Cracklin' Rosie (chromatic)

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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)

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Tab

CRACKLIN’ ROSIE
By: Neil Diamond
Key: D

  -7  -7  -7  -7 -7  -7 -8 -7 
Crack-lin Ros-ie get on board 
 -7   -7  -7  -7
We`re gon-na ride 
 -7   -7    -9   -7   7  -6* 6  
till there ain`t no more to go 
 6  6   -6* -4 
Tak-in` it slow, 
-4    6    6   -6*  -4 
and Lord don`t you know 
 -5    6  6  6   7    7  7  -7   -7   -8 8*
I`ll have me a time with a poor man`s la-dy 
  -7  -7  -7 -7 -7  -7     -8 
Hitch-in` on a twi-light train 
  -7   -7  -7   -7
Ain`t noth-in` here 
 -7 -7  -9  -7   7 -6*  6
that I care to take a-long 
 6  6 -6* -4 
May-be a song,
-4   6   6  -6* -4 
to sing when I want 
  -5    6  6   6    7    7  7  -7
Don`t need to say please to no man 
-7 -7 -8  8* -9-8-7
For a hap-py tune 

-5 -3 -4  3  -3  -3   -5
Oh I love my Ros-ie child  
-5  -5  -6*  7  7    6  -7 -6* -5
You got the way to make me hap-py 
-6* -6*  7  7  6  6  -6*
You and me we go in style 

  6   6  6    6    6    6   7     7    -6* 6
Crack-l-in` Rose you`re a store bought wom-an 
 6   7   7   7    7   7   7 -8  -8  -7   7
But you make me feel like a gui-tar hum-min` 
7   -8  -8 -8 -8  -8
So hang on to me girl 
-8   -9    -9  -8  -9   10
our song keeps run-nin` on 
 9*  9* -8-7   8*  8* -8-7 
Play it now,  Play it now,   
 8*  8*  8* -7 -8 -7
play it now my ba-by 

  -7  -7   -7  -7  -7  -7  -8
Crack-lin` Ros-ie make me smile 
-6*  -7  -7 -7   -7  -7  -7  -9
And girl if it lasts for an hour 
  7    -6*   6   6   6  -6*  -4
that`s all right we got all night, 
-4  6   6   -6*    -4
to set the world right 
 6   6  6   7     7   
Find us a dream that 
  7   -7  -7  -7    8*   -9
don`t ask no ques-tions Yeah 
  
-5 -3 -4  3  -3  -3   -5
Oh I love my Ros-ie child  
-5  -5  -6*  7  7    6  -7 -6* -5
You got the way to make me hap-py 
-6* -6*  7  7  6  6  -6*
You and me we go in style 

  6   6  6    6    6    6   7     7    -6* 6
Crack-l-in` Rose you`re a store bought wom-an 
 6   7   7   7    7   7   7 -8  -8  -7   7
But you make me feel like a gui-tar hum-min` 
7   -8  -8 -8 -8  -8
So hang on to me girl 
-8   -9    -9  -8  -9   10
our song keeps run-nin` on 
 9*  9* -8-7   8*  8* -8-7 
Play it now,  Play it now,   
 8*  8*  8* -7 -8 -7 -9-8-7
play it now my ba-by  yeah

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