Kansas City (chromatic)

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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

KANSAS CITY
By: Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller
Wilbert Harrison
Key: C

 1   2   3   4  -3   3 -3   
I'm goin to Kan-sas Cit-y 
 4  -3   4 -3  -3  3  -3  
Kan-sas Cit-y here I come 
 1    2  3   4  -3   3 -3
I'm goin to Kan-sas Cit-y 
 4  -3   4 -3  -3  3  -3
Kan-sas Cit-y here I come 
  3   3  3 -4  -4 -5  -5 -4  -4    3
They got a cra-zy way of lov-ing there 
 3  -3   4  4  -3  3    1
And I'm gon-na get me some 

 1   2  2   3   4    4  -3 -3   3  -3
I'm gon-na be stand-ing on the cor-ner 
   4      -3    3   -3
Twelfth Street and Vine 
 1   2  2   3   4    4  -3 -3   3  -3
I'm gon-na be stand-ing on the cor-ner 
   4      -3    3   -3 
Twelfth Street and Vine 
  3  3  -4  -4  -5 -5 -4 -4
With my Kan-sas Cit-y ba-by 
 3  3 -3  -3  4  -3  -3   3  3   1
And a bot-tle of Kan-sas Cit-y wine 

 3   3   4    -3  3   -3
Well I might take a train 
3   4    -3  3   -3
I might take a plane 
 3   4 4  -3  3   -3
But if I have to walk 
 3  4  4   -3   3   -3
I'm go-in just the same 
 1    2  3   4  -3   3 -3
I'm goin to Kan-sas Cit-y 
 4  -3   4 -3  -3  3  -3
Kan-sas Cit-y here I come 
 3    3  3 -4  -4 -5  -5 -4  -4    3
They got a cra-zy way of lov-ing there 
 3  -3   4  4  -3  3    1
And I'm gon-na get me some

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