Biography:
Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941; died April 22, 2013) was an American folk singer and guitarist. He is best remembered for his intense, rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Havens moved to Greenwich Village in 1961 in time to get in on the folk boom then taking place. Havens had a distinctive style as a folksinger
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Other songs:
- I Can't Make It Anymore
- Ooh Child
- Paradise
- Alone Together
- Fire And Rain
- Follow
- Freedom
- Gay Cavalier
- God Bless The Child
- Going Back To My Roots
- Handsome Johnny
- Helplessly Hoping
- Here Comes The Sun
- High Flyin Bird
- I Cant Make It Anymore
- Just Like A Woman
- Nobody Left To Crown
- On The Road To Calvary
- One More Day
- Stardust And Passion
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- You'll Never Know
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Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny
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Tabbed By: Adam O'Neil (jerseyfoxcom@gmail.com)
Email: jerseyfoxcom@gmail.com
Notes: This is the woodstock version of Richie Havens classic, Handsome
Johnny. There is a woodstock DVD going round with some great
footage of this track and I worked it out from that.
Tuning: Open D (D,A,D,F#,A,D)
Chords -
D - (OOOOOO)
E9- (222222)
A - (777755)
B9- (999999)
Strumming Style - Fast (8/sec roughly)
Playing Style - Played with thumb to bar whole fret. Pull thumb off E9 to play
open for a couple of strums ad lib.
Intro - E9,D,E9,D
A B9 E9 D E9 D
Hey look yonder, tell me what's that you see,
A B9 E9 D E9 D
marching to the fields o f Concord
A B9 E9 D E9 D
It look s like H andsome Johnny with a musket in his hand
B9 D E9 D B9 D E9 D
Marching to the Concord war. Hey, Marchi ng to the concor d war.
Break - E9,D,E9,D
Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Gettysburg
It looks like Handsome Johnny with flintlock in his hand
Marching to the Gettysburg war, Hey marching to the Gettysburg war
INTERLUDE:
A B9 E9 A B9 E9
Hey, it's a long hard road, It's a long hard road
A B9 E9
It's a long hard road before we'll be free.
Hey look yonder, tell me what's that you see
Marching to the fields of Dunkirk
It looks like Handsome Johnny with a carbine in his hand
Marching to the Dunkirk war, Hey marching to the Dunkirk war
Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Korea
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M1 in his hand
Marching to the Korean war, Hey marching to the Korean war
Interlude
Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Viet Nam
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M15
Marching to the Viet Nam war, Hey marching to the Viet Nam war
Hey, look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Birmingham
It looks like Handsome Johnny with his hand rolled in a fist
Marching to the Birmingham war. Hey, marching to the Birmingham war
Interlude
Hey what's the use of singing this song
Some of you are not even listening
Tell me what it is we've got to do
Wait for are fields to start glistening
Hey wait for the bullets to start whistling
Hey here come the hydrogen bombs
And here come the guided missile
Here come the hydrogen bombs
I can almost hear its whistle, I can almost hear its whistle
Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny
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Tabbed By: Adam O'Neil (jerseyfoxcom@gmail.com)
Email: jerseyfoxcom@gmail.com
Notes: This is the woodstock version of Richie Havens classic, Handsome
Johnny. There is a woodstock DVD going round with some great
footage of this track and I worked it out from that.
Tuning: Open D (D,A,D,F#,A,D)
Chords -
D - (OOOOOO)
E9- (222222)
A - (777755)
B9- (999999)
Strumming Style - Fast (8/sec roughly)
Playing Style - Played with thumb to bar whole fret. Pull thumb off E9 to play
open for a couple of strums ad lib.
Intro - E9,D,E9,D
A B9 E9 D E9 D
Hey look yonder, tell me what's that you see,
A B9 E9 D E9 D
marching to the fields o f Concord
A B9 E9 D E9 D
It look s like H andsome Johnny with a musket in his hand
B9 D E9 D B9 D E9 D
Marching to the Concord war. Hey, Marchi ng to the concor d war.
Break - E9,D,E9,D
Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Gettysburg
It looks like Handsome Johnny with flintlock in his hand
Marching to the Gettysburg war, Hey marching to the Gettysburg war
INTERLUDE:
A B9 E9 A B9 E9
Hey, it's a long hard road, It's a long hard road
A B9 E9
It's a long hard road before we'll be free.
Hey look yonder, tell me what's that you see
Marching to the fields of Dunkirk
It looks like Handsome Johnny with a carbine in his hand
Marching to the Dunkirk war, Hey marching to the Dunkirk war
Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Korea
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M1 in his hand
Marching to the Korean war, Hey marching to the Korean war
Interlude
Hey look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Viet Nam
It looks like Handsome Johnny with an M15
Marching to the Viet Nam war, Hey marching to the Viet Nam war
Hey, look yonder, tell me what you see
Marching to the fields of Birmingham
It looks like Handsome Johnny with his hand rolled in a fist
Marching to the Birmingham war. Hey, marching to the Birmingham war
Interlude
Hey what's the use of singing this song
Some of you are not even listening
Tell me what it is we've got to do
Wait for are fields to start glistening
Hey wait for the bullets to start whistling
Hey here come the hydrogen bombs
And here come the guided missile
Here come the hydrogen bombs
I can almost hear its whistle, I can almost hear its whistle
