The Jeannie C.

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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)

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Tab


  6  -6   -7 5   5        6    5      -4 -4    -7 7 -7 -6     6  8 -8
Come all ye lads, draw near to me, that I be not forsaken
  8    8     -8     -7   -6   -6 -7    5    -6   -6   -6 -7  5     -4     5 6
This day was lost the Jeannie C. and my living has been taken
 -7 -6 6    -7  -6 6 6 
I'll go to sea no more  

  6    -6  -7   5    5    6  6     5       5  -4      -7     7     -7  -6  6  8 -8
We set out his day in the bright sunrise, the same as any other
 8     8    -8  -7  -6 -6    -7     5     6   6     -6      -7       5  -4    5 6
My son and I and old John Price in the boat named for my mother
 -7 -6  6 -7    -6   6 6
I'll go to sea no more