Happy Jack tab by The Who

Tabs

Happy Jack
By The Who, 1966
Written by Pete Townshend

A7A7   x022xx

 (intro pattern)
|------------------------|----
|------------------------|----
|---------0---4----0-----|-2--
|-0---2-4-------2----4-0-|-0--
|------------------------|----
|------------------------|----

  D MajorD (main pattern; use palm mute)
||---------|---------||
||---------|---------||
||-2-------|-2-------||
||-0-4-4-4-|-0-4-4-4-||
||---5-5-5-|---5-5-5-||
||---------|---------||
|[bass]       ||
||---------|---------||
||---------|---------||
||-5-------|-5-------||
||-------5-|-------5-||

D MajorD
   D MajorD      D MajorD      A7A7  D MajorD
Happy Jack wasn't old, ...
  D MajorD      D MajorD      A7A7   D MajorD
He lived in the ...

[intro riff]

  D MajorD       D MajorD       A7A7    D MajorD
The kids would all sing, he ...
    D MajorD      D MajorD       A7A7  D MajorD
So they rode on his head ...

D MajorD

  G+G
The kids ...
   A augmentedA
They tried and ..
   G+G
They dropped things on ...
  Asus4Asus4       A augmentedA         Asus4Asus4  A augmentedA
And lied and lied ...

But they couldn't stop ....

| A augmentedA  | D MajorD  | A augmentedA  | D MajorD  | A augmentedA  | D MajorD  | A augmentedA  | D MajorD  Dsus4Dsus4 |

But they couldn't stop Jack, or the ....

| A augmentedA  | D MajorD  | A augmentedA  | D MajorD  | G+G  | A augmentedA D MajorD | G+G  |

| A augmentedA A majorA | A augmentedA A majorA | A augmentedA A majorA | A augmentedA A majorA | A.......

The kids couldn't hurt ...

But they couldn't stop Jack or ....

[opening lick ]

I saw ya

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