Big Train

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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  5   -4
When I was young

-5  5    6  -5 -6   6
I spent my sum-mer days

  6   6   6  5  -4
Play-in' on the track

 3    4   -4  5    -4
The sound of the wheels

  5  5   -5  6   -5
Roll-in' on the steel

  5   5  6   -4  -4  5
Took me out,took me back

chorus-

 7    7    -6   6    5
Big train from Mem-phis

 7     7   -6   6    5
Big train from Mem-phis

 4   4    -4   -5   5
Now it's gone,gone,gone

 -4   -4   4
Gone,gone,gone

verse2.
Like no one before
He let out a roar
And I just had to tag along
Each night I went to bed
With the sound in my head
And the dream was a song

chorus-

verse3.
Well I've rode 'em in
And back out again
You know what they say about trains
But I'm tellin' you
When that Memphis train came through
This ol' world
Was not the same
chorus-

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