Kentucky Woman

by Neil Diamond · posted by Spiritgirl33

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+: 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

                 Kentucky Woman


Verse 1:

 7    7  7 -8  -8  -8   -8           
Ken-tuck-y wo-man she shines 

 -6   -6  6    6  -5   5 
with her own kind of light.

 7    7    7  7   -8    
She looks at you once 

 -8 -8 -8   -6    -6   6     6    -5   5
and a day that's all wrong looks all right. 
 
 5  5  -4   -6    
And I love her.  

 -6   6  -5   6   -7
God knows I love her.

Chorus:

 -7   7 -8 -8  8    7  -8  8   -8  -9  8 -8 7 
Ken-tuck-y wo-man. If she gets to know y ou u,  

  7    -8    7  -8  8    7    7 -8 -9 8 -8 7 
She's goin' to own you. Ken-tuck-y wo m an n.  

Verse 2:

Well, she ain't t' kind to 
make heads turn the drop of her name.
But something inside that she's got 
turns you on just the same.
And she loves me. 
God knows she loves me. 

Chorus

Verse 3:

-5  -5    6   -6
I don't want much,  

 7    7   -8      7   -7  -6    6  -6
the good Lord's earth be-neath my feet,

5  -5  6    -6   7   7   -8   7
a gen-tle touch of that one girl

 -7  -6   6   5    -5   6
and life is sweet and good.

 -5    6   -6   6    -7  -7   7    -8
Ain't no doubt Hey, I'm talk-in' 'bout

 -7   7 -8 -8  8    7  -8   8  -8  -9  8 -8 7 
Ken-tuck-y wo-man. If she gets to know y ou u.

  7    -8    7  -8  8    7     7 -8 -9 8 -8 7
she's goin' to own you - Ken-tuck-y wo m an n.

Repeat verse 3

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