Smokestack

Author: Mike Kruft
Artist: Doyle Bramhall II & Smokestack
Album:  Welcome
Song:   Smokestack

feel free to email me at evenwallsfalldwn@hotmail.com

If you’re looking at this then bless you for liking good rock and roll.

(due to requests I’m adding more doyle tabs!)

^ - slight bend
* - major bend
p - pull off
h - hammer on
/ - slide up
~ - vibrato

Intro:
e-------------------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------------------|
G---2^-0h1----------------------------------------|
D----------2----0-----2---------------------------|
A-------------2----2------------------------------|
E------------------------0------------------------|

(play 4 times)

fill:
e-------------------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------------------|
G----0--0--2--4--2--------------------------------|
D-------------------2~-------0------2-------------|
A-------------------------2------2----------------|
E--------------------------------------0----------|

e-------------------3^---------------------------------------------|
B-------------------3^---------------------------------------------|
G--2--2--2--2h4p2--------4--2--0--2--4--2--------------------------|
D------------------------------------------2~----0h2p0--------0--2-|
A-------------------------------------------------------2----------|
E----------------------------------------------------------0-------|


Verse:

    I    was   born...
e-------------------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------------------|
G---4---2---0-------------------------------------|
D---------------0---2----------0-------2----------|
A--------------------------2-------2--------------|
E------------------------------------------0------|

    way   down   south...
e-------------------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------------------|
G---4-------2-------------------------------------|
D-------------------2----------0-------2----------|
A--------------------------2-------2--------------|
E------------------------------------------0------|

    I      left    home...
e-------------------------------------------------|
B---0-------2-------5-----------------------------|
G-------------------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------0-------2-------|
A----------------------------2--------2-----------|
E---------------------------------------------0---|
    ear - ly       on...
e-------------------------------------------------|
B---5------2--------------------------------------|
G----------------2----0---------------------------|
D--------------------------2---------0------2-----|
A--------------------------------2-------2--------|
E----------------------------------------------0--|

(from here you should be able to ad in your own notes to doyle’s words)

  All I had..

  To show me the way..

  Was the sound of music..

  From the street every day..

Chorus:
		    C#   B  B   A
  Too many people..
		    C#   B  B   A
  Not enough shelter..
		    C#   B  B   A
  The poor getting weaker..
		    C#   B  B   A
  The rich getting stronger..
		    C#   B  B   A
  I’ve seen everything..
		    C#   B  B   A
  I needed to see...
		    C#   B  B   A
  I got my mind made up..
		    C#   B  B   A
  To give it all away..


Verse:


  Workin’ man..

  Way down south..

  Bet any moment back at the house..

  All that love..

  Couldn’t hold back..

  Cause bells were ringing..

  The sky turned black..





Solo:
the prelude is a bunch of licks that are just varied versions
of the intro riff.

then play the hell out of these notes.
e---------   --------  --------  --------|
B---------   --------  --------  --------|
G-----9---   ---12---  ---16---  ---14---|
D---------   --------  --------  --------|
A---------   --------  --------  --------|
E---------   --------  --------  --------|

another snippet
e------------------------|
B------------------------|
G------12h14-------12h14-|  (repeated fast)
D--14----------14--------|
A------------------------|
E------------------------|




Lead in to big solo:

..Smokestack..               ..Smokestack..
e-------------------------------------|
B-------------------------------------|
G-----------------------12^-----------|
D-----------------12------------------|
A-----------/14-----------------------|
E-------------------------------------|
(repeat 8 times, getting softer each time)

if anyone can figure out the rest of this,
I’d be not only grateful, but amazed.