Rolling Home (diatonic)

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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

  5 -5 6    6 -6   6  6  7
Up a-loft, a-mid the rig-ging
    7 -8  8      8  -8  7  -6
Swift-ly blows the fa-v'ring gale
    -7  7  -8       7  -7 -6  -6  6
Strong as spring-time in its blos-som
  6  6  -7      -6  6  -5  5
Fi-lling out each ben-ding sail
  5 -5  6      6  -6   6   6   7
And the waves we leave be-hind us
  7 -8  8     8  -8  7  -6
seem to mur-mer as they rise
  -7  7 -8     7  -7  -6  -6  6
We have ta-rried here to bear you
  5 -5  6     6  -6 -7  7
To the land you dear-ly prize


CHORUS
  5  -5  6      5   6   7
Rol-ling home rol-ling home
  7 -8  8      8  -8  7  6
Rol-ling home a-cross the sea
  -7 7 -8      7  -7  -6  -6   6
Rol-ling home to dear old Eng-land
  5 -5  6       6  -6  -7  7
Rol-ling home dear land to thee


VERSE 2
Call all hands to man the capstan
See the cable run down clear
Heave away and with a will boys
For old England we will steer
And we'll sing in joyful chorus
In the watches of the night
And we'll sight the shores of England
When the grey dawn brings the light

CHORUS

VERSE 3
Full ten thousand miles behind us
And a thousand miles before
Ancient ocean waves to waft us
To the well remembered shore
Newborn breezes swell to send us
To our childhood welcome skies
To the glow of friendly faces
And the glance of loving eyes

CHORUS