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12 Bar/Bright Lights Big City

by Jimmy Reed · posted by dino

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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
 7       7      7  7  8
Bright lights, big city,
 8   8  -8 7 -6    7
Gone to my baby's head
 7     -6     7    8  7   8
Bright ligh---ts, big cit-y
 8   8  -8 7  -6   7
Gone to my baby's head
 8    -8  -8  -8   -8 -8 -8  -8
I'd tried to tell the woman but 
 -8 8  8    8    -8 -8 7  -6  8   7
she doesn't believe a word I sai--d

Go light pretty baby... gonna need my help some day
It's all right pretty baby...gonna need my help some day

You're gonna wish you listened to some of those things I said

Go ahead pretty baby
Oh, honey knock yourself out
Go ahead pretty baby
Oh honey knock yourself out

I still love you baby cause you don't know what it's all about

Bright lights, big city,
Gone to my baby's head
Bright lights, big city
Gone to my baby's head
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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