The Prisoner's Song

by Robert & Guy Massey · posted by harmusman

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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

Here for "Remington" and all is this American Civil war folk song 
as per tabbs by harplov1 "Prisoners Lament" but with lyrics.

 6  6  7   4 -4   5  -4  4   -5  -5
Oh, I wish I had someone to love me,
 -7 -6  5   5   -5   5   -4
Someone to call me their own.
 6  6  7   4 -4    5 -4  4   -5   -5
Oh, I wish I had someone to live with
  -5   -5    -7  -6  5 5   -4 4
'Cause I'm tired of livin' alone.

Same melody for the following verses.

2 Oh, please meet me tonight in the moonlight,
  Please meet me tonight all alone,
  For I have a sad story to tell you,
  It's a story that's never been told

3 I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow,
  Leaving my poor darling alone,
  With the cold prison bars all around me
  And my head on a pillow of stone.

4 Now I have a grand ship on the ocean,
  All mounted with silver and gold,
  And before my poor darlin' would suffer,
  Oh, that ship would be anchored and sold.

5 Now if I had the wings of an Angel
  Over these prison walls I would fly,
  And I'd fly to the arms of my poor darlin',
  And there I'd be willing to die.

Yours Harmusman