Deep Purple

by Nino Tempo and April Stevens · posted by aussie

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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

  
Words and Music by Mitchell Parish & Peter De Rose

 5   -5    8   5 -5   -5*  5 5*  -5 7  -7*-9
When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden
  8
walls
 7* -7  -10*  -10 9 -7  7  7*  -7 -9  -5
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky
   5*   -5   9   -9-7*-7 7*7  7  -6*-6   6   -5*
Through the mist of a memory you wander back to
-5
me
  -5  5*  5    7    7*-9  -7
Breathing my name with a sigh

(Verse two has the same notes as above)

In the still of the night once again I hold you tight
Though you're gone, your love lives on when moonlight beams
And as long as my heart will beat, lover we'll
10 -9* -9
always meet
 -9  9* 9    7   7*-7   -6
Here in my deep purple dreams
 -9  9* (    7   7*-7   -6
Here in my deep purple dreams

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