Lean Baby

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+: 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

LEAN BABY
By: Roy Alfred & Billy May
Frank Sinatra
Key: F

-3* -3  -2  1  -4  -3*  3*
My lean ba-by tall and thin
 -3*  -3  -2  1  -2  3*   -2   3
Five feet sev-en of bones and skin
 3*  -3   4   -3*  -3 -2  1  -4   -3*  3*
But when she tells me may-be she loves me
-2 -2  -2 -2  -2  -2 -2 -2  1   2  -2
I feel as mel-low as a fel-low can be
 -3*  -3  -2  1   -4   -3*  3*
She's so skin-ny she's so drawn
-3*   -3    -2   1   -2    3*   -2    3
She stands side-ways you think she's gone
 3*  -3   4   -3*  -3 -2 1 -4  -3*  3*
But when she calls me ba-by I feel fine
-2   -2   -2    -2  -2   -2
To think she's fran-tic-‘lly, 
-2 -2   1    2   -2
ro-man-tic-‘lly mine

 -2    3    3   -2   -1    1  -1
She's slen-der, but she's ten-der
-2    3   3   -2   -1   1  -1
She makes my heart sur-ren-der
 3  -3  -3   3     2  -1  2   -1    2
And ev-‘ry night, when I hold her tight
 3   4    4  4   4
The feel-ing is nice 
3   -3   3 -3* 4  -3     3
my arms can go a-round twice
-3* -3  -2  1  -4   -3* 3*
My lean ba-by she's so slim
2  -3*    -3    -2  1  -2   3* -2 -2 3
A broom-stick's wid-er but not as trim
 3*  -3   4    -3*  -3  -2  1   -4 -3* 3*
And when she starts to kiss me then I know
-2 -2  -2  -2   -2  -2  -2
I love her so, I'll nev-er, 
-2  1   2   3  -2
Ev-er, let her go

REPEAT

Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound