The Last Rose of Summer

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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


  4  -4   5   7 -7   -6 6  6   5
'Tis the last rose    of  sum-mer
I'll not leave thee, thou lone one
   So   soon  may     I   fol-low 

4 -4 5 6 5   -4    4   4
Left bloom-  ing   a- lone
 To  pine    on   the stem
When friend-ships de- cay
 
 4    -4   5     7 -7 -6 6  6    5
All   her love-   ly   com- pa- nions
Since the love-   ly   are sleep-ing
And  from love's shin- ing cir- cle 

4 -4 5 6 5 -4    4    4
 Are  fad- ed   and  gone
 Go  sleep thou with them
The  gems  drop  a-  way

6 5   7  -7 -6    6    6   5
 No flow-er of   her kind-red
Thus  kind- ly    I  scat-ter 
When true hearts lie with-ered 

6 5  7 -7  -6   6  -6 -7 7
 No rose-  bud  is  nigh
Thy leaves o'er the bed
And fond  ones  are flown

 4    -4    5   -7 7 -6 6   6   5
 To   re- flect back  her blush-es
Where thy mates  of   the gar-den
   Oh      who  would in- ha- bit 

4 -4  5 6 5   -4   4   4
 Or    give  sigh for sigh
Lie   scent- less and dead
This  bleak world  a- lone?

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