Uncle Salty (slant harp)
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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.
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Uncle Salty told me stories of a lonely
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baby with a lonely kind of life to lead
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Her mammy was lusted, Daddy he was busted
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they left her to be trusted till the orphan bleeds. But
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when she cri-ed at night, no one ca-me
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and when she cried at night, went in-sa-n-e
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Uncle Salty told me when she was just a baby
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that she'd get by and maybe someday she'd see
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but soon she found her mother's love for all the others
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the pushers and the shovers was the life to lead. Well
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when she cri-ed at night, no one ca-me
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and when she cried at night, went insane ahhhh
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oooh, it's a sun-n-y da-y outside my win-do-w (x2)
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oooh, oh yeahhhhh
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ooooh, oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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now she's doin’ any for money and a-plenty
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a sailor with a penny or two or three
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hers is the cunning for men who come a-runnin'
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they all come for fun and it seems to me that
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when she cri-ed at night, no one ca-me
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and when she cried at night, went insane
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oooh, it's a sun-n-y da-y outside my win-do-w (repeat/fade)