Smiles

by Judy Garland, Benny Goodman · posted by WaltP

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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

SMILES
W: J. Will Callahan
M: Lee S. Roberts
Judy Garland, Benny Goodman
Key: Ab

-1*   -2     3    -2    3  3* -3*-3*
There are smiles that make us hap-py,
3*     3    3*     3   3* -3*  4
there are smiles that make us blue;
4     -4    4     -5    6  -5  5
there are smiles that steal a-way 
-4   4     4   -4  4  -5    4
the tear-drops as the sun-beams 
3*   -3* 3  -2  -3* 
steal a-way the dew.
4      4*  -5*     5  -5*  5
There are smiles that have a 
-5*  4   -3* -3*  3*  -3*  4   
ten-der mean-ing that the eyes 
-4  4  -4  4    3* -2
of love a-lone may see, 
-2   3    3*    3   -3*  3*   3   3*
and the smiles that fill my life with 
4    4     4* -5    -5*   4*  -3*  -2  3  3*
sun-shine are the smiles that you give to me.

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