Empty chairs at empty tables, from Les Miserables

by Claude Michel Schonberg · posted by grey_air

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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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Tab

Also called The Cafe song.  I took out the middle part, it didn't translate well to the harmonica.(It was probably just me)

  -6    -6  -7   -6   6     -5   -55
there's  a grief that can't  be spoken

  -6    -6  -7   -6  6  -5  56
there's a  pain goes on and on

 6 6    -6    6  -5 5   5 -4
empty chairs at  empty tables

 5  -5    5     5   -3   -3  5
now my friends are dead and gone


 -6   -6    -7   -6  6 -5 -5 5
here they talked of revolution

 -6  -6  -7   -6   6  -5   56
here it  was they lit the flame

 6    6    -6   6-5   5 5 -4
here they sang about tomorrow

 5  -5  5 5   -3 -4  5
and tomorrow  never came


-6 -6    -7    -6   6       -5 -5  5
oh my friends, my friends  forgive me

 -6  -6  -7   -6   6   -5  56
that  I live and  you are gone

  6     6  -6    6    -5  5    5-4
there's a grief that cant be spoken

  5     -5    5   5   -3  -3 5
there's  a  pain goes on and on


 7 7     -8 7 -7  -6  -6 6
phantom faces at the window

 7 7     -8 7   -7  -6  6 -7
phantom shadows on the floor

-7 -7     7    -7  -6 6   6 -5
empty  chairs at   empty tables 

 6    -6   6      6   -4   5   -5
where my friends will meet no more

 7  7    -8     7    8      -8   -8  6
oh my friends, my friends don't ask me

 7    7    -8 7 -7  -6   -7
what your sacrifice was for

-7 -7     7   -7  -66   6-5
empty  chairs at empty tables

  6   -6   6      6    -4  5   3
where my friends will sing no more

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