Fairytale of New York
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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
- < or *
- Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)
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2 2 +3 2 4 +4
It was Christmas Eve babe
+6 6 +6 5
In the drunk tank
4 +5 5 +4 2 2 +4 5 +5 +5 4 4
An old man said to me, won't see another one
+3 +4 3 4 +4 +4
And then he sang a song
+6 + 6 6 +6 5 5
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
4 +5 5 +4 3 2
I turned my face away
+4 5 +5 4 +4
And dreamed about you
+3 +4 3 4 +4 +4
Got on a lucky one
5 5 +5 +5 4 4
Came in eighteen to one
5 +6 6 +6 2
I've got a feeling
+4 5 +5 +5 4 4
This year's for me and you
+3 +4 3 4 +4
So happy Christmas
+6+7 7 7 6
I love you baby
+6 6 7 +7 +6+5 +5
I can see a better time
+4 5 +5 4 +4 +4
When all our dreams come true
+4 +4 +4 4 +5 4
They've got cars big as bars
+4 4 +5 4 3 2
They've got rivers of gold
+4 +4 +4 4 +5 +6 +5
But the wind goes right through you
+6 +6 +6 +5 +4 4
It's no place for the old
+6 +6 +6+ +5 +4 4
When you first took my hand
+4 4 +5 4 +4 2
On a cold Christmas Eve
+4 +4 4 +5
You promised me
+6 +5 +4 4 +5 4 +4
Broadway was waiting for me
+6 +6 +6 6
You were handsome
+6 +5 +4
You were pretty
+6 +6 +5 +4 4 +4
Queen of New York City
+4 4 +5 4 +4 3 2
When the band finished playing
3 2 +4 3 +4
They howled out for more
+6 +66 +6 +5 +4
Sinatra was swinging,
+6 +6 +6 +5 +4 4 +4
All the drunks they were singing
4 +5 4 +4 3 2
We kissed on a corner
3 +3 +4 3 +4
Then danced through the night
+6 6 6 6 67+7+7 7
The boys of the NYPD choir
6 +6 +5 +4 4 +5
Were singing "Galway Bay"
+4 4 +5 +4 5 + 5 4
And the bells were ringing out
+4 +5 4 +4
For Christmas day
You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound
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