Biografia:
Levon Helm, nome artístico de Mark Lavon Helm (26 de maio de 1940) é um multi-instrumentista e ator estadunidense, mais conhecido como vocalista e baterista do grupo de rock The Band. Helm se tornou célebre por sua voz profundamente sentimental e seu estilo criativo de bateria, características bem representadas em gravações do The Band como "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek" e "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Seu álbum solo de 2007
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SONG: KINGFISH
ARTIST: LEVON HELM
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: [email protected]
KINGFISH
LEVON HELM
INTRO:
D D Bm A D D D D A
VERSE:
A D A D
Well there's a hundred-thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
A D A D
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
A D A
But your house could burn down
D A
Or your babies could drown
D G D A
Wouldn't none of them Frenchmen care
VERSE:
D A D A
Everybody gather 'round
D A
Loosen up your suspenders
D A
Hunker down on the ground
D A
I'm a cracker
D A
You are too
D G D A
But don't I take good care of you
PRE-CHORUS:
D G
Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
D G
Who put up your hospital and built your schools?
D G
Who is it looks after shit-kickers like you?
D Bdim A D A
You know the Kingfish do
PRE-CHORUS:
D G
Who gave a big party down at the Roosevelt Hotel?
D G
Invited the whole north half of the state down for free
D G
Everybody in the city had their eyes bugging out
D Bdim A D
'Cause everybody looked like me
CHORUS:
D Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, yeah the Kingfish
Bm Em D F#
Everybody sing
Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, oh the Kingfish
Bm Em D F# A
Make every man a king
PRE-CHORUS:
D G
Who took on the Standard Oil men and whipped their ass
D G
Just like he promised he'd do?
D G
But it ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state
D Bdim A D
It's gonna be run by folks like me and you
CHORUS:
D Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, oh the Kingfish
Bm Em D F#
Friend of the working man
Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, the Kingfish
Bm Em D F# A
Kingfish gonna save this land
INSTRUMENTAL:
D G D G D G D G D D Bdim A D
CHORUS:
D Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, oh the Kingfish
Bm Em D F#
Friend of the working man
Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, oh the Kingfish
Bm Em D F# A
Kingfish gonna save this land
INSTRUMENTAL:
D G D G D Em G D Bdim A D
D G D G D Em G D Bdim A D FADE OUT
ARTIST: LEVON HELM
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
EMAIL: [email protected]
KINGFISH
LEVON HELM
INTRO:
D D Bm A D D D D A
VERSE:
A D A D
Well there's a hundred-thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
A D A D
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
A D A
But your house could burn down
D A
Or your babies could drown
D G D A
Wouldn't none of them Frenchmen care
VERSE:
D A D A
Everybody gather 'round
D A
Loosen up your suspenders
D A
Hunker down on the ground
D A
I'm a cracker
D A
You are too
D G D A
But don't I take good care of you
PRE-CHORUS:
D G
Who built the highway to Baton Rouge?
D G
Who put up your hospital and built your schools?
D G
Who is it looks after shit-kickers like you?
D Bdim A D A
You know the Kingfish do
PRE-CHORUS:
D G
Who gave a big party down at the Roosevelt Hotel?
D G
Invited the whole north half of the state down for free
D G
Everybody in the city had their eyes bugging out
D Bdim A D
'Cause everybody looked like me
CHORUS:
D Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, yeah the Kingfish
Bm Em D F#
Everybody sing
Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, oh the Kingfish
Bm Em D F# A
Make every man a king
PRE-CHORUS:
D G
Who took on the Standard Oil men and whipped their ass
D G
Just like he promised he'd do?
D G
But it ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state
D Bdim A D
It's gonna be run by folks like me and you
CHORUS:
D Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, oh the Kingfish
Bm Em D F#
Friend of the working man
Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, the Kingfish
Bm Em D F# A
Kingfish gonna save this land
INSTRUMENTAL:
D G D G D G D G D D Bdim A D
CHORUS:
D Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, oh the Kingfish
Bm Em D F#
Friend of the working man
Bm F# Bm F#
Here comes the Kingfish, oh the Kingfish
Bm Em D F# A
Kingfish gonna save this land
INSTRUMENTAL:
D G D G D Em G D Bdim A D
D G D G D Em G D Bdim A D FADE OUT
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