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Tallest Man on Earth: Wild Hunt

Written by The Tallest Man on Earth (Kristian Mattson)
Released on The Wild Hunt (2010)
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

The F chord sometimes has the open 6th string (sounding or muted), sometimes the 505400 shape.

In the Bb chord, the sixth string is muted with the free fingers.

Capo 4th fret (sounding key A major)
Tuning: CFcfc’f’
F       505400   or  x05400
C'      024000
Dm      202000
Dm7     200000
Gm      x22500
F/e     404000
Bb      x52000
     
Intro and interlude:

  F                 C                 Dm                    Dm7 Dm  Dm7
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-4---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-----0---2---0---|
|-0---------------|-2---------------|-0---------------|-----0---0---0---|
|(5)--------------|-0---------------|-2---------------|-----2---2---2---|
  Gm                F                 C
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-5---------------|/4---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-2---------------|/5---------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
|-2---------------|-0---------------|-2---------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|(5)--------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
  C7      F         C       F         Dm                    Dm7 Dm  Dm7
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-5-------4-------|-2-------0-------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-7-------5-------|-4-------2---0---|-2---------------|-----0---2---0---|
|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0---------------|-----0---0---0---|
|-----------------|-2---------------|-2---------------|-----2---2---2---|
  Gm                F                 C
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
|-----------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------||
|-5---------------|/4---------------|-0---------------|-----------------||
|-2---------------|/5---------------|-4---------------|-----------------||
|-2---------------|-0---------------|-2---------------|-----------------||
|-----------------|(5)--------------|-0---------------|-----------------||
                                                                 There is a
Verse:
   F                 F/e               Bb
   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-0---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
||-4---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-----------------|
||-0---------------|-0---------------|-5---------------|-----------------|
||(5)--------------|-4---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  Crow Moon coming   in  where you keep looking now              It is the
  F                 F/e               C
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-4---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-5---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-0---------------|-2---------------|-----------------|
|(5)--------------|-4---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
 hollow month of   March now sweeping in                    let's watch phe-
  F                 F/e               Bb
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-4---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-0---------------|-5---------------|-----------------|
|(5)--------------|-4---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  nomenons that rise out of the       darkness now.           Within the
  F                 C                 F
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-0---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-4---------------|-0---------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
|-5---------------|-4---------------|-5---------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-2---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|(5)--------------|-0---------------|(5)--------------|-----------------|
  light she is my   storming hero  -  ine
And old machines abandoned by the ancient races stand -
I hear them humming down below in hollow earth.
Oh hell, I guess I know no wile I will go under to,
But just for now I let the spring and storm return.

I left my

  F                 Bb  F/a C   F
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-4---------------|-------------4---|-----------------|
|-5---------------|-2---0---0---5---|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-5---4---2---0---|-----------------|
|(5)--------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  heart   to the   wild hunt a  coming              I
  Dm                C
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-2---------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
|-0---------------|-2---------------|-----------------|
|-2---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
  live    until the call                        and I
  Gm                F                 C
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-5---------------|-4---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
|-2---------------|-5---------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
|-2---------------|-0---------------|-2---------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|(5)--------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
  plan to be for    gotten when I'm gone                    Yes I'll be leavin in the
  F    [etc. with intro]
  fall
And I will sleep out in the glade, just by the giant tree,
Just to be closer when my spirit's pulled away.
I left a nervous little boy out on the trail today,
He's just a mortal to the shoutin' cavalcade.
I left my heart to the wild hunt a-comin'
I live until the call
And I plan to be forgotten when I'm gone
Yes I'll be leavin' in the fall
Let's open up the windows, have Satan departin' now,
And we'll be even when the blues fall down like hail.
Hell, I don't even care no more about Cadejo now,
If he's a white one or a black one on the trail.
I left my heart to the wild hunt a-comin
I live until the call
And I plan to be forgotten when I'm gone
Yes I'll be leavin' in the fall

[intro]

Yes, I'll be leaving in the

|-0---------------------------------------------------0-----0------|
|-0---------------------------------------------------0-----0------|
|-0---------------------------------------------------0-----0------|
|-2-------4--5--7---5----10-----0--2----4--5--7-------0-----5------|
|-0---------------------------------------------------0-----0------|
|-2-------4--5--7---5----10-----0--2----4--5--7-------0-----5------|
  fall

*) I don’t know in which Scandi-English dialect this makes sense, but I’ve listened to enough different versions to be pretty certain that that’s what he actually sings, and that all the other possible interepretations (“I know not why I will go under”, “I know now that I will go under”, etc.), while possible more meaningful are nevertheless not what he sings. Suggestions?

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