The Cuckoo (chrom)

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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

THE CUCKOO chrom
English folk song
Key: Em
Time: 3/4

 6   7   6  7  7 -4  -5  -5
The cuck-oo is a fun-ny bird
-4   -3   -4 -5    6
She sings as she flies
  6      7    6   7   -4 -5 -5
She’ll bring you glad tid-ings
 -4     -3  -4  -5  6
She’ll tell you no lies
 6   6    7    7   7   7   -9  -8
She sips from the pret-ty flow-ers
-7  7   -6*  -5     6
To make her voice clear
 6    6     7  6   7    -4  -5
And she’ll nev-er sing cuck-oo
 -5  -4    -3   -4 -5   6
Till the spring of the year

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