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I don't play guitar myself but some wonderful,
generous people let my use their transcriptions of Rev Hammer tabs. So
far they all fit on one page. Hopefully, there's more to come in the
future (nudge nudge)
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And the
Healing Has Begun
(Van Morrison)
(Drunk in Public)
(Complete lyrics)
Very easy to play, I use a 032033, which I'll call Cadd9 although I can't
determine if this is the correct name. The whole song is ...
G Cadd9
D
... as far as I can tell. You could play C instead of Cadd9, and I think it would
probably sound better if you had two guitars one playing each. It'd be
a good idea to have two guitarists as well. :)
Intro:
G Cadd9 D
Verse:
G
Cadd9 D
And we'll walk down the avenue again
G
Cadd9 D
And we'll sing all the songs from way back when
G
Cadd9
And we'll walk down the avenue again
D
G Cadd9 D
And the healing has begun
Transcribed by Alan Bigham.
Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle
with kind permission.
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Burford
Stomp
(Freeborn John; Too Drunk in Public; This is Modern Folk)
(Complete lyrics)
Intro: (without fiddle)
Am ...
C F G Am
Chorus:
Am
They'll bury us down further in the ground,
Am
Than we ever dug down for a living.
C
Seven years of fighting for the
F G Am
Dead Man's Shilling.
Verse:
Am
Four hundred honest men
Ran to Cromwell's Call
C
Four hundred honest men
F G Am
Now waiting by the wall
Transcribed by Alan
Bigham. Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle with kind permission.
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Caledonian Rain
(Industrial Sound and Magic;
Drunk
in Public; An Evening
With Cooking Vinyl; Cooking
Vinyl Sampler 2; Cooking
Vinyl Sampler: For Mid and Budget Titles; Cooking Vinyl America Sampler)
(Complete lyrics)
I can't figure this out properly so I've just put
the basic chords. Any help greatly appreciated.
Intro:
G (and
the funny riff/chord thing I can't get)
Verse:
G
We are gonna sail that sea,
G
To the western isles,
G
With the dirt of tears,
G
And the smoke of fires,
Em
Without a soul to see
G
I will know you again.
D
We both need to get back on the track,
D
Where the white is white and the black is black.
C
C
Oh! I hope the Caledonian Rain
D C G
Washes us, washes us down.
Transcribed by Alan Bigham.
Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle
with kind permission.
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California
Bound
(Industrial Sound and Magic;
Drunk
in Public)
(Complete lyrics)
Intro:
Em (for
2 bars)
Verse:
Em
I knew this moment would face me,
G
When I must take a horse and ride,
Em
Deep into the Pennine hills,
G
And out of view of the other side.
Asus2
If you be with me come along,
C
For every moment is crushing time.
Asus2
They pollute with any finger-tip,
C
You can barely see the old moon shine.
G
D Em
And, I fear that there's many miles to go,
D
‘Til we reach higher ground,
Em
For this place seems
D Em D Em
D Em
California bound.
Transcribed by Alan
Bigham. Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle with kind permission.
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Down by the River
'O' 1
(Road to Dendron; The Dog Kennel Sessions # 1
and # 2; Demo Tape; Industrial Sound and Magic;
Too
Drunk in Public; Red
Sky Coven Volumes 1 & 2; Levelles Chaos Theory;
The Idea
Part 8 Fanzine; Cooking
Vinyl
Sampler 1; An Evening
With Cooking Vinyl; A
Festival of Folk; Taste
the Craic; Indie
World)
(Complete lyrics)
Intro:
Dm
F C Dm
Dm
F C Dm
Dm
F
Dm
F C Dm
Verse:
Am
We left the city and the fourteenth
floor,
C G Am
And went down by the River 'o Joe.
Am
Tho' then we never knew what we were
travelling for,
C G Am
We went down by the River 'o Joe.
Am
Thirty miles to a place that we had
not seen,
C
Where the land lies flat and the
wind blows keen.
Am
It was the prettiest place I've ever
been,
C G Am
Down by the River 'o Joe.
Chorus:
The
River 'o, the River 'o, the
River 'o Joe,
The River ain't never for sale.
I was born by the River 'o Joe and the River ain't never for sale.
(quieter strum)
You can make your
deals in the dead of night and
Bribe who the bloody hell you like,
But, I was born by the River ' o Joe
And the river ain't never for sale.
