Blackbird (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

BLACKBIRD
By: John Lennon & Paul McCartney
The Beatles
Key: G

  7    7    7    7  7   7   7   -9  -9  
Black-bird sing-ing in the dead of night
 -8    7   -7  -7   -7    7    8   -9 -8
Take these bro-ken wings and learn to fly
-7   -8   7  
All your life
 7   7   7  -7  -8  -7   7   6   -7  7   
You were on-ly wait-ing for this mo-ment 
-8 -7  7
to a-rise

6 -5 5* 5 -4

  7    7    7    7  7   7   7   -9  -9  
Black bird sing-ing in the dead of night
 -8    7   -7  -7   -7    7    8   -9 -8
Take these sunk-en eyes and learn to see
-7   -8   7  
all your life
 7   7   7  -7  -8  -7   7   6   -7  7   
you were on-ly wait-ing for this mo-ment 
-8 -7  7
to be free

  8    7    7     8    7    7
Black-bird fly, Black-bird fly
11 -10 -9  -10  -9 -9  8   -7*   -6   
In-to the light of a dark black night.

7  -8 -8 -8 6 7 -6* -7 7  7  
-6* 7 6 -5*  -5  5* 5 -4

  8    7    7     8    7    7
Black-bird fly, Black-bird fly
11 -10 -9  -10  -9 -9  8   -7*   -6   
In-to the light of a dark black night.

  7    7    7    7  7   7   7   -9  -9  
Black-bird sing-ing in the dead of night
 -8    7   -7  -7   -7    7    8   -9 -8
Take these bro-ken wings and learn to fly
-7   -8   7  
All your life
 7   7   7  -7  -8  -7   7   6   -7  7   
You were on-ly wait-ing for this mo-ment 
-8 -7  7
to a-rise
7   7   7  -7  -8  -7   7   6   -7  7   
You were on-ly wait-ing for this mo-ment 
-8 -7  7
to a-rise
7   7   7  -7  -8  -7   7   6   -7  7   
You were on-ly wait-ing for this mo-ment 
-8 -7  7
to a-rise

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