It's My Mother's Birthday Today
by Eddie Lisbona/Tommie Conner · posted by harmusman
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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
- < or *
- Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)
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Its My Mother’s Birthday Today..........
Key G ¾ time
-1 -1 1< -1 2 -2< 3 -2<~~~
It’s/my moth-er’s/birth-day to-/day--/
~ 2 1< 2 4 -4 4 -4 -3 -2 2~~
- I’m on my/way with a/love-ly bou-quet—/
~ -1 -1 1< -1 2 -2< 3 -2<~~
- for/me it’s the/hap-pi-est/date--/
~ 2 1< 2 4 -4 4 -4 -4 -4
- I won’t be/late at her/old cot-tage/
3~~~~~~ 3 -5 4 4 -4 -4 -3
Gate---/- I’ll/greet her with a /kiss for/
-3 3 -2< -3 3 3
That I know she/yearns and/
6 -5 -5 5< 5< -4 -3 -4
-then I’ll say “God/bless you man-y/
4 6 -4 -3 -1 -1 1< -1
hap-py re-/turns” these/ro-ses will/
2 -2< 3 -2<~~~~~ 2 -1< 2
soon fade a-/way---/- but she will/
4 -4 4 -4 -3 -4 -5 -5 -5<
know what they/mean to con-/vey /for it’s/
6 4 -3 2 -2< -4 3~~~~~~~~~~
my moth-er’s/birth-day to-/day---/--- //