Tiny Fish for Japan
by Stan Rogers · posted by Leems
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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.
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Where Patterson Creek's muddy waters run down
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Past the penny arcades, by the harbour downtown,
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All the old Turtlebacks rust in the rain-6 -7 7 -7 -6 6 5 -4 4
Like they never will leave there again.
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But leave there they will in the hours before dawn,7 7 -7 -6 6 5 5 -5 6 5 -4
Slip out in the darkness without word or song;5 5 4 5 6 -5 -6 6 6 7 -8 7
For a few more years yet they will work while they can7 7 -7 -6 6 5 -4 4
To catch tiny fish for Japan.-8 -8 -8 7 -8 8 -8 7 -7 -6 6
No white fish or trout here, we leave them alone.7 7 7 -7 -6 6 5 5 -5 6 -6 -4
The inspectors raise hell if we take any home.-8 -8 7 -8 8 -8 7 -7 -6 6
What kind of fisherman can't eat his catch-6 -6 5 -6 7 -7 -6 6
Or call what he's taken his own?5 5 4 5 6 -5 -6 6 6 7 -7 7
But the plant works three shifts now. There's plenty of pay.-6 -7 7 -7 -6 6 4 4 -5 6 -6 -4
We ship seventeen tons of this garbage each day.5 5 4 5 6 -5 6 -6 6 7 -7 7
If we want to eat fish, then we'll open a can,7 7 -7 -6 6 5 -4 4
And catch tiny fish for Japan.
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