Ill Wind

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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

ILL WIND
Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler 
Billie Holiday
Key: Bb

-3*   -5   4     3*  3* 3
Blow, ill wind, blow a-way
4*  4   -3* -2* -2
Let me rest to-day
-5      -6 -5* -2*  3  -3*
You're blow-in' me no good
3*  -2
No good

-3* -5   4    3* 3* 3
Go, ill wind, go a-way
4*     4 -3* -2* -2
Skies are oh so gray
-5  -6 -5*  -2*   3  -3*
A-round my neigh-bor-hood
3*   3*    3*  -2
And that's no good

4*     -5 -1  4*  -5  -1
You're on-ly mis-lead-ing
4*  -5   -1    4*  -5  -1
The sun-shine I'm need-ing
-5     -5 -5   6
Ain't that a shame
-5*  -5  -1 -5*  -5  -1
It's so hard to keep up
-5*   -5   -1   -5*  -5   -1
With trou-bles that creep up
-5*  -5  3  3    3
From out of no-where
3       3    -2* -2
Where love's to blame

-3* -5    4    3*  3* 3
So, ill wind, blow a-way
4*  4   -3* -2* -2
Let me rest to-day
-5      -6 -5* -2* 3   -3* 
You're blow-in' me no good
4  -5     4  -5
No good, no good

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