Roll Over Beethoven

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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

Quite Fast Tempo (Tricky !)
Words and Music: Chuck Berry


 -8  7   -8 7   8   8 -8  7  -8  7
Well~~~ I'm a write a little letter
 7   7   8  8  -8 -8 -8 -8 7 8  
Gon-na mail it to my local D J
 7   -8  7  8    8  -8  7  -8  7 
Yes it's a jump-in' little record
7   8   7  -8  7  7  -6
I want my jockey to play
 8    8    8  -8  7  -6
Roll ov - er Bee-tho-ven
6 -6 -6   7   7 7   8  7  7 
I gotta hear it a-gain today
 6   -6   7  7   7     7    8    7
You know my tem-p'ra-tures ris - in
 7  7   -8  -8 -8 -8   7   8 
And a juke box blowin' a fuse
 7    8      7   7   7   7 
My heart's beat-in' rhy-thm
 7   7   8    -8  7  7  7    7   -6 
And my soul keeps a singin' the blues
 8   8   8  -8  7    -6 
Roll ov-er bee-tho~~~ven
 -6   8    7    8   7   7   7
And tell Tchai-kow-sky the news

 8    8  7  7   7     7 
Roll ov-er bee-tho~~~ven
 8    8  7  7   7     7     
Roll ov-er bee-tho~~~ven 
-10   8  7  7   7     7
Roll ov-er bee-tho~~~ven
-10   8  7  7   7     7 
Roll ov-er bee-tho~~~ven
 8    8 -8  -8  -8    6  
Roll ov-er bee-tho~~~ven
 6   -6   7    7  -8   7     8  7 (sus)
And dig these rhy-thm and blues~~~~~~~

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