Hatikvah / Israeli National Anthem

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

"The Hope"

6-6 -7  7 -8 -8 -8 8-889 -8
Kol ode balevav P'ni-    mah 

7 7    7 -7-7 -66-6-7 6
Nefesh Yehudi ho- mi- yah

446 -6-77 -8  -8  8-8 89 -8
Ulfa'atey mizrach ka- di mah

7 7  7 -7 -7 -66  -6-7 6
Ayin l'tzion tzo- fi-  yah.


6   9  9 9   -9 9 -9 8
Ode lo avdah tikvatenu

69 9  9  -9  9     -98  -8
Hatikvah bat shnot alpayim:

7  7    7   -7 -7  7-8 8 9 -8 7 -7
L'hiyot am chofshi be- ar- tzenu - 

7 7   -7 -7 -7  -6 6 -6-76
Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalayim.

English Translation:
 
As long as deep in the heart,
The soul of a Jew yearns,
And towards the East
An eye looks to Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free people in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

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