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Summertime (Janis Joplin version)

by Janis Joplin · 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
SUMMERTIME
By: George & Ira Gershwin, 
    DuBose & Dorothy Heyward
Janis Joplin
Key: Gm
Time: 6/8

|3 -3 -3* -5 7 -7|
|-7* 8 -9  -9* -10* -11|
|11 -10* 11  -9…|
|11 -10* 11  -9…|
|11 -10* 11 -9-9*-98-7*-7|
|-7*-77-6*7-7 -7* 8 -9*|
-9… -9 8 -7*| |8… 8 -7* -7|
-7*-9 9…| |-7*… -7 7 -6*|
|7… -7…| |-7*… 8…|
|-9… -9* -9 8-7*|

-6 -6 7 -5 5   4     -3*…
Sum-mer-time, time, time,
4*…-3*  3  -3*  3   -3* 3…
Child, the liv-in's eas-y.
3    -3*  -5  -5* -5…-5*-5-5*5
Fish are jump-in’ now
-3*  3  -3*  4   -54-3*
And the cot-ton, Lord,
4   -3*   -5-6-5   7  -6 7-6-5
Cot-ton's  high, Lord so high.

-5    7  -5    -5 5-5…
Your dad-dy's rich
5    -3* -6 7 5*  5     5  -3*   3
And your ma’s so good-look-in’, babe.
-3*    4  -3*   4*  4-54-3*
She's look-in’ good now,
 -3  -3* 3  -3* 3  -3* 3  -3*-3*  
Hush, ba-by, ba-by, ba-by, ba-by,
3-23-3*-3-5  -5  -5  -5
Ba-by  N-no, no, no, no, 
 -5*  -5 5-3*3   7    7 7-6*7
Don't you cry, don't you cry.

instrumental break

-5  -3*  5*   -6 7-55-3*
One of these morn-ings 
  4*    4* -3*4-3*   -3* 3   3    3 
You're gon-na rise, rise up sing-ing,
  3    -3* -3*  -5    -5* -5-5*-5-5*5  
You're gon-na spread your   wings, 
 -3*
child,

 3 -3*5-55-3* 5  -3* -3* -5-6-55
And   take,  take to the   sky,
 7    -6  7-6-5
Lord, the sky.
-5 -6  -5   -5  -5
Un-til the morn-ing,
 5 -3* -67 5*    5  -3* -3* 3   3    3    3   
Hon-ey, n-noth-ing's go-in’ to harm you, now
5   5   -5  5 -3* 5  -55-3*55-3*
No, no, no no, no no, no...
3-23-3*-3-5  -5  -5  -5
Ba-by  N-no, no, no, no, 
  7    7 7-6*7
Don't you cry 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFF-BaT0MM&feature=related
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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