Tabs
Hank (Rolling In My Grave) by The Henningsens
no capo, standard tuning
This entire song is more or less picked, though there is no set pattern. This is the pattern I use, but feel
free to play it with your own take on it.
Verse:
A minorAm G+G C majorC FF E MajorE A minorAm
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
BB|-----1-------0---|-----1-------1---|-----0-------0---|-----1-------1---|
G+G|---2---2---0---0-|---0---0---2---2-|---1---1---1---1-|---2---2---2---2-|
D MajorD|-----2-------0---|-----2-------3---|-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|
A augmentedA|-0---------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-0-------0-------|
E MajorE|---------3-------|-----------------|-0-------0-------|-----------------| x2
Chorus:
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF G+G
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
BB|-----1-------1---|-----1-------0---|-----1-------1---|----0-------0---|
G+G|---0---0---0---0-|---2---2---0---0-|---2---2---2---2-|--0---0---0---0-|
D MajorD|-----2-------0---|-----2-------0---|-----3-------3---|----0-------0---|
A augmentedA|-3-------2-------|-0---------------|-3-------3-------|----------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|---------3-------|-----------------|-3------3-------|
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF E MajorE A minorAm
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|---------------|
BB|-----1-------1---|-----1-------0---|-----1-------1---|----0-------0---|----1------1---|
G+G|---0---0---0---0-|---2---2---0---0-|---2---2---2---2-|--1---1---1---1-|--2---2--2---2-|
D MajorD|-----2-------0---|-----2-------0---|-----3-------3---|----2-------2---|----2------2---|
A augmentedA|-3-------2-------|-0---------------|-3-------3-------|----------------|-0------0------|
E MajorE|-----------------|---------3-------|-----------------|-0------0-------|---------------|
Bridge:
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF C majorC G/BG/B
e|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
BB|-----1-------1---|----1----------|-----1-------1---|-----1-----------|
G+G|---0---0---0---0-|--2---2--2---0-|---2---2---2---2-|---0---0---0---0-|
D MajorD|-----2-------0---|----2----------|-----3-------3---|-----2-----------|
A augmentedA|-3-------2-------|-0------0------|-3-------3-------|-3-------3-------|
E MajorE|-----------------|-----------3---|-----------------|-------------3---|
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC DmDm G+G DmDm C majorC G+G
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----1-------1---|----------------|-----1-----------|----------------|
BB|-----1-------0---|-----1-------1---|---3---3---3---3-|----0-------0---|---3---3-----1---|----0-------0---|
G+G|---2---2---0---0-|---2---2---0---0-|-----2-------2---|--0---0---0---0-|-----2-----0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|
D MajorD|-----2-------0---|-----3-------2---|-0-------0-------|----0-------0---|-0-----------2---|----0-------0---|
A augmentedA|-0---------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|----------------|---------3-------|----------------|
E MajorE|---------3-------|-----------------|-----------------|-3------3-------|-----------------|-3------3-------|
Verse 1:
A minorAm G+G C majorC FF E MajorE
I saw the ghost of Hank Williams this mornin’
A minorAm
On sixteenth avenue
A minorAm G+G C majorC FF E MajorE
Selling homeless papers on the corner for a dollar
A minorAm
Beneath the statue of The Muse
Chorus:
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF G+G
And I said, “Hank, have you come back to haunt or save?”
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF
He said, “I been rolling, rolling, rolling in my grave.
E MajorE A minorAm
I’m tired of rolling in my grave.”
Verse 2:
A minorAm G+G C majorC FF E MajorE
He said, “Sometimes I’ll walk along these streets alone for hours
A minorAm
With a guitar in my hand
G+G C majorC FF E MajorE
I rattle doors and press my face against the windows
A minorAm
Nobody lets me in.”
Chorus:
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF G+G
And I said, “Hank, have you come back to haunt or save?”
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF
He said, “I been rolling, rolling, rolling in my grave.
E MajorE A minorAm
I’m tired of rolling in my grave.”
Bridge:
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G
He said, “Son, it looks like you’ve worn the soles clear out your boots.
FF C majorC G/BG/B
Trying to walk that long, hard road so far from your roots,
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC
But don’t you ever be ashamed of a lonesome song with three chords and the truth.”
DmDm G+G
And I paid him for the paper with some change
DmDm C majorC G+G
And he shook my hand as it began to rain
Chorus:
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF G+G
And I said, “Hank, have you come back to haunt or save?”
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm G+G FF
He said, “I been rolling, rolling, rolling in my grave.
E MajorE A minorAm
I’m tired of rolling in my grave.”
Verse/Outro:
A minorAm G+G C majorC FF E MajorE
I saw the ghost of Hank Williams this mornin’
A minorAm
On sixteenth avenue
A minorAm G+G C majorC FF E MajorE
Selling homeless papers on the corner for a dollar
Am*