The Werewolf

Written by: Paul Simon
From: “Stranger to Stranger” (2016)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

CHORDS
D5    x-x-0-2-3-x
Dsus2 x-x-0-2-3-0
B5    x-2-4-4-x-x
Bsus2 x-2-4-4-2-x
G#11  3-x-0-0-2-x
G5    3-x-0-0-x-x

Intro

| N.C. | % | % | %
 (percussion only)

Verse

N.C.
Milwaukee man led a fairly decent life
       N.C.
Made a fairly decent living
      N.C.
Had a fairly decent wife
N.C.
  She killed him ... ah, sushi knife
N.C.
Now they’re shopping
      N.C.
For a fairly decent afterlife

Chorus

[ D5    D    Dsus2 D5 ]
  Oooh, ooh, ooh,  ooh

G Aaug D

  Oooh, ooh, ooh
    N.C.
The werewolf is coming
[ D5    D    Dsus2 D5 ]
  Oooh, ooh, ooh,  ooh
[ D5 ]
  Oooh, ooh, ooh

Verse

    N.C.
The fact is most obits are mixed reviews
N.C.
Life is a lottery
  N.C.
A lot of people lose
        N.C.
And the winners, the grinners
     N.C.
With money-colored eyes
N.C.
Eat all the nuggets
          N.C.
Then they order extra fries

Chorus

    N.C.
The werewolf is coming (extra fries)
    N.C.
The werewolf is coming, you know
    D5
The werewolf’s coming
    D5
The werewolf’s coming
         D5                      D7
Yes, the werewolf is coming, Joe

Middle 8

G
 I hear her howling, prowling on the hill
    D5
The werewolf’s coming, Bill

Verse

N.C.
Ignorance and arrogance
    N.C.
The national debate
N.C.
Put the fight in Vegas
         N.C.
That’s a billion-dollar gate
D5
Revenue: Pay-per-view
N.C.
Should be pretty healthy
    D5
The usual deductions
        N.C.
Then it all goes to the wealthy

Chorus

D5
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
          N.C.
Still the werewolf’s coming
D5
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
          N.C.
Yeah, the werewolf’s coming

Verse

N.C.
 I’m not complaining
         N.C.
Just the opposite, my friend
N.C.
 I know it’s raining
          N.C.
But we’re coming to the end of the rainbow
    N.C.
The lying and the spying are through
N.C.
 Oh! You don’t know me?
N.C.
 O.K. I don’t know you, too

Chorus

    D5
The werewolf’s coming, werewolf’s coming, oh
    D5
The werewolf’s coming, a werewolf’s coming
    D5
The werewolf is coming, Joe

Middle 8

G
 I hear her howling, prowling on the hill
    D5
The werewolf’s coming, Bill

Verse

             N.C.
You’d better stock up on water
N.C.
Canned-goods off the shelves
    N.C.
And loot some for the old folks
      N.C.
Can’t loot for themselves
    N.C.
The doorbell’s ringing
N.C.
Could be the elves
         N.C.
But it’s probably the werewolf
     N.C.
It’s quarter to twelve

Bridge

                       D D
And when it’s midnight
        G
And the wolf bites
       D    D
It’s a full moon
                   G
She really got the appetite

Coda

[ B5 | Bsus2 |
    Bm7                | Bm7 |
The werewolf’s coming
Em      F#m
    The werewolf
G       A
    The werewolf