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That Ole Devil Called Love

by Billie Holiday · posted by pagan

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Tab
Slow and bluesy
Link at end of tab, If you want listen to 
Billie Holiday singing the song

 -4   -6    6    -6   6  -6  5
Some one's whisp'rin' in my ear
-5  6   -6  7  -6  4  5   6   -4  4     -3 
I  say, no no  go  a-way, but he don't hear
5   -4  5  -5 -4  5
He follows me around
 -5    -4  5   -7   6   -6
Builds me up, tears me down
-6  -7 -7  -7  -6  -7   -7
I  try my best to shake him 
-4  -6  -6   -6    5 -4
But he just hangs around
 5    -5   6   6 6    6     6   3 -3
It's that ole devil called love again
  6  -6 -7  -7  -7  -6
Gets behind me and keeps
-7 -7  -7  -6    -7  -3  4
Givin' me that shove again
 3  3    5   -4  4   5
Putting rain in my eyes
  5   -4  4   5
Tears in my dreams
 -4  -6   -7  7   6
And rocks in my heart
 5    -5   6   6   6   6  6  6   3  3
It's that sly old son of  a gun again
6   -6   -7 -7   -7 
He keeps tellin' me
 6   -7  -7  -7 -6 -7  -3  4
That I'm the lucky one again
 3  3   5    -4   4    5
But I still have the rain
  5    -4    4     5
Still have those tears
 -2   3    -4   4   4   4
And those rocks in my heart
-4  5   -5   6 -4   6 
Suppose  I  didn't stay
-6  5  -6      -7  -5    -7
Ran a-way......Wouldn't play
 6   -6  7   -6  -5   5  6  5   -3    3
That devil, what  a  potion he would brew
 5   -4  5  -5   -4  5
He'd follow me   around
 -5   -4  5        -7   6  -6 
Build me up.......Tear me down
 -6    -7   -7  -7  -6   -7   -7
'Till I'd  be   so  be- wild-ered
-4  -6  -6   -6   -6  5  -5
I  wouldn't know what to do
  5   -5  6     6    6  6    6    3  3
Might as well, give up the fight again
6  -6   -7   -7    -7    -6  -7  -7
I know darn well, he'll convince me
 -7  -6    -7   -3 -3
That he's right again
  3  3    5    5   -4 4   5
When he sings that siren song
3   3   5   5  -4  4   5
I just got-ta tag  a-long
  6   -6   7  -6 4    5      4
With that ole devil called love
 5    -5   7  -6 4    5      4
It's that ole devil called love...........


To get the timings.. watch Billie sing this classic song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EANWR6djzMY
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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