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Quare Bungle Rye

by Traditional · posted by Dave_in_desert

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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
-3    4   4  4  -3 3   3     4   4   5   6
Now Jack was a sailor who roamed on the town
 6  -6  -5 -6  6 5    4     5    4   -3  3
And she was a damsel who skipped up and down
 -3  -3   4 4   4   -3  3   4    4     5  6
Said the damsel to Jack as she passed him by
  6    6   -6  -5  -6   6 5     4
"Would you care for to purchase some
 -5    5 -4   5  4 -3   3
quare bungle rye roddy rye?"
 6  -6   6 5   -5  5 -4   5  3 -3   4
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

  -3      4   4  4 -3      3   4    4    5  6
Thought Jack to himself, "Now what can this be?
 6   6  -6 -5  -6   6 5     4   5   4 -3 3
But the finest of whiskey from far Germany
 -3 -3   4   4 4  -3 3   3   4    4  5   6
Smuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly
 6   6   -6   -5  -6  6    5  4
And the name that it goes by is
 -5    5 -4   5  4 -3   3
quare bungle rye roddy rye?
 6  -6   6 5   -5  5 -4   5  3 -3   4
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

 -3   4    4  4  -3    3   3    4      4 5  
Jack gave her a pound and he thought nothing 
   6
strange
 6   6     -6  -5 -6  6 5     4   -4  5   4  -3  
She said "Hold on me basket, while I run for ye 
  3
change" 
 -3    4    4   4   -3 3   3  3 4 4   5   6
Jack looked in the basket and a baby did spy
 6   6  -6 -5    -6   6     5   4
"Oh, be damned! said Jack, this is
 -5    5 -4   5  4 -3   3
quare bungle rye roddy rye?"
 6  -6   6 5   -5  5 -4   5  3 -3   4
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

-3  -3  4   4    4     -3 3      3    4      4   
Now to get the child christened was Jack's first 
 5  6
intent
 6  6  -6  -5   -6      6 5       4  5    4   
For to get the child christened, to the parson 
-3  3
he went
 -3  -3   4 4   4   -3      3   4    4  5  6
Says the parson to Jack, "What will he go by?"
 6   6   -6 -5   -6   6     5    4
"Oh, be damned! says Jack, Call him
 -5    5 -4   5  4 -3   3
quare bungle rye roddy rye?"
 6  -6   6 5   -5  5 -4   5  3 -3   4
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

 -3   -3  4 4    4  -3      3    3   4 4    -5 
Said the parson to Jack, "That's a mighty queer 
 6
name"
 6    -6  -5  -6  6 5      4  -4   5   4   -3
Says Jack to the parson, "It's a queer way he 
 3
came
 -3 -3   4   4 4  -3 3   3   4   4   5   6
Smuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly
 6   6   -6   -5   -6   6   5  4
And the name that he'll go by is
 -5    5 -4   5  4 -3   3
quare bungle rye roddy rye?"
 6  -6   6 5   -5  5 -4   5  3 -3   4
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye

 -3  4   4    4    -3 3    3    4   4  5   6
Now all you young sailors who roam on the town
 6 -6  -5   -6    6 5    4    5    4  -3  3
Beware of those damsels who skips up and down
 -3 4   4   4   -3 3   3  4    4    5  6
Beware of them ladies as they pass you by
6   -6   -5  -6   6    5   4
Or else they may flog you some
 -5    5 -4   5  4 -3   3
quare bungle rye roddy rye?
 6  -6   6 5   -5  5 -4  
Fol the diddle rye roddy
 6  -6   6 5   -5  5 -4   
Fol the diddle rye roddy 
 6  -6   6 5   -5  5 -4   5  3 -3   4
Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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