Tom Dooley (2nd pos)

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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

TOM DOOLEY 2nd pos
The Kingston Trio
Key: G

This song is tabbed on a C diatonic

 -4   -4   -4    5    6  -7  -7 
Hang down your head, Tom Doo-ley, 
 -4   -4   -4    5   6  -6
Hang down your head and cry. 
 -4   -4   -4    5    6  -6  -6
Hang down your head, Tom Doo-ley, 
 -7  -6     6     5-4  5   6
Poor boy, you're bound to die. 

-4 -4 -4  5   6   -7   -7
I met her on the moun-tain. 
-7    -4 -4   5   6   -6 
and there I took her life. 
-6 -4 -4  5   6   -6   -6
I met her on the moun tain, 
-7     -6    6  5 -4 5    6
and stabbed her with my knife. 

 -4   -4   -4    5    6  -7  -7 
Hang down your head, Tom Doo-ley, 
 -4   -4   -4    5   6  -6
Hang down your head and cry. 
 -4   -4   -4    5    6  -6  -6
Hang down your head, Tom Doo-ley, 
 -7  -6     6     5-4  5   6
Poor boy, you're bound to die. 

 
 -4    5  6  -7  -7   
This time to-mor-row, 
This time to-mor-row, 

 -4  -4   5    6   -6
Reck-on where I'll be. 
Reck-on where I'll be, 

-6 -6  -4  -4   5   6    -6  -6
if it hadn’-a been for  Gray-son, 
      in  some lone-some val-ley, 

-7 -7    -6  6  5-4    5   6  
I'd a---been in Ten---nes-see. 
A-hangin' on a- white oak tree. 

-4   -4   -4    5    6  -7  -7 
Hang down your head, Tom Doo-ley, 
 -4   -4   -4    5   6  -6
Hang down your head and cry. 
 -4   -4   -4    5    6  -6  -6
Hang down your head, Tom Doo-ley, 
 -7  -6     6     5-4  5   6
Poor boy, you're bound to die.

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