Strike Up The Band !

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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

STRIKE UP THE BAND!
By George & Ira Gershwin
Tony Bennett
Key: C

 3  -2*   3    -3  -3
Let the drums roll out
 3  -2*  3   -3* -3*
Let the trum-pet call
  3   -2*  3  -4   -4
While the peo-ple shout 
    3   -3  3   4
"Strike up the band"
 4   -4   4   -5   -5
Hear the cym-bals ring
 4   -4   4  -5* -5* 
Call-in' one and all
4  -4   5   6     6
To the mar-tial swing, 
   5   -5  5   -6
strike up the band
  7   -6  6   6  5   6    6  5   6
There is work to be done, to be done
  -6    6 -5  -5 -4 -5   -5 -4 -5
There’s a war to be won, to be won
 6   -5   4  4 -3  4  4 -3  4
Come you son of a gun of a gun, 
 4    6     7
take your stand
 3  -2*  3    -3   -3
Fall in line, yea, bo
 6  -5*  6     7   7
Come a-long, let's go
-6    6   -5    -7   7   6   5
Hey, lead-er, strike up the band!

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