Mean Wife Blues

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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

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Well I got me a woman, 

    5 -5  5  4~

likes to beat me all day,

    5 -5  5  4~

I don't want to keep her,

    5 -5  5  4~

but I can't give her away.

  5 -5  5 -5  6  4,5~

~ = saying "yow".


   I think you can figure out how it goes.  Stretch out the 6 hole blow in the last line.
   The bends are for effect only, not to change the note.
 
   P.S.  My wife doesn't really beat me, and I don't really want to get rid of her.

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound