(What Did I Do To Be So) BLACK AND BLUE

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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

(What Did I Do To Be So) BLACK AND BLUE
L: Andy Razaf
M: Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks
From: “Ain’t Misbehavin’”
Key: Am

2     -3  -4  4
Cold, emp-ty bed,
-2       -3  -4   4
Springs hard as lead,
2     -3 -4   4
Pains in my head,
-2*   -3  -4   4
Feel like old Ned.
3    -3  2  3
What did I do 
3  -3  3  -3   -3   2
To be so black and blue?

2   -3  -4   4
No joys for me,
-2 -3  -4  4
No com-pa-ny,
2 -3  -4   4
E-ven the mouse 
-2*  -3  -4   4
Ran from my house,
3   -3   2     3
All my life through
3     -3  3   -5*  -5   4
I've been so Black and blue.

2   -3 -4    4
I'm so for-lorn,
-2      -3 -4   4
Life's just a thorn,
2   -3   -4  4
My heart is torn,
-2* -3 -4   4
Why was I born?
3    -3  2 3  3  -3 3
What did I do to be so
-3    -3    2
Black and blue?

4     3*   4  3*
I'm white in-side
3*   4    -3     3  2   3
But that don’t help my case
4      3*  4    3*
‘Cause I can’t hide
4     4 -5 -5*  6    6
What is on my face, oh!

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