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The House That Built Me

by Miranda Lambert · posted by DownHomeGirl

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How to read this tab — notation key
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Blow note
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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

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I know they say you can’t go home a-gain

+6 +5   +6  +5  +6  +6   -6   +5   -4
I  just had to come back one last time

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Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Ad-am

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But these hand-prints on the front steps are mine

+5  +6     +6   +6 +6   -6  +5   -4   -4  +5
Up those stairs in that lit-tle back bed-room

+5  +6  +5 +6  +5  +6   +6  +6 +5  +6     +6  -6  +5 -4
Is where I did my home-work and I learned to play gui-tar

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And I bet you did-n’t know un-der that live oak

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My fav-‘rite dog is bur-ied in the yard

[Verse]

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[I thought if I could touch this place or feel it

+6   +8  -8   +8  -8  +8  +7  +6    +6   +6  -6
This bro-ken-ness in-side me might start heal-in’

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Ou-t here it’s like I’m some-one else

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I thought that may-be I could find my-self]

 

+6 +6 +5    +6   +6  +6+7  +7    +6    -5  
If I could just come in I swear I'll leave

-5     +5   -5  +5  -5 +5 -5 +5 +6
Won't take noth-in’ but a mem-or-y

+5   +5   -4    +5  -5 +5  +4
From the house that bu-ilt me

+6 +5 +6  +6  +6   +6   +5  +6  -6  -4  +5

Ma-ma cut out pic-tures of hous-es for years

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From Bet-ter Homes and Gard-en mag-a-zine

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Plans were drawn and con-cr-ete poured

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Nail by nail and board by board

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Dad-dy gave life to ma-ma’s dream

Repeat Verse


+6 +6 +5    +6   +6  +6+7  +7    +6    -5  
If I could just come in I swear I'll leave

-5     +5   -5  +5  -5 +5 -5 +5 +6
Won't take noth-in’ but a mem-or-y

+5   +5   -4    +5  -5 +5  +4
From the house that bu-ilt me


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You leave home you move on and you do the best you can

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I got lost in this old world and for-got who I am

Repeat Verse


+6 +6  +5   +6  +6  +6  +7  +7   +6   -5

If I could walk a-round I swear I’ll leave

-5     +5   -5  +5  -5 +5 -5 +5 +6
Won't take noth-in’ but a mem-or-y

+5   +5   -4    +5  -5 +5 +4
From the house that built me

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

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