Detroit 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)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

DETROIT CITY
By: Danny Dill & Mel Tillis
Key: C

 -1    2   2   2  2    3   3  3    2   -1  1
Last night I went to sleep in De-troit Cit-y 
 2 -2    3   -3  -3   3 
and I dreamed a-bout the 
-3   3    3    -2   2
cot-ton fields and home 
3    -3  -3  -3  3   3  -2  
I dreamed a-bout my moth-er 
 2   -2   3  3  3  -3   3    2   1
dear old pa-pa sis-ter and broth-er 
 1  1   -1    2  -2*  3   -3 
and I dreamed a-bout the girl 
 -2*  -2*   3    2  -2  1*  -1
who`s been wait-ing for so long 

(Chorus) 
2  2 -1* -1   1 -3 -3  3*  3  -2
I wan-na go home I wan-na go home 
3   3 -3  2 -1* -1   1
Oh how I wan-na go home 

 2     2     2    2   3  3  3    2   -1  1
Home folks think I`m big in De-troit Cit-y 
 2   -2   3   3     3  3  -3
from the let-ters that I write 
 3     3   -2    2
they think I`m fine 
 3  3  -3 -3  -3   3  3 -2
but by day I make the cars 
2-2  3   3 3 -3  3  2 1
by night I make the bars 
1  -1  2  -2*   3    -3  -2*  2   -1    3  
if on-ly they could read be-tween the lines 


2  2 -1* -1   1 -3 -3  3*  3  -2
I wan-na go home I wan-na go home 
3   3 -3  2 -1* -1   1
Oh how I wan-na go home

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