hotel california

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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

8  8  8   -8  -8   -8   8     8   8  -8  -8  -8
On a dark des-ert high-way, Cool wind in my hair

  8    8   -8 -8 -8  8    8   8   8   -8    -8  -8 7 -6
Warm smell of co-li-tas, Ris-ing up through the air--

8  -9  8  -8  7   7    8   7 -8  8  8   -8   7    7
Up a-head in the dis-tance I saw a shim-mer-ing light

-7  -8   -8  -8  -8 -8   7  -8     7  -8
My head grew hea-vy,and my sight grew dim

7  8   8  8   -8  -8    8
I had to stop for the night

  8    8    -9   8  8   -9   8
There she stood in the door-way

-7  8    8   8   -8   -8
I heard the mis-sion bell

 6 -8 -8   -8    7  -8 -8  8
And I was think-ing to my-self

  8    8    8  8   8  8    8   -8   -8  -8 7 -6
This could be Hea-ven or this could be  Hell--

  8   8   8  -8 7 -8   8  -6   6    8    -8  7  7
Then she lit up a can-dle And she showed me the way

 -8    -8   7  -8   -8   7   -8  7  -8
There were voi-ces down the cor-ri-dor

-8  8    -8   8     9  -8
I thought I heard them say

chorus-

-9  -9   -9 -9  -9  -9  -9  9 -9 -9 8  8
Wel-come to the Ho-tel Cal--i-for--nia

  8  8  8   -8  -8     8   8   8  -8   -8
Such a love-ly place, Such a love-ly place (background)

  7  -8 -8   7  7
Such a love-ly face

  8  -9 -9  -9  -9  -9 -9 -9   9 -9 -9 8  8
Plen-ty of room at the Ho-tel Cal-i-for--nia

-8 8  8   -8  -8  -8 8  8   -8  -8
An-y time of year,An-y time of year (background)

-8   -9  -9   8   8  -8  -9   -9   8  8
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next verses the same except fo the last line

 8   8   8   8  8     8  
But you can nev-er leave

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