The Whistler Knows Best by Wrinkle Neck Mules, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

The Whistler Knows Best

Biography:

What the hell is a Wrinkle Neck Mule? A sophomoric phallic reference? Too easy. A pack animal used in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico to transport opium to America in the early 1900s? History channel worthy, but wrong. A band of five (or four, depending on the wind) from Richmond, Virginia carrying indie-rockish country music about the land? Eureka. Daily double.

Born somewhere on I-64 between Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia in late 1999

Read more on Last.fm

Other songs:

Share this tab

Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

The Whistler Knows Best - Wrinkle Neck Mules
Track 9 - The Wicks Have Met (2007)
---------------------------------------------------------
Standard tuning; fast (~120 bpm)

The following transition from C to G sounds good played during
the second and third lines of the chorus as well as during the solo:

C G
e|--0---------3-----|
B|--1---------0-----|
G|--0---------0-----|
D|--2---------0-----|
A|--3--3-2-0--2-----|
E|------------3-----|

[Intro]
e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------| x3
A|-3-2--3-2--3-2-----------|
E|----------------3-0------|

G Am C G

[Verse]
G
Another day of digging
Am C G
There must be a rat in the hole
G Am C G
I make no progress, this hard ground has got the digging slow
G C Am C
Got the digging slow
C Am C G
There’s just no promise when you go

[Verse]
G
Bright green grass
Am C G
Burned yellow like I’m pissing gasoline
G Am C G
In two weeks time replace my leg with staples and string
C Am C
Staples and string
C Am C G
The sound and lights smell so obscene

[Chorus]
G D
But, I’ll wait around,
C G D
Like all the rest, hoping I
C G
don’t starve to death
Am C G
The whistler... the whistler knows best
Am C G
The whistler... the whistler knows best

[Verse]
G Am C G
Black in the muzzle, like my double barrel shotgun
G Am C G
Just three years old, but damn if I don’t feel that young
C Am C
Don’t feel that young
C Am C G
Like I did when you up and run

[Chorus]
G D
But, I’ll wait around,
C G D
Like all the rest, hoping I
C G
don’t draw my last breath
Am C G
The whistler... the whistler knows best
Am C G
The whistler... the whistler knows best

[Solo]
D C G
D C G
Am
C
G

[Bridge]
Am C G Em
Better be careful what you ask for
Am C G Em
Outside the shadow of the house
D Am C
It might not be flowers like it seems
Am C
But dandelions and ditch weed
Am C
Dandelions and ditch weed

[Chorus]
D
But, I’ll wait around,
C G D
Like all the rest, hoping I
C G D
don’t starve to death, hopin' I
C G
don’t draw my last breath
Am C G
The whistler... the whistler knows best
Am C G
The whistler... the whistler knows best

[Outro]
e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------| x3
A|-3-2--3-2--3-2-----------|
E|----------------3-0------|

G