M-O-T-H-E-R

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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

M-O-T-H-E-R
(A Word That Means the World To Me)
W: Howard Johnson
M: Theodore Morse
Eddy Arnold
Key: Eb

-3* 3 3*  -3  -3*  -1*  -2
M  is for the mil-lion things
1    -1* -1
She gave me,
-3* 3*   2  -2  -3*
O  means on-ly that
3*     1    3*  3
She’s grow-ing old
-1*-1* -1 -1*  -2    -1*  -2
T  is for the tears were shed
-2*  3 -3*
To save me,
-2 3  -3 -3*   4   -3  3  -2*  -2
H is for her heart of pur-est gold
-3* 3  3*  -3  -3*  -1*
E  is for her eyes with 
-2     1     -1* -1
love-light shin-ing.
-2 -2    2     -2  -3*
R mean right, and right
-2      3  3*  3
She’ll al-ways be,
-2*  -2* -2 -1* -2* -2*
Put them all to-geth-er,
-2    -1*   -3* 3
They spell MOTH-ER,
3  -2    3   3*   -3*   4  -3*-5*
A word that means the world to me.

REPEAT

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