12 Bar Blues/Black & Blue

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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

(What did i do to be so)Black & Blue!!!

 +5   -6 -7 +7
Cold, empty bed,
  -5     -6  -7  +7
Springs hard as lead,
 +5   -6 -7  +7
Pains in my head,
 -5   -6  -7  +7
Feel like old Ned.
 +6   -6 +5 +6
What did I  do 
+6 -6 +6  -6    -6  +5
To be so black and blue?

+5  -6  -7  +7
No joys for me,
-5  -6 -7 +7
No com-pa-ny,
+5 -6 -7  +7
Ev-en the mouse 
-5   -6  -7  +7
Ran from my house,
+6  -6  +5    +6
All my life through
 +6   -6  +6
I've been so 
  +8   -8  +7
Black and blue.

+7   -6   +7  -6
I'm white inside,
-6   +7   -6    +6  +5  +6
But that don't help my case.
  +7 -6  +7    -6
Cause I can't hide 
+7   +7 -8 +8  +8    +8
What is on my face, O---h

+5  -6 -7  +7
I'm so forlorn,
 -5     -6  -7  +7
Life's just a thorn,
+5  -6   -7  +7
My heart is torn,
-5   -6 -7  +7
Why was I born?
 +6   -6 +5 +6 +6 -6 +6
What did I  do to be so
 +8   -8   +7
Black and blue?

Just cause your black,
folks think you lack,
They laugh at you and scorn you to
What did i do,to be so black n blue.

When your near they laugh and sneer,
Set you aside,and your denied,
What did i do,to be so black n blue.

How sad i am,each day i feel worse,
My mark of being dark seems to be a curse.

How will it end,aint got no friend,
My only sin is in my skin,
What did i do,to be so black n blue.

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