Down By The Old Mill Stream

by Mitch Miller, Sesame Street · 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

DOWN BY THE OLD MILL STREAM
By: Tell Taylor
Mitch Miller, Sesame Street
Key: G

 -5   7 -8  -9   8*    8
Down by the old mill stream
 -5*  6  -8   -7   7
Where I first met you
 -4   -5   7   -6*  6
With your eyes of blue
  -5*   6  -6*   6  -5
Dressed in ging-ham too
7  -8   -9   8*  8
It was there I knew
 -5*  6   -8   -7  7
That you loved me true
 7   -6*  7   -7*  7  -6*  7    -8
You were six-teen, my vil-lage queen
8  -8   6   -8    7
By the old mill stream

REPEAT

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