Copper Kettle

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: 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)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

COPPER KETTLE 
By Albert Frank Beddoe
Joan Baez
Key: Eb
Played on a Bb diatonic

-5  -5 -5  6   6  -6   7
Get you a cop-per ket-tle 
-5  -5 -5  6  -5   -6
Get you a cop-per coil
-6  -6  -6  -6   6   -5 5 -4
Cov-er with new made corn mash 
-4   6  6    6   -6     6
And nev-er more you'll toil

Chorus:
7       7   -8    -8  -8  8  -8  7 -6   
You’ll just lay there by the ju-ni-per
-8     7   7   -6   -6
While the moon is bright
-8     -8   -8  7  -6   6
Watch them jugs a-fill-in’
-5 -5   5-5  5    -4
In the pale moon-light


Build your fires of hickory
Hickory or ash or oak
Don't use no green or rotten wood
They'll catch you by the smoke

(Chorus)

My daddy he made whiskey
My granddaddy did too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax
Since Seventeen Ninety Two

(Chorus)

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