Down Yonder

by Willie Nelson, Hank Thompson · 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)

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Tab

DOWN YONDER
By: L. Wolfe Gilbert
Willie Nelson, Hank Thompson
Key: Eb
Time: 2/4

 3   -2  -1*   -2  -2*  3   -3* 3 -1*
Down yon-der, some-one beck-ons to me, 
 4   -3*  3*   -3* -4   4   -5* 4  3*
Down yon-der, some-one reck-ons on me. 
-1* -2 -1* 3 -1* -2  -1 -1*-3*-3*
I seem to see a race in mem-o-ry 
-1* -2   -1*   3  -1* -2  -1* -1* -3* 3  -3*
Be-tween the Natch-ez and the Rob-ert E. Lee. 
 -3  -3  -3    3  -2   3   -3  -3   -3
Swan-ee shore, I miss you more and more; 
3   -2 -3* -3*  3* 3   -2
Ev-'ry-day, my mam-my land,
 -3*    3*  3   -2 
you're sim-ply grand 
 3   -2  -1*   -2  -2*   3   -3*  3   -1*
Down yon-der, when the folks get the news, 
  4   -3*  3* -3* -4  4 -5* 4   3*
Don't won-der at the hul-la-ba-loos. 
  -2*    3 -3* -2*  3 -3*
There's Dad-dy and Mam-my, 
  -2*    3  -3*  -2*  3 -3* 
there's Eph-raim and Sam-my, 
 4   -5   -5* -6  -5  -3* -5*
Wait-in' down yon-der for me.

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