------|-2---------------|-0---------------|
|-----------1-----|-----------1-----|-----------0-----|-----------0-----|
|-------2---------|-------2---------|-------0---------|-------0---------|
|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|-0---------------|-0---------------|-2---------------|-2---------------|
|---------0-------|---------0-------|---------0-------|---------0-------|
 
She's not        a girl          who misses      much... 



        Dm                Dm               Asus2             Asus2
|-1----------1----|-1----------1----|-0---------------|-0---------------|
|-------3---------|-------3---------|-----------0-----|-----------0-----|
|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-------2---------|-------2---------|
|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
|---------0-------|---------0-------|-0---------------|-0---------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|---------0-------|---------0-------|

She's well aquainted...  [note that this section is irregular: sometimes
                          John hold out the Dm for 3 measures and other
                          times for 2 measures.  Gotta know the lyrics!]





      Am7   Am6         Em9       Em
She's not a girl   who misses much
Am7                   Am6    Em9       Em      
  Doo doo doo doo doo doo       Oh yeah


Dm  (guitar 2 plays Dm 7: see below)                                         Asus2
  She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane.
    Dm                                                    Asus2
The man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrors on his hobnail boots.
Dm                                                    Asus2
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy working overtime
Dm                                                              Asus2
 A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the national trust


[switch into 3/4 time]

A7   C   Am  (with riff 1: see below)

A7
I need a fix 'cause I'm goin' down,

Down to the bits that I left up town
C                        Am
I need a fix 'cause I'm goin' down.


  Am             C
Mother Superior jump the gun,
  Am             G
Mother Superior jump the gun.
  Am             C
Mother Superior jump the gun,
  Am             G
Mother Superior jump the gun.
  Am             C
Mother Superior jump the gun,
  Am             G
Mother Superior jump the gun.


    [Back to 4/4 time]

C            Am         F        G7 
        Happiness is a warm gun.
       (Happiness          bang bang shoot)  
C            Am         F         G7
        Happiness is a warm gun, mama.
(shoot, Happiness          bang bang shoot)

     [begin cut time: all chords get half the value as above]

C      Am         F       G
  When I hold you  in my arms,
(shooo ooo       ooo      oh)

C        Am       F           G
  And I feel my finger on your trigger,
(yea,    ooo      ooo         oh)

C     Am     F             G
   I know nobody can do me no harm,
(yea, ooo   ooo            oh)    

     [back to normal 4/4 time]

  C            Am         F         G
Because, Happiness  is a warm gun mama.
(yea,    Happiness            bang bang shoot)  

C             Am         F         G
        Happiness  is a warm gun, yes it is.
(shoot, Happiness            bang bang shoot)

 Fm7
Happiness  is a warm, yes it is,
(shoot)

         C       Am         F         G
 Gun!                               Don't you know that
   (Happiness                   bang bang shoot)
 C       Am       F       G
Happiness   is a warm gun mama.

C             Am         F         G        C
        Happiness  is a warm gun, mama
(shoot, Happiness            is a warm gun yea)

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here's what guitar 2 plays when the Dm-Am section begins:

  Dm7     Incidently, this guitar plays a  bar chord
  -7-     on the 3rd count of each measure in this section.
  -6-     They're straight bar chords, only the first Dm
  -7-     has the 7th added.
  ---
  ---
  ---

riff 1: note that this uses a tremelo bar, so all bends will
        refer to usin' that whammy.
 
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-5/7-b(10)7---3----3---5-b(7)---3-----7-b(10)7--3----3--5/7b(10)-7b(10)-|
|----------------5-----------------5---------------5---------------------|

|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-5/7-b(10)7---3----3----5-b(7)---3---|
|----------------5------------------5-|

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Am7  Am6   Em9  Asus2
-3-  -2-   -2-   -0-
-1-  -1-   -0-   -0-
-2-  -2-   -0-   -2-
-2-  -2-   -2-   -2-
-0-  -0-   -2-   -2-
---  ---   -0-   ---