Happiness Is A Warm Gun
 (Lennon/McCartney)
 The White Album (1968)
 
 
 
  
     
  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.
  
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 |-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---------------------|
 
 
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 |-5/7-b(10)7---3----3----5-b(7)---3---|
 |----------------5------------------5-|