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When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer

by B.B. King · posted by WaltP

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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
WHEN MY HEART BEATS LIKE A HAMMER
B.B. King
Key: C

          C
 5   5    6    6   6   6   5    5  -3  5   5
When my heart gets to beat-in’ like a ham-mer
 
 5  5   -6   6   5   5    5
And my eyes get full of tears
          F7
 5   5   -5*   -5* -5* -5* 5    5  -3  5   5
When my heart gets to beat-in’ like a ham-mer
                          C7
 5  5   -6  -5*  5   5    5
And my eyes get full of tears
                G7                 f7
 7  -6 -6  -6   -6   -6  -6  6   -6 7
You on-ly been gone twen-ty four hours 
                               C7
 8  -7   7    7   7 -5*  5     5
But it seems like a mil-lion years

Now if I ever mistreated you baby
You know I didn't mean no harm
Oh if I ever mistreated you baby
God knows I didn't mean no harm
You know I'm just a little country boy baby
And I was raised right down on the cotton farm

Oh you give me so much trouble baby
Baby I don't know what to do
Oh you give me so much trouble baby
Baby I don't know I don't know what to do
I ain't got nothing I ain't got nothing now baby
Baby it's all over and it's all on account of you
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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