The Unfortunate Rake
by Brendan Gleeson · posted by The_Iron_Corpse
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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.
6 6 -5 5 -5 6 5 -4 4 -3
As I went a-walking, down by the loch
3 4 4 -4 5 -5 -5 5 -4 4 -4
As I went a-walking, one monring of late
6 -5 5 -5 6 -5 5-4 4 -3 3
Who should I spy but, my old dear comrade
4 4 -4 5 -5 -5 5 -3 -4 4
Wrapped in white flannel, so hard was his fate
6 6 -5 5 -5 6 -5 5 -4 4 -3 3
I boldly stepped up to, and kindly did ask him
4 4 -4 5 -5 5 -4 4 -4
Why are you wrapped in, flannel so white?
5 6 -5 5 -5 6 -5 5-4 4 -3 3
"My body was injured, and sadly disordered"
3 4 4 -4 5 -5 -5 5 -3 -4 4
"All by a young woman, mine own heart's delight."
3 4 4 -3 -3 4 -4 -4 4 -3 3 3
"For had she but told me, when she disordered me"
5 -5 6 6 -5 5 5 -4 4 -4
"Had she but told me of it at the time"
5 6 -5 5 -5 6 -5 5 -4 4 3 3
"I might have got salts, or pills of white mercury"
3 4 4 -4 5 -5 -5 5 -3 -4 4
"But now I'm cut down, in the height of my prime."
6 6 -5 5 -5 6 -5 5 -4 4 -3 3
"Get six pretty maidens, to carry my coffin"
4 4 -4 5 -5 -5 5 -4 4 -4
"Six pretty maidens, to bear up my pall"
6 6 -5 -5 6 -5 5 -4 4 -3 3
"And give to each of them, bunches of roses"
3 4 4 -4 5 -5 -5 5 -3 -4 4
"So they do not smell me, when they go along"