The Vacant Chair (chrom)

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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

THE VACANT CHAIR chrom
Hymn
Cathy Mattea
Key: A
Time: 3/4

2    2    2    2 -2*   2    2   -3
We shall meet but we shall miss him, 
  2    2   2   2 -2*  2    -4
There will be one va-cant chair; 
2    2    4* -4  -3 3*  3*  -2*
We shall lin-ger to ca-ress him 
  4*  -4   -3     3* -2*  3*    -3
While we breathe our eve-ning pray’r; 
 -3 -3  -4 -4 -3 -2* 3*   -4
When a year a-go we gath-ered, 
 3*  6 -5*  5*  -4   -3   3*
Joy was in his mild blue eyes, 
-4 -4  -4  -4  -3  -2*  3*  -4
But a gold-en chord is sev-ered, 
 6   6   -5*  4* -3 -2* 2
And our hopes in ru-in lie. 

Chorus 
2    2    2     2 -2*   2    2   -3
We shall meet, but we shall miss him, 
  2    2   2   2  -2* 2    -3
There will be one va-cant chair, 
2    2    4* -4  -3 3*  3*  -2*
We shall lin-ger to ca-ress him 
  4*  -4   -3     3* -2*  3*   -3
While we breathe our eve-ning pray’r.

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