Dm
F C Dm
Dm
F C Dm
Dm
F
Dm F C Dm
Transcribed by Mat Ward in 2004.
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Drunkard's Waltz
(The Bishop of Buffalo;
Oysterband: Deep Dark
Ocean; Red Sky
Coven Volumes 1&2)
(Complete lyrics)
Capo 2nd fret
(chords are written down relatively to capo, the
song is actually written in A major)
this is a pretty simple piece of music but anyway,
it sounds good and you should be able to performe it after having some
pints ;-)
Figure 1:
G
q e e e e e q e e e
q e e e e q e e e e
--|---5--5-5-5-5-----------5-5-5-|---5--5-5-5-5----5--5-5-5-5--|
--|---5--5-5-5-5-----------5-5-5-|---5--5-5-5-5----5--5-5-5-5--|
6-|.--2--2-2-2-2----2------2-2-2-|---2--2-2-2-2----2--2-2-2-2--|
4-|.--2--2-2-2-2----2-h-4--4-4-4-|---4--4-4-4-4----4--4-4-4-4--|
--|---4--4-4-4-4----x------x-x---|---x-------------x-----------|
--|---5-------------5------x-x---|---5-------------5-----------|
Cadd9
q e e e e q e e e e
q e e e e e e e e e e
------5---5-5-5-5---5---5-5-5-5--|---5--5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5-5-5---|
------5---5-5-5-5---5---5-5-5-5--|---5--5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5-5-5---|
6-----2---2-2-2-2---2---2-2-2-2--|---2--2-2-2-2----2-2-2-2-2-2--.|
4-----4---4-4-4-4---4---4-4-4-4--|---4--4-4-4-4----4-4-2-2-2-2--.|
------5-------------5------------|---5-------------5-5 4-4-2-2---|
---------------------------------|-------------------------- ----|
Figure 2:
Em
C
q e e e e q e e e e
q e e e e q e e e e
--|---2--2-2-2-2----2--2-2-2-2---|---2--2-2-2-2----2--2-2-2-2----|
--|---2--2-2-2-2----2--2-2-2-2---|---3--3-3-3-3----3--3-3-3-3----|
6-|.--2--2-2-2-2----2--2-2-2-2---|---2--2-2-2-2----2--2-2-2-2---.|
4-|.--4--4-4-4-4----4--4-4-4-4---|---4--4-4-4-4----4--4-4-4-4---.|
--|---4--4-4-4-4----4--4-4-4-4---|---5--5-5-5-5----5--5-5-5-5----|
--|---2-------------2------------|-------------------------------|
Figure 3:
G D
Cadd9
D
q e e e e q e e e e
q e e e e q e e e e
--|---5--5-5-5-5----4--4-4-4-4---|---5--5-5-5-5----4--4-4-4-4----|
--|---5--5-5-5-5----5--5-5-5-5---|---5--5-5-5-5----5--5-5-5-5----|
6-|.--2--2-2-2-2----4--4-4-4-4---|---2--2-2-2-2----4--4-4-4-4---.|
4-|.--2--2-2-2-2----2--2-2-2-2---|---4--4-4-4-4----2--2-2-2-2---.|
--|---4--4-4-4-4-----------------|---5--5-5-5-5------------------|
--|---5--------------------------|-------------------------------|
Intro:
(Figure 1)
Verse:
(Figure 1)
G
G
I come knock on the door and I rap on the heart
Cadd9
Cadd9
You've got stars in your eyes, it's a fine place to start
G
G
And I get a message that I take is divine
Cadd9
Cadd9
With the wind at our back till we're over the line
(Figure 2)
Em
C
And tomorrow's too late for this sort of thing
Em
C
For the sun may not rise if the soul doesn't sing
Chorus:
(Figure 3)
G
D Cadd9 D
There's a drunkard's waltz, can you take it?
G D
Cadd9 D
If I give you my bottle don't you break it
G
D Cadd9
We were born to love, come on let's make it
D G
Be mine tonight
(Figure 1)
| G |
Cadd9 | Em | C | Em | C | Em | D | D |
Final Chorus:
(Figure 3) (2x, last chord is Cadd9
instead of G)
Tabbed by Detlef Lampe and
written down by Michael Hartmann.
