I've Got Sixpence (chrom)

by English marching song · posted by WaltP

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+: 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
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Tab

I’VE GOT SIXPENCE chrom
English marching song
Based on American Civil War song
Key: D

-6*  -5  -3   -5    -6*-6* -5  -5 -3   -5
I’ve got six-pence, jol-ly jol-ly six-pence
-6*  -5  -3   -5    -5  -5  -5  5*  -5  6
I’ve got six-pence, to last me all my life
 -3  -3  -5   -5   -5  -6*
I’ve got tup-pence to spend
-5  -4   -4   -4  7
And tup-pence to lend
 6   5*   5*  5*  5*   -5  6  5*  -5
And tup-pence to take home to my wife
5*-5  6     5* -3 7   -6* 6 -5
No friends have I to grieve me
-5  -4  -4 -4  -4   6   -5 -4 5*-5  6
No pret-ty lit-tle girl to de-ceive me
-3  -3 -5  -5 -5 -5 -6*  -5 -4 6  7
I’m as hap-py as a lark, be-lieve me
6  5*5* 5*-56 5*  -5
As I go roll-ing home
 5*  -5   6    -3  -3   -3
Roll-ing home roll-ing home 
 -5   6  -6*   -3  -3   -3
roll-ing home roll-ing home
5* -5    6   6   6   6  -7  7 -6*-7-88*
by the light of the sil-ver-y   moon
-9  -5 -5 -5  -5
hap-py is the day 
 6   -6* 7  -4  -4  -4  -4
when the na-vy gets its pay
-4  5*5*5*-55*-45* -5
and I go roll-ing home

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