Stormy Monday Blues

by Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Bob Crowder · posted by WaltP

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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

STORMY MONDAY BLUES
By Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine
And Bob Crowder

C7                                 F7
  It stormed and start-ed rain-in’
  5     6     5    -5  4  -3*4  4
                        C7
I’m as lone-some as a man can be.
-3  4   -5* -5*  -5 -5 -5  4 4-33
F7
Lawd, it stormed and start-ed rain-in’
7     7     7    -6*  -6  -5* -6 5  5
                        C7        B7 Bb7 A7
I’m as lone-some as a man can be.
-3  4   -5* -5*  -5-5 -55  5 -33
  Dm7                              G7
Oh, the way you been treat-in’ me
4    4 -5*5  5   -3   -5*  -5  5
                                  C7 Eb7Ab7Db7  
Well, I’ve real-ized it’s not the same.
5       5   7    -6  -6   -5*  5 -5*-55
C7
  It’s a down-right rot-ten,
  3    3  -5*  -5    5   -5
F7                  C7  
  Low- down  dir-ty shame
  -5* -5*-55 -5  5  5-33
F7
  Lawd, it’s a down-right rot-ten,
  5      5   5  7    -6   -6   5
                   C7 B7 Bb7 A7 
Low-down dir-ty shame.
7    -6* -5* 5  5-33
    Dm7
The  way you treat me,
-3  6-55 5-3  6    5
G7                         C7 (Eb7Ab7Db7)  
  Lawd, I know I’m not to blame
  7    -6* -6* -6  -5* 5  -5* 5

A slightly different version.

T-Bone Walker singing the usual version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemG2821l-o

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