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Aqualung

by Jethro Tull · posted by chibluesteve

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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
tabed for C Tenor

-5 3 <-3 4 <4 4
-5 3 <-3 4 <4 4

-9  7  <-7 8  <8    8 
Sitting on a park bench
<-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9  <-7   8  <8  8
 eyeing little girls with bad intent.
 -9  <-7  8   <8  <8   8 
Snot running down his nose
<-9 <-9 <-9 <-7  <-7  8   8 <8  8 <-9 -10    
 greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes--.
-9  7 <-7  8  <8 8  8  
Drying in the cold sun
 <8 <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 -10 -10 <-9 -10 <-9 9 <-9
Watching as the frilly- pant----ies run-------------.
 -9  7  <-7  8 <8 8  8    
Feeling like a dead duck 
<-9  <-9 <-9 <-9 8 <-9 <-9  
spitting out pieces of his 
     <-9 -10 -10 <-9 -10 <-9 8
     brok----en- luck---------.
8 -9   8  <-7  8 <-7
Sun- streaking cold-
<-7  8  <-7  -9  8    <-7  7 
an- old man wandering lonely.
<-7 <-7 <-7 8 <-7 
Taking- time-----
<-7 -7 7 7 -5 -5  -6
the only way- he knows.
8 -9  8 <-7  8 <-7
Leg- hurting bad--,
8 <-7  8   <-7 8 -9 8 <-7  7  
as he bends to pick a dog-end
-7 <-7  <-7  8  <-7 -7 
he goes down to the bog
 7  7 -5  -5   -6 
and warms his feet.

-9  8   <-7 <-7 8 <-7
Feeling a---lone-----           
<-7 8 <-7  -9 8 -9 <-7 3
the army's up the- road-
<-7 <-7 <-7 <-7 8 <-7 -7 7 
salvation-- a---- la- mode 
 7  7  7  -5 -6
and a cup of tea.
-9 -9 8 <-7  8 <-7 
Aqualung my friend
8 <-7   8   <-7 <-7 -9 8 8 <-7 7
don't start a---way----- uneasy-
<-7 <-7  <-7 <-7 8  <-7 -7    7   7 -5 -6 
you poor old sod--, you see, it's only me.
7   7   <-7  -9 -9  8
Do you still remember               
<-7 8 <-7  8 <-7   -9
December's foggy freeze
 7    7   7   7 
when the ice that
 <-7   8 -9 -9  8   8 <-7  
clings on-- to your beard 
<-7   8 <-7   -9 <-7 7 -6
was screaming agony------.
-9  -9    7     7   <-7 8 -9  -9     8 
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
<-7   8   <-7 8 <-7 <-7 <-7  8 -9
with deep sea d-----i---ver sounds,
 7  -7  <-7 <-7  <-7  <-7 8
and the flowers bloom like-
8 <-7 <-7 <-7 8 -9 8 <-7 8 
mad---ness in the- spring.
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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