Hold Back The Tears

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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

HOLD BACK THE TEARS
By: Neil Young
Key: F

-6  -6  6  -5     5
Hel-lo, my old friend.
 -3   -5  5   5   5    6  -3*
It's good to see you smil-ing.
   7     7  6   6   -5  -5
You've been a-round so long, 
 5    5   5   -3
you must be strong.
-6  -6   6  -5 5  -5  5
And sin-gle life real-ly 
-4   5     6    -3*
has it’s fine points,
  7     7    -6  -6   6   6
Like friends to help you out 
 -5     -5   5 5 -3
when things go wrong.

[Chorus]

 -6   -6  -5   -6     5    -6     7  -6 -55
Hold back the tears that you've been cry-in'.
 -6  -6  -6    6     5   5   -5 5 5 6 -3*
Push off the fears when they come a-round.
 -6   -6  -5   -6     5   -6  -6 -6 -5-3*
Hold back the tears, and keep on try-ing.
 -6 -6   -6   7   -6   5  -3
Just a-round the next cor-ner 
-3  5   -5   5  -3*  -3 3  -2
may be wait-ing your true love.


Two lying fools,
And then four cryin' eyes,
Counting on one another to survive.
Crazy love must surely have this pain,
If getting up means going down again.


[Chorus]

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