What It Takes

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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

 -7   -8  -8  -7   -8     8      -8    -7  -8 -7   
There goes my old girl-friend, there's an-oth-er
-8   -8   -6    8   -9  9    9     9    9  
Dia-mond ring. And, uh all those late night 
 9  -9 -9  -8  -8   -8   -8     8  6   -7 
prom-is-es I guess they don't mean a thing.
 6 -7 -8   -8   -7  -8   8   -8 -7   -8
So ba-by what's The sto-ry? Did you find
-7 -8  -8 -6    8 -9
an-oth-er man? Is it 
  9 9  8    9   8  -8  9    9   9  -8     8  -8
Eas-y to sleep in the bed that we made? When you
  9     9    9  8   9    8    9    9    9    8
Don't look back I guess the feel-ings start to 
  9  9  8-8  8   9   8   9    9   8 9 -8   8    9
Fade a--way. I used to feel your fire but now it's
-10   9  -8    -8    8     9   9  8    9      8
Cold in-side. And you're back on the street like
 -8    9     8  9   9     9    -9  -9  -9  -8  
You didn't miss a beat, yeah. Tell me what it 
 -9   -8 -9  -10-10   -9  -9  -9  -9   10
takes To let you go. Tell me how the pain's
-10   9   -9 -9 -10  -9  -9  -9 -8
sup-posed to G--o.  Tell me how it
-9  -8  -9  -10  -10  -9  9
is that you can sleep in the
-10 10  -9   9   -10   9  -9    9  -8  -9  -10
Nig-ht with-out think-ing you lost ev-˜ry thing 
  9   -9   9  -8  -9  -10   9  -9   9  -8  -9  
That was good in your life to the toss of the 
 10
dice?

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