Bastille Day
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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.
-10 -10 9 8 9 9 9 9
Ohh, there's no bread, let them eat cake
9 9 8 -8 -8 -8 7 -8
There's no end to what they'll ta-ke
-10 9 -10 -10 -10 9 -10
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
-10 9 8 9 9 9 9
Wash the salt into the earth
7 7 -7 7 -9 -9 8 -8
But they're marching to Bastille Day
6 7 7 7 7 -8 -8 -8 9 9
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
7 7 -7 7 -9 -9 8 8 -8
Free the dungeons of the innocent
6 7 7 7 7 -8 -8 -8 -7 -6
The king will kneel and let his kingdom rise
-10 -10 9 8 9 9 9 -10
Ohh, bloodstained velvet, dirty lace
9 9 8 -8 -8 7 -8
Naked fear on every face
9 9 9 8 -8 7 8
See them bow their heads to die
-8 8 8 9 8 9 8 7
As we would bow as they rode by
7 7 -7 7 -9 -9 8 -8
And we're marching to Bastille Day
6 7 7 7 7 -8 -8 -8 9 9
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
7 7 -7 7 -9 -9 8 8 -8
Sing, oh choirs of cacophony
6 7 7 7 7 -8 -8 -8 -7 -6
The king has kneeled, to let his kingdom rise
-10 9 8 -10 -10 -10 -10
Lessons taught but n e v er learned
9 9 8 -8 -8 7 -8
All around us anger burns
-10 9 8 9 -10 9 -10
Guide the future by the past
-10 9 8 9 9 9 9
Long ago the mould was cast
7 7 -7 7 -9 -9 8 -8
For they marched up to Bastille Day
6 7 7 7 -8 -8 -8 9 9
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize
7 7 -7 7 -9 -9 8 8 -8
Hear the echoes of the centuries
7 7 7 7 -8 -8 -8 -7 -6
Power isn't all that money buys