Locomotive Breath

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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)

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Tab

LOCOMOTIVE BREATH
By Ian Anderson


In the shuf-fl-ing mad-ness
2   2    3  -3  3  -4  -4
Of the loc-o-mo-tive breath,
2   2   2  2 3   2     2
Runs the all time los-er,
2     2   3   -3  -5  -4
Head-long to his death.
-4    -4 -5*  -4   -4
Oh   he feels the pis-ton scrap-ing 
-3-4 -4  6     -5  -4 -3   -3   -4
Steam break-ing on his brow
-5     -4   -3  -3 -3  -332
Old Char-lie stole the han-dle and
-2*  3    3   3    2 3  -3 -3   3    
The train it won’t stop go-ing
-3    -4  -4  6     6   -4 -4
No way to slow down.
-3  3  -4  -3  3 2


He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.
Hes crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees --
Old charlie stole the handle and
The train wont stop going --
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up gideons Bible --
Open at page one --
Old charlie stole the handle and
The train wont stop going --
No way to slow down

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