Bye Bye Blackbird (Play Along)

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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

Bye Bye Blackbird / Joe Cocker

Tabbed for C Chromatic (Key of Bb) so you can Play Along With Joe Cocker!


                       * Jimmy Page on guitar solo!

If you like Joe Cocker, you might like With A Little Help From My Friends!

And if you like Blues Ballads, you might like ...

If You Don't Know Me By Now (Simply Red)
Drown In My Own Tears (Johnny Winter)
Baby Grand (Ray Charles & Billy Joel)
New York State Of Mind (Billy Joel)
Georgia On My Mind (Ray Charles)
One For My Baby (Frank Sinatra)
Bye Bye Blackbird (Joe Cocker)
Cry Me A River (Julie London)
The Man I Love (Kate Bush)



Bye Bye Blackbird


Pack up all my cares and woes
 -5  -5 -5 -5 -5* -5  5  -5

Feeling low, here I go
-5 -3*   4    -5  5 -3*

(Bye Bye Blackbird  -7* -7*  -7* -7)
                     7   7    7  -6

I said bye, oh blackbird now
-3* -3* -3*  4   4  3 -2 -2


Where somebody waits for me
 -5* 5 -5* -5* 6* -5* -5 -5*

Sugar sweet, so is she
-5* 5  -5    -5  5 -5

(Bye Bye Blackbird   8  8   8 -7*)
                    -7 -7  -7 -6

I said bye, yeah,    oh that blackbird
4   4   4  -3 3 -2   -2   3   -3* -3*



No one seems to love,       or    understand me now
-5 -6   -6  -5 -6 -5 -3*  -5* -5   4 -3*  4   3  3

Oh and all the stories that    they keep handing me,   oh
-5* 5  -5* -5* 6* 5 -3* -3*     3   -3*  4 -3* -3* 4  3 -2

Where somebody shines the light
 -5   -5 -5 -5 -5* -5  5  -5

I'm coming on home tonight now
-3*  4  4  4   -5  -3*  3   3

(Bye Bye Blackbird   8  8   8 -7*)
                    -7 -7  -7 -6

I want to say bye bye,   woo o woo
3  3   -3* 4   4  -3*   -5* -5 -5* 6*



Nobody seems to love,      or    understand  me now
-5 -6 -6 -6 -5 -6 -5 -3*  -5* -5  4 -3* 4 -5  3  3

And oh all the stories  they keep on handing me
 5 -5* -5* -5* -5* -5     3  -3*   4  -5  5  5

Keep on handing me
 -5  -6  -6 -5 -6 -5  5 3 -2

I said somebody shines the light
-5 -5  -5 -5 -5 -5* -5  5  -5

Yes, I'm coming on home tonight now
-5    5  -5  5  -5  -5   4 -3*   3

(Bye Bye Blackbird   8  8   8 -7*)
                    -7 -7  -7 -6

Woo     yeah darling,  I wanna say,   blackbird now
7 -6 7   -5  -3* -3*  -3* 4 -3* 4 -6   -5  -3*  -3*

             cause I love you so
6* -5*  5     -3* -3*  4* -4* -3*   7 -7*  7 -7*



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