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Edge of
the World
(Levellers, Phil Johnstone and Rev Hammer)
(Levellers: Hello Pig;
Drunk in Public: The
Muddy Road to Invergarry)
(Complete lyrics)
Surprised that this is not tabbed elsewhere, as it's quite a simple
chord sequence. Stick a capo on fret 2, and away you go!
A
Em
At the edge of the world nothing is said
G
D
Call a witness, conversation is dead
(repeat same chords throughout...)
Transcribed by Jonathan.
Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle with kind permission.
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Ghost of
Walachin
(The Green Fool Recordings; Red Sky Coven Volumes 1
& 2)
(Complete lyrics)
[Capo
1]
Intro:
Hm G D G
Verse:
Hm
G
Now you're fed and watered is it time to move away
D
G
Come do to me, babe, as I do to others every day.
There's a line drawn across the world and you went back to your side
We're continents apart again (...)
Chorus:
Em
F#/G
But you never disappointed
D G
You always could amaze
Em
F#/G
And the ghost of Walachin
Hm
G
looks dry and dazed.
Transcribed by Kevin
(www.myspace.com/passionhopelove) in 2009.
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Happy
Birthday Revolution
(Levellers, Phil Johnstone and Rev Hammer)
(Spitting Feathers;
Levellers: Hello Pig;
Levellers: Happy
Birthday Revolution; The Fabbies: Let's Hear it For the
Little Fella)
(Complete lyrics)
This transcription is traken from the live
version. I think most of it is okay but there are some bits I'm really
unsure of, the end particularly (note the chords marked with a '). If
someone can help please do. I've not heard the album so I don't know if
it's slightly different.
Capo 1
Intro:
A
F#m A F#m B E
Verse:
A
D
Car horns and Rumba music through this city's broken heart
C#m F#m
Is this the Devil's own backyard?
B
It was forty years ago that old Batista fell
E
To a rag-bag of men the world remembers well
Chorus:
A F#m
Happy Birthday revolution
A
F#m
Happy Birthday revolution
D Dsus4
G A
I'm standing here watching the world fall apart
G E
A
Just watching the world fall apart
Bridge:
D
G
We paint him on buildings with sadness in his eyes
A
F#m
If we suffer hungry days we call it sacrifice
B
Some say his dream is full of holes but we have dignity and pride
E
We have independance or is it just some Yankee lie?
Fiddle Solo:
A
F#m A' A
D B' E B
E E
Outro:
A F#m
Happy Birthday revolution
A
F#m
Happy Birthday revolution
A E
Happy Birthday revolution
A
F#m
Happy Birthday revolution
A
F#m
Happy Birthday revolution
D Dsus4
G A
I'm standing here watching the world fall apart
F#m E
A
Just watching the world fall apart
A E A
Just watching the world fall apart
Transcribed by Alan Bigham.
Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle
with kind permission.
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Hobo
(Bob Dylan)
(Disagreement of
the People; Levellers: Zeitgeist Out-Takes)
(Complete lyrics)
Intro:
G
G
C G
G G D G
G G G G
Verse:
G
C G
As I was out walking on a corner one day,
G
D
I spied an old hobo, in a doorway he lay.
G
C
G
His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor
G
D
G
And I guess he'd been there for the whole night or more.
Chorus:
C
G
Only a hobo, but one more is gone
D
Leavin' nobody to sing his sad song
C G
Leavin' nobody to carry him home
G
Only a hobo, but one more, one more, one more, one more is gone
G
C G
G G D G
G
G C G
G G D G
G G G G
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Jimmy
Flannagan
(The Dog Kennel Sessions # 2;
Industrial
Sound and Magic; The Idea
Part 8 Fanzine)
(Complete lyrics)
Verse:
Am
C
A scream wells up inside of Irene
Flannagan.
Am C
She is related to me and lives an hour away.
Am C
Pretty soon we will say, "Hello", to little Jimmy Flannagan,
C G D
Who may be a priest or murderer someday.
Chorus:
Am
C G
Lucky little boy born with the snow white skin.
Am C G
Lucky little boy from the minute that his lungs begin.
Am C G
All over this world there are people waiting for him,
Am C G
Lucky little boy born with the snow white skin.
Bridge:
Em
Am Em Am
I still wonder how he'll fare,
everyone here looks so scared.
Em Am G D
Waiting for the doctor to turn their faces round.
