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Do You Hear What I Hear? (Chromatic)

by Noel Regney & Gloria Shayne · posted by EarthDogHarpin

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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
Key of C Major  Range: Bb3 – C6
Notation: none = blow  - = draw  * = button in
. = lower register hole on 14 or 16 h chromatic
(1234) = play together as chord

4(sus)  -3*  4(sus)
4(sus)  -3*  4(sus)

 1   -1   2     2   2  2   -1  -1   2
Said the night wind to the lit-tle lamb,  
 1  1    3   3   4  3    4  4  7  7  8  7
"Do you see what I  see? 
2    2  2   2   2   -1  -1   2
Way  up in the sky, lit-tle lamb, 
1  1     3    3   4 3    4  4  7  7  8  7
do you  see  what I see?

3  -3   2  2    3  -3   3  -2   2 
A star, a star, dancing in the night,  
2   -1  1   1  -1  1  -1  2
with a tail as big as  a kite,  
2   -1  1   1  -2  2 -1 1 
with a tail as big as a kite.” 

-.3*  1

 1   -1  2  2   2    2  2   -1 -1    2
Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy, 
 1  1    3    3   4 3     4  4  7  7  8  7
"Do you hear what I hear?
2  2    2       2   2   -1  -1    2
Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy, 
1  1    3    3   4 3     4  4  7  7  8  7
Do you hear what I hear?
 
3 -3    2 2     3   -3 3    -2  2 
A song, a song, high a-bove the tree, 
2   -1 1     1  -1  1  -1  2
with a voice as big as the sea, 
2   -1 1     1  -2  2  -1  1 
with a voice as big as the sea." 

-.3*  1

1    -1  2  2     2   2  2  -1  -1  2
Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king, 
1   1   3    3    4 3     4  4  7  7  8  7
"Do you know what I know?
2  2    2 2    2    -1  -1  2
In your palace warm, mighty king, 
1  1   3    3    4 3     4  4  7  7  8  7
Do you know what I know?

3 -3     2 2      3 -3    3  -2  2 
A Child, a Child, shivers in the cold; 
2   -1 1     1   -1 1  -1   2
let us bring Him silver and gold, 
2   -1 1     1   -2 2   -1  1 
let us bring Him silver and gold." 

-.3*  1

1    -1  2    2  2   2  2   -1  -1 2
Said the king to the people ev-‘ry-where, 
 1  1   3  3    4 3    4  4  7  7  8  7
"Listen to what I say!
2    2   2      2   2    -1  -1 2
Pray for peace, peo-ple, ev-‘ry-where, 
1   1   3  3    4  3    4  4  7  7  8  7
lis-ten to what I  say! 

3   -3     2   2      3     -3  3  -2  2
The Child, the Child, sleep-ing in the night, 
2  -1   1     1  -1  1    -1  2
He will bring us goodness and light, 
2  -1   1     1  -2  2    -1  1
He will bring us goodness and light."

Optional ending:
(2xxx6)(-1xxx-5)(1xx4)(1xx4)(-2xxx-6)(2xxx6)
  He     will    bring  us    good - ness

(-1xxx-5)(1xx4) (1234) (1234) (-.3* -3*) (1234)  
  and    light."

A Little History:
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a Christmas song written in October 1962 with lyrics by Noel Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker. The pair were married at the time, and wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Noel Regney wrote the lyrics for the song, while Gloria Shayne Baker composed the Christmas carol's music. 
Regney was inspired to write the lyrics "Said the night wind to the little lamb, 'Do you see what I see?' " and "Pray for peace, people everywhere," after watching babies being pushed in strollers on the sidewalks of New York City. Baker stated in an interview years later that neither could personally perform the entire song at the time they wrote it because of the emotions surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis.
For more on this song, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Hear_What_I_Hear%3F
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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