Slipping Through My Fingers (Chromatic)

Key of F Major
Range A3 to C5
Notations: none = blow   - = draw   
* = slide button in    . = lower register
___ = sustain/hold   ( ) = blow chord
-( ) = draw chord

-1     -1  2  2*_2*
School-bag in hand,__
2*  3      -3_-3  -3 -3* -3  3  2*   2
she leaves home__ in the ear-ly morn-ing, 
-1 -1   2    2*_2*
wa-ving good-bye__ 
2*   3  -3*-3   3    2* -3_______3
with an ab-sent-mind-ed smile.____ 
-1 -1    2   2* 2*   3 -3___-3
I  watch her go with a surge__ 
-3 -3*  -3   3     2*  2
of that well-known sad-ness, 
-1  -3*_-3* -3*  -3 3   3 
and  I____  have to sit down 
3   2* 2_____
for a  while. 
-1  -1   -3* -3*  -3  -3  3   3   1   1  -3
The feel-ing that I'm los-ing her for-ev-er
-1  -1   -3* -3*  -3 -3 3   3   1   1
and with-out real-ly en-ter-ing her world. 
-1  -1   -3* -3* -3 -3__-3 3   3     -3* -3*   -3
I'm glad when-ev-er  I____ can share her laugh-ter, 
1    1   3  3   2*  2*__2*____
that fun-ny lit-tle girl._____ 

-.3  1    2*      -3 -3  3    3   2*  2*__2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time,__ 
4 -3  2* 2__2  4    -3  2  -1_-1 3____3
I try to cap - ture ev-‘ry min - ute,__
3   2*   -1  1  2*
the feel-ing in it. 
-.3  1    2*      -3 -3  3    3   2*  2*____2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time,__ 
-.3 1 2*   3  -3  3      3  2*  2*_____2*
do  I real-ly see what's in her mind?__ 
4    -3   2* 2___2 4   -3    2  -1_-1  3_3
Each time I  think I'm close to know – ing_ 
3   2*    -1 1    2*
she keeps on grow-ing. 
-.3  1    2*      -3 -3  3    3   2*  2*_2*___ 
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time.___

-1   -1  2   2*___2*
Sleep in our eyes,_
2*  3   -3_-3
her and me___
-3 -3* -3    3    2* 2
at the break-fast ta-ble, 
-1   -  2 2*____2*
bare-ly a-wake,__
-1 -1  2   2*    2*   3 -3__-3__
I  let pre-cious time go by.____ 
-1   -1   2     2*    2*      3    -3___-3
Then when she's gone, there's that old____ 
-3 -3* -3   3 2*   2
mel-an-chol-y feel-ing 
-1  -3*__3* -3*  -3 3     3
and  a____ sense of guilt I
3     2* 2*____
can't de-ny. 
-1  -1   -3*   -3*-3  -3  3   3   1  1   -3
What hap-pened to the won-der-ful ad-ven-tures, 
-1  -1   -3* -3* -3  -3      3   3  1  1
the plac-es  I   had planned for us to go? 
-1    -1   -3* -3*  -3 -3__-3
Well, some of  that we did,__
3   3    -3* -3* -3
but most we  did-n't 
1 1    3 3    2     2____2____
a why, I just don't know._____ 

-.3  1    2*      -3 -3  3    3   2*  2*_2* 
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time,_ 
4 -3  2* 2  2 4   -3  2  1_1 3_3
I try to cap-ture ev-‘ry min-ute,__ 
3   2*   -1  1  2*
the feel-ing in it. 
-.3  1    2*      -3 -3  3    3   2*  2*___2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time,__ 
-.3 1 2*   -3 -3  3      3  2*  2*__2*
do  I real-ly see what's in her mind?_
4    -3   2* 2__2 4   -3    2  -1_-1  3___3
Each time I think I'm close to know – ing__ 
3   2*    -1 -1   2*
she keeps on grow-ing. 
-.3  1    2*      -3 -3  3    3   2*  2*___2*
Slip-ping through my fin-gers all the time.__ 

-1   -1    -3* -3*  -3  -3__-3__3 3     3____3
Some-times  I  wish that I_______ could freeze_
1   1_-3  -3__-3
the pic – ture__ 
-1  -1   -3* -3*  -3  -3  2  3      1  1___1
and save it  from the fun-ny tricks of time._ 
-.3  1    2*      -3 -3* -3*__4___
Slip-ping through my fin-gers.____ 

Interlude:
-.3 1 2*-3 -3 3 3 2* 2* 4 -3 2* 2 4 -3 2 1_1 
3 –(.41) –(.412) 3 –(.412) -1 
-1 2* -(.2.3) 1 2* -3 -3 3 (321) 2* 2*__2*____

-1     -1  2  2*__2*
School-bag in hand,_
2*  3      -3
she leaves home
-3 -3* -3_-3 3  2*__2* 2
in the ear - ly morn - ing, 
-1  -1  2    2*
wav-ing good-bye
2*   3  -3*-3   3    2* -3_______
with an ab-sent-mind-ed smile....