Star of the County Down

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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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hTpNlumfuk

As an Irish folk song, it can be played a lot slower than in the video.

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In Banbridge Town in the County Down
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One morning last July,
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From boreen green came a sweet colleen
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And she smiled as she passed me by.

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She looked so sweet from her two bare feet
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To the sheen of her nut brown hair.
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Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself
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For to see I was really there.

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From Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay and
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From Galway to Dublin Town,
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No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
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That I met in the County Down.

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