Ragtime Cowboy Joe

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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

RAGTIME COWBOY JOE
W: Grant Clarke
M: Lewis Muir & Maurice Abrahams
The Chipmunks
Key: C

3  -3  -4    4
He al-ways sings
 4  -4 4  -4  4  -4   4  -4
Rag-gy mu-sic to the cat-tle 
4  4*   -5
as he swings
 -5   5* -5   5*  -5  6  -5   4
Back and for-ward in the sad-dle
-3 -3* -4
On a horse
 -4 -3* -4 -3* -4 -3*  -4  3
That is syn-co-pat-ed-gait-ed
-3     -4    4  -4  4  -5 6  -5 
And there's such a fun-ny me-ter
5   6    -5  6  -5  4   -3  3   
To the sound of his re-peat-er.
-3   -4   4
How they run
 4    -4   4    -4   4   -4    4
When they hear that fel-low's gun
-4   4    4*  -5   6   -5    4   -3
Be-cause the West-ern folks all know
  4 -4  -3  -4  4  -4
He's a high-fa-lut-in', 
 -3   -4     4   -4
Scoot-in', shoot-in',
-3  -3 -4 4   -4  -3 -4 4 -5
Son of a gun from Ar-i-zon-a,
 6   6    6  -5   5
Rag-time cow-boy Joe.

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