As the Bottle Runs Dry

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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

  5   5   5       -5   -5    -5   5     5  5  -4
Standing on the shore with this maiden in my arms
-4 5   5  5  -5    -5      5     5   -4  5
A bottle of wine there's ships floating by
5    5 5    5  -5  -5   -5  5   5   5   -4-4
And behind my back all the sailors are singing
 -4   5   5 -5  -5  -5   5 5    5 -4  5
About Amsterdam or some other bloody town
  5     5       5    5    -5 -5  5 5   5  -4-4
Where they've been last year or many years ago
 -4         5   5   5-5     -5   5    5      5-45
Where the ships indicates where we glimpsed through
 5   5     5  -4    4    4  4  4   5  5  5 -4
And tough maidens were plenty and horny as hell
-4       5    5   5  -5   -5   5 5 5  -4    5
And the wine was so much that nobody could Tell
5    5 5    4   4    4  -5   5   5  -4
And we all sang as the boat was sinking

Chorus:

  5   5    5   -5-5    5    5  5     6
Bring us more women, bring us more wine
 5     5  5    -5-5  -5 -5   5   5 -4    5
We'll become violent as the bottle runs dry
  5   5    5   -5-5    5    5  5     6
Bring us more women, bring us more wine
 5     5  5    -5-5  -5 -5   5   5 -4    5
We'll become violent as the bottle runs dry

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