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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Smokestack Lightning</h1>
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  15
  16 <p>Howlin' Wolf<br />
  17 Played by Bob Dylan on Cynthia Gooding's <em>Folksinger's Choice</em>
  18 radio show, March 11, 1962<br />
  19 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  22
  23 <p>The entire song is really nothing more than a fooling around with a
  24 finger-picked E major chord, toying with the third (g#) in either
  25 direction, either towards Em or towards Esus4. It would be senseless
  26 to tab the entire thing: just finger an E chord, let the thumb start
  27 working (either just alternating between strings 6 and 4, or, as Dylan
  28 does, in a more irregular pattern, involving even the 5th string), and
  29 add flourishes like the following sample (heard for quite some time at
  30 the beginning of the second verse), or those found in the intro (see
  31 below).</p>
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  33 <pre class="tab">
  34       :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  35 ----|---0-------0-----|---0-------0------|
  36 ----|-----------------|------------------|
  37 --2-|-------0h1-----2-|-------0h1--------|
  38 ----|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2----|
  39 ----|-----------------|------------------|
  40 ----|-0-------0-------|-0-------0--------|
  41 </pre>
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  44
  45 <p>Intro:</p>
  46 <pre class="tab">
  47   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .   .   .
  48 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-3-------0---------0-----|
  49 |-----------------|-----------0-----|-----------------|-------------------------|
  50 |-----------------|-------------1---|-2-----0--h1-----|-------------------------|
  51 |-----2-------2---|-----2-----------|-----------------|-------------------------|
  52 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------------|
  53 |-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0---0-------0---|-----0-------0---0---0---|
  54 </pre>
  55 <pre class="tab">
  56   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  57 |-----------------|-----------0-----|-3b----0---------|---------------0-|
  58 |-2---------------|-0---------0-----|-----------------|-----------------|
  59 |-----------------|-------1---------|-----------0--h1-|-----1-----------|
  60 |-----------------|-----------------|-------------2---|-----------2-----|
  61 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----2-----------|
  62 |-----0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0-------|-0-------0--(0)--|
  63 </pre>
  64 <pre class="tab">
  65                         &gt;       &gt;         &gt;       &gt;
  66   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  67 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  68 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  69 |---0--h1---0--h1-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  70 |-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
  71 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  72 |-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
  73                                                             Hard days...
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  76 <pre class="verse">
  77 Hard days, Smokestack Lightning
  78 shining down like ghost
  79 Can't you hear me crying?
  80
  81 Tell me, tell me baby
  82 Just where you stayed last night.
  83 Can't you hear me crying?
  84
  85 Please stop your train, and
  86 let a poor boy ride.
  87 Can't you hear me crying?
  88
  89 Tell me, tell me baby
  90 Just what's the matter here.
  91 Can't you hear me crying?
  92
  93 Hey you been fooling
  94 Who's been here since I been gone? Little Billy Boy?
  95 Can't you hear me crying?
  96 </pre>
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  99
 100 <pre class="verse">
 101 Dylan: &quot;Did you like that?&quot;
 102 Cynthia: &quot;Yeah, I sure do!&quot;
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