Em Am Em Am
Outside the rain it stops, and you can hear the ticking of the clocks,
Em
Am G D
Little Jimmy screams and he looks well to me.
Transcribed by Mat Ward
in 2004.
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Johnny
Reggae
(Industrial
Sound and Magic)
(Complete lyrics)
Verse:
G C
G
You used to see him down Leicester Square,
D C G
With a mixed-up suit and filthy hair.
G C G
He played harmonica in limbo, for his tea and fareD C G
He drank too much, but, I couldn't care
Chorus:
G C
G
Johnny Reggae he could not see
D C G
Johnny Reggae he could not see
G C G
Johnny Reggae he could not see
D C G
But it never stopped him smiling at me
Bridge:
C G
They say it started with some rookie
police,
D G
When a lucky right hand knocked one
off his feet.
C G
They dragged him, legless, to the soundproof cell,
D
Where no-one but the dead could hear you yell,
D
And they gave what they give to the troublesome niggers.
Transcribed by Mat Ward
in 2004.
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Lowlands
of
Holland
(Traditional)
(Freeborn John Box Set)
(Complete lyrics)
(Steel
Guitar)
(Gm)
(C) (D5) (Gm) (C) (Gm)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------3-1-1-1h3-3-1--------------------------------------
------0-0-0h2p0-------------------2-2p0--------------------------------
--0-3-----------3-0--------------------3--3-3-0--0h3p0-----------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
(Gm)
(C) (D5) (Gm) (C) (Gm)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------3-1-1-1h3-3-1--------------------------------------
------0-0-0h2p0-------------------2-2p0-----0h2-0-----0----------------
--0-3-----------3-0--------------------3--3-------0h3------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
(Gm)
(C) (D5) (Gm) (C)(Gm)
(Steel Guitar and Banjo)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--1-3-1---1h2h3-1-1-1h3-3-1--------------------------------------------
--------3-------------------2-2p0--------------------------------------
---------------------------------3--3-3-0--0h3p0-----------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
(Gm)
(C) (D5) (Gm)
(C) (Gm)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------3-1--1-1h3--3-1------------------------------------
------0-0-0h2p0---------------------2-2p0-------0-2-00-2p0---0---------
--0-3-----------3-0-----------------------3--3-------------3-----------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Chords are the same all the way through.
Transcribed by Lewis
Fogerty.
Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle
with kind permission.
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Maid of the
River
(A Few Minutes in his Company;
The
Dog Kennel Sessions # 2; Levellers: Zeitgeist)
(Complete lyrics)
This song is really easy, it's only got 4
chords. Also, if you have a capo, put it on the 2nd fret, and play Am C G and E chords.
Intro:
Bm
D A Bm
Verse:
Bm
D
She's the maid of the river, so beautiful plain
A
Bm
As fresh as the country that gave her her name
Bm
D
As crisp as the snow and as swift as the rain
A
Bm
She shone like the sun before all of our games
Bm
D
She shone like a jewel but her price was not gold
A
Bm
She cried more than most when her story was told
Bm
D
But her people were evil left her barren and cold
A
Bm
And her heart went to market where her body was sold
Chorus:
Bm
D
I said hey hey won't you take me away
A
Bm
Coz I can't see the point in the dawn of the day
Bm D
So many people gonna take you away
A
Bm
Leave little left except hatred
Bm
D A Bm
Bm D A Bm
F#
Bm
She's the goddess of love, the goddess in green
F#
Bm
The goddess of all that I've ever seen
F# Bm
Goddess of hope, the goddess in brown
F#
F#
The goddess of all that you've burned to the ground
Transcribed by Alan
Bigham. Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle with kind permission.
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Musical
Folk
Group
(Johnny Cash (original title: The One on the Right is on the Left))
(Too Drunk in Public)
(Complete lyrics)
Verse:
C
F
C
There once was a musical folk group, a picking, singing folk group
F C
C
G
They sang mountain ballads and the folk songs of our land
C
F
C
They were long on musical ability, folks thought they would go far
F
C G
C
But political incompatability led to their downfall
Chorus:
F
C
Well, the one on the right was on the left
G
C
And the one in the middle was on the right
F
C
And the one on the left was in the middle
G
C
And the guy in the rear, he was the drummer
Transcribed by Alan
Bigham.
Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle
with kind permission.
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Paling of
the Moon
(The Green Fool Recordings; Too Drunk in Public)
(Complete lyrics)
The A
might be x022000, and
the B might be x244000, x244222, or x244xxx.
Intro:
E
E A B
E E A B
E E A B
E E E* E (E* = Esus4 = 022200)
Verse:
A
A
In the paling of the moon where the rushes swoon
E
E
On a river bank in early June in the summer of our love
A
A
I plant a kiss on your quivering lips
E
E
And I seldom miss in the summer of our love.
B
B
Hold on to this time, hold on to my coat
A
A
Hold on to these words as they spill out of my throat.
Chorus:
E
A B
I'm loving you now (3x)
E A E
Forever once more.
F#m
E F#m A
E A B
Transcribed by Alan
Bigham. Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle with kind permission.
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Punchdrunk
(Industrial Sound and Magic;
Too
Drunk in Public; Red
Sky Coven Volume 5)
(Complete lyrics)
I believe the A* is a normal A (x02220) followed by a
slide up to xx555x.
It's played between the verses and chorus too. You probably need to
hear the song before trying to decipher my attempt.
Intro:
A*
8x
Verse:
A*
(repeat)
Punchdrunk stood in the middle of the ring,
The referee stood 'tween Murphy and him:
They hadn't rung that bell when the head came in,
Punchdrunk staggered with blood on his chin.
Chorus:
F#m
A* (2x)
But I, I ain't here to raise the lid,
F#m
A
For on Whitechapel Road they say:
E
A*
That's just the way you earn a quid.
Transcribed by Alan
Bigham.
Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle
with kind permission.
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Rumour and
Rapture
(Justin Sullivan)
(Freeborn John Live;
Freeborn
John Box Set)
(Complete lyrics)
Standard
Tuning.
Verse:
e|-4-----0-----2-----0-----
B|-4-----0-----2-----0-----
G|-4-----4-----3-----6-----
D|-6-----4-----4-----6-----
A|-6-----2-----4-----4-----
E|-4-----0-----2-----------
Chorus:
e|-0-----0-----4-----4-----
B|-0-----0-----4-----4-----
G|-9-----9-----6-----6-----
D|-9-----9-----6-----6-----
A|-7-----6-----4-----4-----
E|-------------------------
e|-0-----5-----4-----4-----
B|-0-----5-----4-----4-----
G|-9-----6-----6-----6-----
D|-9-----7-----6-----6-----
A|-7-----7-----4-----4-----
E|-------5-----------------
Transcribed by Bjoern Ahrens.
Taken from New Model Army
Tabs with kind permission.
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Searchlights
(Night Time; Somewhere in the Distance)
(Road to Dendron; The Dog Kennel Sessions # 2;
Demo Tape;
Levellers: Fantasy;
Levellers: Help)
(Complete lyrics)
Verse:
Em
Am Em
I see fences where there was no fence before
Em Am
B7
Em
The flesh tearing wire hasn't even rusted round the door
Em
Am Em
Oh why the beauty that I could bring to you
Em Am
B7
Em
Outside in the distance there is something coming through
Oh I say
Em Am
B7
Em
Outside in the distance there is something coming through
Chorus:
Am
Em
Outside in the distance where those searchlights don't go
Am
Em
There's an immigrant who's crouching with a bundle of his clothes
Am
Em
The bushes start a rustling so he takes to his toes
C
Em B7
Just singing "this is the last of my shows"
Em
Am Em Am B7 Em
Transcribed by Keith
Dunnett. Taken from the Levellers
Tabernacle with kind permission.
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(Worse and
Worse)
Like the Son of a Goat
(The Bishop of Buffalo; Red Sky Coven Volume 3)
(Complete lyrics)
The C/G
chord may be a simple C,
but I prefer to play C/G
Em
D
C/G
Well, the name is Llewellyn and I'm carved out of stone
Em D
C/G
Just me and the mountain, the valley is home
Em D
C/G
And I've mined for silver, and I've dug for gold
Em D
C/G
But these days I find I'm just picking up coal
D
C/G
And the weather howls in through the holes in the roof
D
C/G
Till the only things standing are the ones with the roots
Am D
C/G
And it's worse, oh worse, like the son of a goat.
Em D C/G
Transcribed by Derfel.
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