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Sitting on Top of the World (cross harp)

by Howlin' Wolf · posted by ,,,

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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

This song is already posted in Bb, but the lyrics for that one are not a version I know of. 
Here's the version I know...

-2   -3 4  -4   -4   4   -4 -3
One summer day, she went away
-4   -4   4   -3’ 3   -4     -4  4   3
She gone and left me, she's gone to stay.
-2   -2  -2    -3    3 -3  -3    3 3
But now she's gone, and I can't worry:
-2” -2   3  -3’ 3   -3’-3  -2  -2 -2   -2
Because I'm sitting  o-n   top of the world.
-2     -3   4  -4 -4    -4    4    4  4 -3’ -3
Worked all the summer, worked all the fa-l-l
-4  4   4    4  3     4  -4  4 -3’ 3
Had to take Christmas in my overalls.
-2  -2  -2  -3     3  -3 -3    3 -1
But now she gone, and I don't worry
-3’ 3   -3’ 3  -1 -2   -2
Sitting on top of the world.


-2 -2  -3  4   4   -4     -4
Going down to the freight yard,
 -4   4 -4   -3     -3
Catch me a freight train.
-4  -4     4    -3’  3  
I’m gon’ leave this town
-4    -4   -4 3 -1
Work done got ha-rd
-2  -2  -2  -3     3  -3 -3    3 -1
But now she gone, but I don't worry
-2” -2   3  -3’ 3   -3’-3  -2  -2 -2   -2
Because I'm sitting  o-n   top of the world.

 

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

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