Locomotive Breath 3rd pos.

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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

Key of Em played on a D Harp 

 Em G D Em   -4 -4 -5 4 -4(x3) 
                      
    -4 -4   -5  6 -5 -6  -6
    In the shuffling madness
 
    -4 -4   -4 -4 -5   -4 4 -4
    Of the locomotive breath
 
    -4   -4   -5   6   7-6
    Runs the all-time loser
 
    -6    -6   7 -6   -6  
    Head long to his death.
  
     7  -8     7 -6  6    6  -6
    He feels the piston scraping
 
    7  -6  6    6   6  6  -5 -4 
    Steam breaking on his brow
 
    -5 -5 -5  -5   -5   6  6  -5
    Ol Charly stol the handle and   
  
     6   -6   -6  -8    -8  -6 -6 
    The train it won’t stop going
  
     6  6  -6  6  -5 -4
    No way to slow down.
  
    -4  -4  -4  -5   6  -6 -6  -6
    He sees his childrn jumpin off

    -4  -4  -4  -4  -5  4  -4
    At the stations one by one.

    -4  -4 -4 -5   6   7    -6 
    His woman and his best frend
 
    -6  -6  -6   7 -6   -6
    In  bed and having  fun.

     7   -8   7   -6   6  6 -6  6
    He’s crawlin down the coridor
  
     7 -6    6   -5   -4
    On his hands and knees
 
    -5 -5  -5  -5   -5   6  6  -5  
    Ol Charly stole the handle and
 
     6   -6  -6  -8     -8  -6 -6
    The train it won’t stop going
 
     6  6  -6  -5  -4
    No way to slow down.
  
    -4 -4    -5   6  -5  -6  -6
    He hears the silence howling

    -4  -4  -4 -4   -5   4    -4
    Catches angels  as  they  fall.
   
    -4  -4  -5   6   7  -6
    And the all-time winner
  
     -6 -6  -6   7  -6   -6
    Has got him by  the balls.
 
     7   -8   7  -6  6   6  -6
    He picks up Gideon’s Bible
 
    7 -6  6  -5  -4
    Open at page one
 
    -5   -5   -5   -5  6   6  -5
    God  he  stole the handle and
  
     6   -6   -6  -8    -8  -6 -6
    The train it won’t stop going
   
     6  6  -6   -5  -4
    No way to slow down.

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