My Old Flame

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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
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Tab

MY OLD FLAME
By Arthur Johnson & Sam Coslow
Billie Holiday
Key: G

-8 -9   -6
My old flame
6  -7   -7 -7  -7   -8  8   -5*
I can't ev-en think of his name
-5    6   7  7  -5   6   7
But it's fun-ny now and then
7   -7    -7*  -7*  -6    7  -7*  7 -7*
How my thoughts go flash-ing back a-gain
8  -9 -7   -7
To my old flame

-8 -9   -6
My old flame
6  -7  -7  -7  -7   -8  8   -5*
My new lov-ers all seem so tame
-5  6   7   7  -5  6  7
For I have-n't met a gent

7  -7  -7*-7* -6  7 -7* 7 -7*
So mag-nif-i-cent or el-e-gant
8  -9 -7   -7
As my old flame

-9   -9 -7* -7*-6 -6   6
I've met so man-y who had
-5* -6 -5* -6  -5*
Fas-ci-nat-in’ ways
-5-5* -6 -5* -6   -5* 5*  -5    -7
A fas-ci-nat-in’ gaze in their eyes
7    -7    7  -7  7 6  -6    8
Some who took me up to the skies
-7*  -7   -7    7   7   6
But their at-tempts at love
-7   -9 -9 8  8 -7  -7  -7*
Were on-ly im-i-ta-tions of
-8 -9    -6
My old flame

6  -7   -7 -7   -7  -8  8   -5*
I can't ev-en think of his name
-5    6   7  7  -5  6   7
But I'll nev-er be the same
7  -7 -7*-7* -6  7  -7*  7   -7*
Un-til I dis-cov-er what be-came
8  -9 -7*   7
Of my old flame

REPEAT

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound